Petroleum Piracy with Blowhard Joe

you can afford expensive gas but not a tesla?

Thank you for speaking up. You owe me gas money

used EVs are only $5k; if you can't afford that, ask oil war bush for gas money.

You are giving that man too much credit. I highly doubt he is that self aware.

True, he's just the puppet, there are others behind the scenes making the decisions and telling him what to say. That's why he always has a list of who to call on when in front of the reporters and why he always says "I'm going to be in trouble if I keep answering questions" when he keeps going.

Don't forget the $1400 stimulus, the child tax credit, creation of thousands of clean energy jobs, commitment to infrastructure, commitment to vaccinations and making people healthy, adding sight, hearing, and dental to Medicare, rejoining our international communities in both health and climate organizations, Your meme is filled with generalization that are not even true.

So tell me, how is the cult of Trump coping today?

How are you coping that Trump will always be the 45th president, no matter how much you cry?

How am I coping with Biden being the POTUS? Pretty good actually. Thanks for asking.

Good luck him lasting 4 years without dying. Maybe your affirmative action vp can have a shot at ruining America. As Willie Brown knows, she can suck it up!

Hey, look on the bright side, if anything does happen, you'll have President Harris in office. Either way its a win because Trump is not in office. Nothing else matters. Not even your salty rants.

History would be made! The first prez put in by affirmative action after sucking her way to the top!

At least she got further than Stomy Daniels.

And TDS award goes to ^

so many stupid conservatives really thought reinstatement would happen.

Mean like the stupid liberals who thought Trump would be booted for Hillary after the Putin collusion delusion hoax?

is THAT what the pillow guy promised?

Pillow who? Good luck with the strawman arguments, chum. She still ain't anyone's president.

mike lindell spoke about that?

Trillions of extra debt - to further bankrupt the country so that China can purchase us. Child tax credits that cost taxpayers money... Clean energy jobs that can't keep Texas from having rolling blackouts, that have government officials in California telling people to not plug in their cars. Roads, bridges, and transportation routes were the WORST when Obama was in office and lied about all of the "shovel ready" jobs - but glad to see Biden is in charge and will handle things like Obama did right? Commitment to Vaccines that weren't fully tested which means the people were the lab rats this time, not actual lab rats. Making people healthy...perhaps you read up some studies that show high concentrations of obesity in publically funded households.

I have to applaud the hearing sight and dental additions. Good job!

Global Climate change is also an unmeritable science created by "green energy" backers. Always has been always will be. The things we do in the United States have very little impact because the rest of the first world nations aren't doing their part on pollution. When China and Muslims make up a population that beats us 6/1... The problem is over there, not here. We have the cleanest air and water we have ever had - save for Democrat ran cities. Where oddly polluted water and air seems to reside most.

Your response to the meme is full of poor decisions made by democrat tardbells.

"Child tax credits that cost taxpayers money... "

it's better than the public money going to the military industrial complex, which it's still doing. this is grasping at straws because most other countries have child tax credit, and it barely changes the total tax amount compared to the military industrial complex.

"Roads, bridges, and transportation routes were the WORST when Obama was in office and lied about all of the "shovel ready" jobs - but glad to see Biden is in charge and will handle things like Obama did right?"

our infrastructure has been declining since eisenhower was president, and even then the interstate highway & suburbia is responsible for the death of privately-run railroad/streetcar companies.

"Clean energy jobs that can't keep Texas from having rolling blackouts, that have government officials in California telling people to not plug in their cars"

i mentioned suburbia earlier. other countries don't have this problem due to not having to distribute electricity in every square centimeter of their soil.

"Vaccines that weren't fully tested which means the people were the lab rats this time, not actual lab rats."

eyyy scared of needles moment

"Making people healthy...perhaps you read up some studies that show high concentrations of obesity in publically funded households."

households everywhere are publicly funded in this nation due to the ponzi scheme that is "urban sprawl." no private industry is going to pay for their sewage/electricity. said houses are also car-dependent households, leading to a lifestyle that promotes obesity

"Global Climate change is also an unmeritable science created by "green energy" backers"

eyyy i'm willing to bet 1000 USD that global climate change is real, and that this year will be one of the hottest on record. hope you can put your money where your mouth is

"The things we do in the United States have very little impact because the rest of the first world nations aren't doing their part on pollution"

that's not a valid excuse

"We have the cleanest air and water we have ever had - save for Democrat ran cities"

this is because cities are car-dependent and don't have the money or the economic stability to change that as a result of... well... car-dependence

"Your response to the meme is full of poor decisions made by democrat tardbells"

every problem you mentioned can be attributed to our politicians who have successfully given more money to israel than our total amount of truck drivers.

