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33 minutes ago, toomuchbaloney said:

Hmmm

Maybe you aren't aware that there is widespread concern over this national trend in republican state politics.  

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/how-the-republican-push-to-restrict-voting-could-affect-our-elections/

I don't recall your concern when McConnell and Trump were actually and literally "packing the court" but your concern is noted now.  In my view, we shouldn't sacrifice our republic to preserve a Senate rule that republicans are happy to cast aside themselves when it is politically advantageous. It would be hard to throw a dart in the Republican senate caucus and not hit a Republican who has voted to change the filibuster. The current conservative hand wringing over the filibuster is expected and noted.  

LOL....of course your article you're including now is a different subject.  

Your comment on packing the court isn't serious, so I'm not even going to bother.

What Republicans have voted to eliminate the filibuster?

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4 hours ago, Beerman said:

"While there is only so much a president can do to override market forces, President Biden has done worse than nothing. Rather than relieve regulatory roadblocks to affordable energy—like lifting the Jones Act and the ethanol mandate—President Biden has aggressively deployed regulators across the executive branch to make it more difficult to explore for and produce oil, construct and operate pipelines, access financing and private sector investment, and use gasoline in cars and trucks.  "

https://www.heritage.org/energy-economics/commentary/fact-checking-bidens-excuses-rising-energy-prices-and-empty-shelves

Exaggerations, conflating disparate facts, and just plain gobbled-gook from the Heritage Society.  Sure, stopping the XL Pipeline, which was going to carry dirty tar sands oil from Canada to Texas for shipment overseas is driving gas prices. Encouraging the use of electric vehicles is a road block to affordable energy? The oil companies don't have enough money for exploration despite record profits?  The ethanol mandate does more to prop up farmers that the oil industry. 

Ah yes, the Heritage Foundation, the fine folks who brought you Gorsuch, Kavanaugh and Coney Barrett. 

 

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Here are 25 decisions the president has made over the last 10 months that have affected gas prices, home heating costs, and other energy-related burdens U.S. families and businesses face.

https://americansforprosperity.org/biden-policies-raising-gas-prices/

What is doesn't say is to what extent these are driving the costs, is it most of the costs? a small percenage, what?  It doesn't mention other driving costs mentioned by most economists: supply and demand, OPEC deliberately keeping supplies low, etc.  

The industry has long complained about regulation.  But left to their own devices they would destroy the planet in my opinion.

Any move towards cleaner energy will be seen as having a negative effect on our addiction to oil and raising prices.  

In my mind it's quite obvious that we need to move away from fossil fuels to cheaper forms of energy.  But the trillion dollar oil industry and their stranglehold on world politics and policy won't let that happen in my lifetime.  

 

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3 hours ago, Beerman said:

LOL....of course your article you're including now is a different subject.  

Your comment on packing the court isn't serious, so I'm not even going to bother.

What Republicans have voted to eliminate the filibuster?

A different subject only if one is trying to minimize and ignore the intentions and actions of republicans across the country relative to our elections.  

Yes my comment was serious. How disingenuous of you to completely ignore what happened with the Garland appointment and how that obstruction based on concern about proximity to an election lead to Trump's last appointment getting rushed onto the court after an election was already underway.  You don't think that dishonest behavior counts as packing the court when that was the end result? Of course you wouldn't want to bother when you can't defend that. That's a pattern in your interactions here actually.   I'm certain that you don't want to talk about the Republican obstruction of appointments to lower courts during democratic presidencies. 

I often wonder why you don't look up things like which republicans have ever voted to change the filibuster. 

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32 minutes ago, Tweety said:

https://americansforprosperity.org/biden-policies-raising-gas-prices/

What is doesn't say is to what extent these are driving the costs, is it most of the costs? a small percenage, what?  It doesn't mention other driving costs mentioned by most economists: supply and demand, OPEC deliberately keeping supplies low, etc.  

The industry has long complained about regulation.  But left to their own devices they would destroy the planet in my opinion.

Any move towards cleaner energy will be seen as having a negative effect on our addiction to oil and raising prices.  

In my mind it's quite obvious that we need to move away from fossil fuels to cheaper forms of energy.  But the trillion dollar oil industry and their stranglehold on world politics and policy won't let that happen in my lifetime.  

 

Are you familiar with Americans for Prosperity? 

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5 minutes ago, toomuchbaloney said:

Are you familiar with Americans for Prosperity? 

Hacks of the Koch Brothers.  These types have long had gripes about regulation and clean energy.

 

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8 minutes ago, Tweety said:

Hacks of the Koch Brothers.  These types have long had gripes about regulation and clean energy.

 

And liberal politics and policies...they are the bankroll of the Tea Party that devolved into the Trump party of grievance.  

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Don't forget Papa Koch founded the John Birch Society.

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2 hours ago, nursej22 said:

Exaggerations, conflating disparate facts, and just plain gobbled-gook from the Heritage Society.  Sure, stopping the XL Pipeline, which was going to carry dirty tar sands oil from Canada to Texas for shipment overseas is driving gas prices. Encouraging the use of electric vehicles is a road block to affordable energy? The oil companies don't have enough money for exploration despite record profits?  The ethanol mandate does more to prop up farmers that the oil industry. 

Ah yes, the Heritage Foundation, the fine folks who brought you Gorsuch, Kavanaugh and Coney Barrett. 

 

Attack the source without anything to dispute the argument.

Same ole, same ole.

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34 minutes ago, Beerman said:

Attack the source without anything to dispute the argument.

Same ole, same ole.

Did you miss the criticisms of the linked content at the very beginning of the comment you quoted? Maybe you didn't understand that those words (exaggeration, conflating, goobly gook) were describing the member's critique of the article. 

Is that misrepresentation intentional or a reflection of something else? 

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On 2/4/2022 at 8:06 PM, MunoRN said:

 An example of presenting research conclusions without really explaining it would be the faux epidemiology paper you presented earlier (written by economists rather than epidemiologists).  I realize it's been making the rounds in far-right circles but I am still surprised how really anybody can read that and not go "wait, what?".

It's presented as a meta-analysis, which normally would compile the available research and contextualizing it to produce a cohesive large pool of data.  Your article simply excludes all of the relevant research, including the study that Trump often promoted as reliable.  They offered no reasoned explanation for why they excluded the vast amount of data that shows measures that reduce the spread of Covid, do in fact reduce the spread of Covid.  

Apparently the Biden administration puts some stock in the Johns Hopkins paper.  They are even trying to tie Trump to, and distance themselves from the lockdowns.  

Yes, I'm serious.

"Most of the lockdowns actually happened under the previous president,” she said. “What our objective has been is conveying that we have the tools we need to keep our country open.”

-Jennifer Psaki 

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/white-house/white-house-casts-covid-19-lockdowns-as-a-trump-era-relic

 

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4 minutes ago, Beerman said:

Apparently the Biden administration puts some stock in the Johns Hopkins paper.  They are even trying to tie Trump to, and distance themselves from the lockdowns.  

Yes, I'm serious.

"Most of the lockdowns actually happened under the previous president,” she said. “What our objective has been is conveying that we have the tools we need to keep our country open.”

-Jennifer Psaki 

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/white-house/white-house-casts-covid-19-lockdowns-as-a-trump-era-relic

 

I watched that press briefing.  In my opinion she didn't "put some stock" in that paper she responded to a question about it from a right wing news outlet. What has President Biden been saying about lockdowns for the past several months, do you know? Are you under the impression that this administration is promoting lockdowns?

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