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Trump is who they voted for.

Discussion in 'BBS Hangout: Debate & Discussion' started by edwardc, Dec 4, 2024.

  1. edwardc

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    @Reeko west texas going through a major recession. Oil workers getting laid off left and right. They voted for, "drill baby drill" but instead got a pink slip LMAO.

    Dumbasses deserve getting fired.
     
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    “drill baby drill” turned to “sh*t’s getting real”

    there’s plenty of work in TX too, farmers are looking for people to pick blueberries for $11/hr…so I don’t wanna hear sh*t from unemployed MAGAts, time for them to lift themselves up by their orthopedic bootstraps
     
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    I don't believe Miller doesn't believe in education or tech.

    If you're right a flat screen may cost 1100.00 instead of 1000.00 to bring those jobs home. Also if you're right then why are so many countries, companies currently investing trillions in the USA.
     
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    You really don't care much for white people do you?
     
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    they really think there’s a bunch of young people sitting at home in their mom’s basement playing video games not doing a damn thing and then receiving Medicaid

    republicans actually hate young men and just use them for votes…look at what they actually think of them

    And this is the justification they’re trying to use to slash billions from Medicaid and other social programs. That, and trying to convince people that there’s a bunch of illegals receiving Medicaid

    majority of people on Medicaid are actually working but still don’t earn sh*t because wages are still stuck in the 90’s
     
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    There is a segment of the population left behind by globalization. I may be wrong, but I think you're a Trump supporter who isn't part of this population. A large portion of MAGA is. And the proliferation of education loans under Obama (who had this everyone should have a degree idea) and Biden is something the Trump administration is trying to reverse and diversify to other programs like skills training. So maybe a better definition is Miller Trump is more for different education rather than higher ed.

    As for the cost impact, your guess is as dumb as mine, so I don't guess. There are too many moving parts to know. It's best to just track the data over time.

    As for your foreign direct investment remark, it's because America has been doing great in this globalization space. That's not a new thing. Countries have trade surpluses with the US, service deficits, any invest tons into us, in the trillions, but it did slow in Q1 this year partly due to the tariff roller coaster.
     
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    And even if they aren’t working, why shouldn’t access to healthcare be a right in this country?

    we spend so much money on bullsh*t doing things like sending billions to Israel, giving Elon subsidy after subsidy so he can blow up rockets, and increasing the ICE budget to a whopping $170 billion, but when it comes to things for the American people, now it’s time to penny pinch and wonder where all the funds will come from? Matter of fact, we now have to slash funding for programs millions of people depend on.

    Trump blows $40 million for his POS military birthday parade, but when the flood hit TX and hundreds died, it takes over 3 days to approve sending in FEMA because under the Trump regime anything over $100k for disaster response is flagged and has to be reviewed by Kristi Noem in order to prevent “waste”
     
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    You can keep you colorization statements to yourself never have you ever heard me state that i don't care for white people . Now if you don't care for them that's on you but i sever a God that says i'm to love all.
     
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    Japan, south Korea, UK, EU have all said theyre not making any direct investments and its only high interest loans. There's no investments coming from these tariffs. I traveled to Asia a few weeks ago and people there are livid about the tariffs as they see it as a war on their economy.

    Individuals in trade schools still take out student loans to pay for school. Trump has cut pell grants and rolled back repayment options. He isnt doing anything to help people obtain trades.
     
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    gas prices have remained consistently low during Trump. 10 year peak was 2022 during the Great Biden Crisis.
     
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    I am surprised when people "think" that these "investments" are REAL, these have to be set by Congress and all we are told are bullet points and then each country comes back after we jump for joy and they say there taking that out of context, but it does make for a good soundbite. trump is easily taken advantage of all you need to do is tell him what he wants to hear......................the devil is always in the details, if I was a leader of another country, I would say sure, we will invest 50 Billion in the USA over the next decade and then somehow I would forget about that because they never ironed out what I was spending it on. REAL tariffs are not in 3 days, 3 weeks or 3 months

    It really is about the economy and the uptick in prices are already becoming headlines and the gop will have 3.5 more years of this and it wont get better unless they talk him off the ledge that are tariffs..........................and for those of you who think its cool to pay a bit more to get MFG jobs back here, you need to seriously do your homework and not take your political points from a pod cast or newsmax
     
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    Gas prices are lower today cuz the first thing Trump did was get OPEC to hike up production at the expense of domestic drilling. Oil rigs are falling off a cliff cuz OPEC is crashing the price. Trump sold out American oil workers to make arabs richer which was my original point.

    Thanks again for exposing yourself as braindead
     
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    @Reeko LOL how you going open a Trump restaurant while at the same time commit greencard fraud? How dumb are these cultists
     
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    what are you babbling about fool? It was you who said whoever is associated to lower fuel prices tend to win elections.
    It was a simple observation and you lost your **** … again.
     
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    Huh? This thread was created to mock his cultists for thinking he was going look out for them. O&G workers overwhelmingly voted for Trump claiming he would make them rich. Instead the domestic oil industry is imploding cuz Trump chose OPEC over his own domestic industry

    You need mental help
     
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    It's dishonest to compare economic figures to covid. You just have to toss those #s out.
     
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    Hypocrites.
     
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    Let's not forget that 40% of employers do not offer any kind of health insurance.
     
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    I paid $2.36 last December for a tank of gas. It's just dropped to $2.70 today.

    Do you understand why the gas prices peaked in early 2022?

    Because the Trump-OPEC deal to CUT oil production in April of 2020 was a 2-yr deal. It didn't end until April of 2022. Domestic oil production was immediately cut by 1-2 million barrels per day. So when the world began opening back up from COVID, there was no longer enough oil to match the skyrocketing demand. By the time Biden took over in 2021, we were producing 1.5 Million LESS barrels of oil per day and we couldn't produce too much more than that due to the OPEC deal. Notice that when the deal expired in April of 2022, the U.S. oil producers began ramping production back up and were back to pre-trump-OPEC deal numbers within a year, and eventually let to new annual highs for each year since. This graph is from the EIC - the deal was in place for the months in yellow.

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    U.S., Saudi Arabia, Russia Lead Pact for Record Cuts in Oil Output
    https://www.wsj.com/articles/opec-a...broader-oil-deal-11586695794?mod=hp_lead_pos2




    Next question: Do you know why trump made that deal?
    Because he crashed the U.S. oil market, Oil company bankruptcies were skyrocketing, and the bigger companies saw their profits begin to decrease. So he had made this deal to save Oil Companies from the crash he caused.


    "But if you had asked me in mid-summer what I expected for the rest of 2018, I would not have anticipated an oil price collapse. I largely attribute this decline to an unexpected variable in the oil markets that I call “The Trump Effect”.
    ..P"resident Trump also undercut oil producers by waiving sanctions on Iran. Leading up to the implementation of sanctions on Iran that would cut off their oil exports, Trump persuaded Saudi Arabia to begin pumping more oil to compensate for Iran’s pending lost exports.

    Then, just before sanctions were set to go into effect, Trump announced that waivers would be given to a number of countries to allow them to continue to import Iranian oil. Among those countries was China, which ironically means U.S. oil producers lost business to Iran as a result of this decision."

    https://oilprice.com/Energy/Oil-Prices/Why-Oil-Prices-Rose-And-Crashed-In-2018.html
     
    #2160 DFWRocket, Aug 6, 2025 at 9:17 AM
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