You know Berkshire Hathaway is currently running all the oil we need through trains... You know that company that Warren Buffett (a huge democrat) owns?

Global change brought on by people isn't real. Climate change as part of a natural life cycle of the Earth? Sure I can get behind that. I'm pretty sure our climate is changing - but it ain't because of what we are or aren't doing.

We have only roughly 5 thousand years worth of recorded data in some form - given enough observation - we would see our climate change happened before without cars and factories.

Or do you forget in the early 2000s how it was called Global Warming? The scientists that are peddling "climate change" now are the ones that said our polar ice caps would melt by 2020. We got things so hot that the ice caps would melt. Then - after 6 years of colder temperatures and unseasonable snow.... Oh, guys we need to call this Global Climate change instead.

If their science couldn't predict accurately the polar ice caps melting because of the warming we did - I'm not going to believe them now either. They have been paid by companies to provide results that peddle what the company is selling. They are sales reps and you're the sucker customer.

"You know Berkshire Hathaway is currently running all the oil we need through trains... You know that company that Warren Buffett (a huge democrat) owns?"

i'm no fan of the oil industry, but of course they're using trains because trains are the logical thing for freight and logistic companies to use. of course the oil industry depends on trains for transport because the same thing can be said for the agriculture industry, the cement industry, and even the auto industry.

"but it ain't because of what we are or aren't doing."

eyy oh no the billion mini volcanoes called "cars" we use daily have nothing to do with the temperatures rising at faster rates than if we didn't exist at all. i know global warming or climate change or whatever can be used to virtue signal or guilt-trip by people who aren't really interested in real solutions. however, i'm interested in real solutions.

"Or do you forget in the early 2000s how it was called Global Warming?"

semantics

"They are sales reps and you're the sucker customer"

eyyy 2nd person. the weapon of the weak.

"They have been paid by companies to provide results that peddle what the company is selling"

the same can be said about the oil industry
https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidblackmon/2021/07/03/exxonmobil-employs-lobbyists-who-knew/?sh=6612989f35ec

So when they, the scientists, scientifically say that the ice caps will melt by 2020 and they give it a scientific name of "Global Warming"...THEN earth produces itself unseasonable winter weather that arrives early and stays late a few years in a row.... Those same scientists THEN say it's actually global climate CHANGE because the results are nowhere in the ball park of their expectations....

That's just semantics???? No it's not. Science is not semantics. If you peddle a global warming conspiracy theory - that would work to melt our ice caps by 2020 - then 5 years later change the name of the problem to something else and abandoned the information Al Gore got on board with... That isn't semantics. It's called lying.

Until Humanity has observed a few hundred thousand years of history with the capability to properly record data -- global warming and us being the cause is just a theory.

The fact of the matter is -- we have done next to NOTHING since Al Gore brought an inconvenient truth to the world... And here we are, not underneath water because of melted ice caps. In fact - we've done MORE harmful things since. There are more cars than 20 years ago, more people, more factories, more electrical grids, and we are not under water from ice caps melting.

That isn't semantics, those are results. The results are that the scientists were idiots that peddled this stuff. Paid for by big energy companies - who are smart and realize energy costs money. If they control the energy of tomorrow - they control the money of tomorrow. Simple as that.

lol al gore didn't invent global warming

"Paid for by big energy companies - who are smart and realize energy costs money. If they control the energy of tomorrow - they control the money of tomorrow."

eyyy let's conveniently forget about the exxon lobbyism thing i posted, shall we?

"THEN earth produces itself unseasonable winter weather that arrives early and stays late a few years in a row.... Those same scientists THEN say it's actually global climate CHANGE because the results are nowhere in the ball park of their expectations...."

lol caps somebody mad. still doesn't change the record high temperatures we receive monthly

A natural cyclical lifecycle of the planet actually would explain that perfectly.

"A natural cyclical lifecycle of the planet actually would explain that perfectly."

yes, plants consume carbon. but not that much carbon

I'm also interested in future technology of vehicles.... But mainly for me it's safety of the people in them and not about safety of a global pattern we aren't impacting. I'm all about the Johnny Cab & 20 years from now, driving a vehicle will almost be a thing of the past.

People are faulty robots being asked to perform actions at a peak performing robot level with driving and controlling a vehicle. A network of interconnected AI driving vehicles would reduce vehicle accidents down to nearly nothing. Which would preserve human life - reduce insurance costs for vehicles, and reduce fuel used as there wouldn't be traffic jams wasting gas.

"A network of interconnected AI driving vehicles would reduce vehicle accidents down to nearly nothing"

it would also be nowhere near as efficient as a simple train; even if powered by batteries. trains have been autonomous since the late 1900s and can use electricity without large lithium mines.

The US should definitely look into having high speed magnetic super trains. Then say no.

Only thing about that is you have to then produce that much more electricity. Which electric wind turbines and solar panels aren't going to produce. Which then means we would have to have various other electricity producing items which turn us to nuclear energy - which isn't clean. It's a horrendously biproduct producing method - with no real safe means to really dispose of the waste.

Catch 22 - but oddly enough the places with the most train transports have higher crime rates, dirtier streets (Chicago New York San Francisco Cleveland to name a few in the US) and declining economies. Trains are nice places for a criminal to have a captive audience. Mugging, battery, bullying, and crimes of sexual nature seem to occur in these cities - that use trains...

more on driverless cars

recently, an oil pipeline was hacked by russians. now, let's say a central computer database was controlling every driverless car in the country (because that'd be how it work for efficiency). what if said database got hacked with relative ease?

if a driverless train database got hacked, it wouldn't be that bad due to the restrictive nature of trains and how they distance each other apart. however, if driverless cars got hacked, there would be pileups on every road in an entire economic region.

driverless cars also don't solve the fatal car problem of congestion. we can make them battery powered, and take the human error potential away, but that doesn't mean traffic jams will magically disappear.

not to mention, if we're gonna take the fun human element out of driving a ferrari at high speed and replace it with a boring pod car with 1/200th of the capacity of a subway train, or less than half the capacity of a trolleybus at best, what the hell is the point, and why are we pouring taxpayer money into a pipe dream?

"The US should definitely look into having high speed magnetic super trains"

maglev trains are unfeasible in most places compared to conventional rail.

"Only thing about that is you have to then produce that much more electricity. Which electric wind turbines and solar panels aren't going to produce"

electric trains are capable of using the electricity far more efficiently than electric cars, especially since most americans drive alone. even with driverless cars, a group of driverless cars carrying 1000 people takes more space and uses more power than a japanese bullet train carrying 1000 people.

i should also mention that i'm somewhat opposed to driverless cars because of what i like to call the "robot takeover," which describes my worries and skepticism in regards to robots replacing human jobs. maybe i'm dreaming because i've seen too many terminator movies. however, do note that truth is stranger than fiction.

"but oddly enough the places with the most train transports have higher crime rates, dirtier streets (Chicago New York San Francisco Cleveland to name a few in the US) and declining economies"

eyyyy meanwhile Tokyo has no crime, no grime, and the best public transport in the world. That's without mentioning European cities. This is because cities in America in general are terrible; Even places like Omaha, St. Louis, and Des Moines have the worst crime statistics, and these places don't have a simple light rail. And most of the places you mentioned have a fractional amount of rail transit compared to other first world countries. San Francisco's total streetcar length is fractional compared to the length of Warsaw's. Cleveland's metro rail length is tiny compared to London's. Meanwhile, Chicago and New York still have massive highways that go to more places than the subway. And none of these places have world-class intercity rail (with the exception of New York, debatably).

"Trains are nice places for a criminal to have a captive audience. Mugging, battery, bullying, and crimes of sexual nature seem to occur in these cities - that use trains..."

again, they occur in almost all if not every american city. not to mention that crimes happen more often occur against people walking on the sidewalk because downtown car traffic is terrible and there is no streetcar/bus service that replaces it.

the whole "trains cause crime" line is a fallacy created by the automobile industry created with the intention of selling cars.

just realized after the fact that st. louis does have 2 light rail lines. still not on the same scale as its car dependency, however, since the total length in miles is tiny compared to amsterdam's.

Tokyo has no crime? Wow Tokyo solved crime... Lol

by having very little poverty rates, tokyo has almost no crime. this is because everyone has equal access to transportation

https://www.lingo2word.com/lingodetail.php?WrdID=327507

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/12/23/train-cars-carrying-crude-oil-derail-and-burn-north-of-seattle.html

Please, tell me again that trains are safer than pipelines? This is but one example, there are hundreds out there. Sure, a pipeline might leak every once in a while, but trains go through our neighborhoods, cities, and towns. When they go up they take out the entire area.

they aren't safer than pipelines, and i never said they were. They are safer than tanker trucks, and they are cheaper than pipelines. I usually advocate for passenger trains because they are safer than cars. In this situation, i was pointing out that the oil industry uses rail for a lot of the same reasons other industries use trains. In some cases, pipelines work better. Sometimes they don't. This is wear trains transporting oil have their niche

It's a shame the Keystone XL project was cancelled by Biden then.

the problem with that pipeline is that it went through peoples' lands.

Where do you get this stuff? Do you make it up or do you get it from right wing propaganda sources? And what is wrong with green energy? Do you feel that gas and oil emissions are better for our planet?

Trillions in debt... You did see the price tags on the recovery bills right? That's a fact. Look it up. Child Tax credits are funded by United States citizens and the taxes they pay. Also a Fact. Look it up.

"So China can buy us" is a theory - that's the nature of a theory, you make up in your mind a prediction of things to come.

Texas did have blackouts due to Windmills freezing over - that is a fact. Look it up. Government officials in California are actually asking their citizens not to plug in their electric cars. That is a fact. Look it up.

Part of Obama's run for office was Shovel Ready Jobs - to get our countries infrastructure rebuilt. He literally campaigned about how bad the roads were and that he would fix them with those jobs. Those jobs weren't created and our roads got worse and worse during his 8 years of Office. That is a fact. Look it up.

The normal testing of vaccines is a process that usually takes 10-15 years of research and then alpha tests on lab rats - Beta tests on lab rats - then finally human trials that have to be FDA approved before EVER hitting the market. Or do you not recall when everyone scorned Trump for the fast production of vaccines? Vaccination to market time being an average of 10-15 years is a FACT. Look it up.

I will admit - my obesity to welfare item is indeed "made up" in that I haven't researched it passed my 25 years of being an adult and knowing a lot of people on welfare that seem to be fat and unhealthy. It's not made up per say - just personal observations.

1.8 Billion Muslims + 1.4 Billion Chinese (not even taking into account the slaves china owns) = 3.2 Billion People. Which actually has them outnumbering the population of the United States by a 9/1 ratio. 9 times the amount of people than the United States. 3.2 Billion people eating, crapping, using waste products, farting greenhouse gasses, exhaling poisonous Carbon Dioxide, littering, and so on.... Compared to the United States.... Just in dirty water, crap, and methane farts alone, we can't make a dent until they clean up their act. That's a fact.

Flint Michigan? Oh yeah - city ran by decades of Democrat Leadership and their water is STILL orange. Again - another fact, go look it up.

I get my information from actual events that are actually happening. Then I use my brain to think about them. You should try it

Hey. Remember that $2 Trillion "trickle down" tax plan that Trump and the insurrectionists passed in 2017. Well none of that money ever "trickled down." And when Trump left office, he added $8 Trillion to the debt. So tell me Mr. Fake News Conspiracy Theorist, where is the outrage?

Biden hasn't been in office long enough to elicit the changes you are talking about. Did you know that Trump's 2017 Tax Scam had a clause in it for the middle-class' taxes to go up incrementally between 2020 and 2024 in order to pay for the free welfare money they gave to Trump's billionaire buddies? Where is the outrage?

And you can stop with the China conspiracy theories. Just like the Hunter Biden conspiracy theory, nothing you insurrectionists come up with ever comes to fruition. Trump and his criminal daughter made the most profit from China and they still are.

Also - you know that China mapped out a plan to take out the United States... Right?

In their statements - they talked of how you couldn't take the United States by military force because "there would be a gun behind every blade of grass" -- then continued to talk about how they would have to infiltrate our media and entertainments, then our government offices, to financially cripple us to the point we would beg them for help.....

You DO KNOW that is a real thing that happened in the past right???

Fake news. It did. For example - my retirement account grew from 18K to a whopping 78K in the four years he was in office. That happened because people at the top invested their money and made everyone on their team benefit from it. Sooooooooooooooooo looks like you're wrong.

I know that as part of the 2017 Trump Tax Scam that United Airlines got a check for $8 Billion and used it to invest in stock buybacks. Then 3 years later, they threatened the federal government that unless they got billions in covid bail-out money, they would have massive layoffs. So the government gave it to them.

Trump's own Department of Labor and Statistics showed and proved that less than 5% of that $2 Trillion ever "trickled down." Where is the outrage?

And how is Ivanka's Chinese patents working out for her. You know she got those the day after she and her lover/father had dinner with Zi? Where is the outrage?

Nothing but lies, misinformation, and conspiracy theories from you Trumpers.

And what's up with the Hunter Biden conspiracy theory that you Trumpers have been throwing around for the past 12 months?

That's what business meetings do - when you work with China. You go and talk to them and make a proposal - then if they like it.... They accept it and you're in.

Just like Nike. What is your take on Nike? Or Disney? If your answer isn't the same as it against Trump - then you're basically a bigot and a racist (against orange skinned people).

Nike or Disney? Nike makes sneakers, and Disney is a mega entertainment company that ruined the Star Wars franchise.

When a hatred is put forth to an individual/company- that does something... But not to another individual/company that does the same thing.... Then yes, that is a form of bigotry - but also yes is hypocritical.

I have owned Nikes and I have my Disney Channel - I shop at Harbor Freight and local Ace Hardware... Most of my clothes are purchased at a Thrift Shop or Target/Walmart.... I'm already a part of the big problem with China and I know it.

But what am I going to do? Not a lot of stuff isn't made in China...

Agreed

Both are based in...... China now a days. If you're against Trump for doing business in china - but not against Nike and Disney - you're a bigot.

You clearly do not know the definition of the word "bigot." But i get what you are saying. The word "hypocrite" would have been the correct usage within your context. And I never said that I objected to Trump doing business in China. But don't be a hypocrite yourself. Don't bring up Biden/China without bringing up Trump/China. Or Trump/Russia. Or what about Trump selling our military secrets to the Saudi Prince for profit? You know, the guy who had Kashogi, a US citizen, brutally murdered because he was able to connect Trump's illegal profiteering?

And for over a year we have been hearing about this Biden/China thing yet nothing has ever come to fruition. Hmmmm. Could it be that you are influenced by rightwing propaganda? What about that Hunter Biden story? Still waiting........

If you're worried about companies making money from China - I hope you have banned Marvel movies in your house, Disney movies in your house, Nike shoes made in China, basically you know... 90% of the things you use every day that comes from China?

You're banning those right ?

If you're going to attack Trump people for doing business with China to make profit - be sure to go after ALL the companies making money because of China.

It's ok though - you keeping being a racist.

"Don't forget the $1400 stimulus"

shoulda been $2000 like biden promised

Oh..and I meant to say "when the dems were asking for $2000"

Uh duh....Trumpydoo gave us $600 when the Dems were asking for $1400. Remember that chico?
$600+$1400 = $2000.
Light dawns on marble head.

ideally, both politicians would've given out $2000 in checks to help americans recoup their losses. of course, both politicians have their priorities set on israel and middle eastern gender studies than the american people

"middle eastern gender studies"
Huh???

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-55420366.amp

"He said: "This bill contains ... $25m for democracy and gender programmes in Pakistan...."

While i agree with trump here, i still wonder why he hadn't vetoed the bill