If anything trump fucked up that golden age by starting a trade war with China causing 2.3% growth in 2019.
Back then you guys said it had to be done. No it didn’t and what did trump win in that war?
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Back then you guys said it had to be done. No it didn’t and what did trump win in that war?
Indeependent
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Oh, please!
When a plumber and electrician are making 80K+/year after being unemployed for many years they don't give a shit about where ties are made.
Tell me who you know makes ties.
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I suspect there will be more because of the worsening situation in china and bidens compounding mistakes here at home
Harry Dresden
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so you are saying you are brainwashed too right?...
Harry Dresden
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**** china bobo....
Oldestyle
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With all due respect, Gator...you don't seem very up on this subject! One of the very first Executive Orders that Joe Biden signed last January was to suspend all new oil and natural gas leases until an "environmental impact" could be done on them. He also suspended the Keystone pipeline project once again. The only reason this White House has handed out the permits that they HAVE is that they were sued in Louisiana court and forced to do so!The Taliban was going to take over no matter what, which is why Trump made his deal with them and not the previous Afghan Govt. The Taliban wants international recognition as a legit Govt, China wants to rape their land and take the resources...sounds like they were made for each other.
US oil production was cut 30% in 2020, no reason they cannot ramp that back up. There has been no clamp down, the Biden Admin has been approving oil leases faster than the Trump admin did.
Despite a Pledge to Ban It, Oil and Gas Permitting Is Up Under Biden
Legal and political realities seem to have tempered the administration’s ambitions for ending fossil fuel extraction on federal lands.www.audubon.org
And yet, the White House is on pace to hand out more oil and gas drilling permits this year than any under President Trump and the most since George W. Bush left the Oval Office.
Secondly the Biden Administration did one of those stupid "posturing" things that liberals love to do and it's come back to bite them in the ass! They decided that it would be a good idea to go after the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia for the killing of a Saudi journalist...something that everyone on the planet KNOWS happened and also everyone knows nothing will ever be done about it! So they accomplished nothing with their labeling the man in charge of things in Saudi Arabia a murderer except now the Saudis are NOT on good terms with us and they are NOT increasing oil production to ease gas prices in the US!
The sad fact is that Joe Biden ALWAYS get's it wrong when it comes to foreign affairs! He's an idiot.
Oldestyle
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When people see the total on the gas pump when they finish filling up their family vehicle...that's a "fact" that they don't have to have anyone explain to them, Candy!
When they see the total of their grocery bill going up while their choices are going down...they don't have to have anyone explain THAT to them either!
Inflation is a tax on the poor and right now we've got rampant inflation. Instead of dealing with that issue, Joe Biden is going to dump TRILLIONS more in government spending into the economy which any first year economics student would be able to tell you is a recipe for MORE inflation!
When an economist as liberal as Larry Summers is telling you that your economic policies don't make sense then you've got a problem, Candy but the gang running our country don't seem to care! They have an agenda and they're pushing it through!
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That's a lie planted in your head by your propagandists, you parroting rube.
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Biden Issues Dozens of Oil Drilling Permits in First Few Days
Despite a Pledge to Ban It, Oil and Gas Permitting Is Up Under Biden
Legal and political realities seem to have tempered the administration’s ambitions for ending fossil fuel extraction on federal lands.
www.audubon.org
jknowgood
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You talking about antifa? Well the got put in their place over the weekend. Lol
jknowgood
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No, it's the truth. Sorry.
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So Biden is just another Trump...Link?
Biden Issues Dozens of Oil Drilling Permits in First Few Days
Despite a Pledge to Ban It, Oil and Gas Permitting Is Up Under Biden
Legal and political realities seem to have tempered the administration’s ambitions for ending fossil fuel extraction on federal lands.
g5000
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Then link to the evidence.
Biden did work to get the prosecutor fired. The bit about why is manufactured bullshit put into your head by lying propagandists.
Now here is the ACTUAL truth.
The prosecutor was not investigating Biden's son.
Former Ukraine prosecutor says Hunter Biden ‘did not violate anything’
“Hunter Biden cannot be responsible for violations of the management of Burisma that took place two years before his arrival,” Lutsenko said.
Ukraine Prosecutor Says No Evidence of Wrongdoing by Bidens
It Doesn’t Take a Genius to Interfere in the U.S. Presidential Election
As the whistleblower’s report notes, even before Trump was repeating Lutsenko’s lines to Zelensky, the prosecutor was already walking them back. And since the release of the whistleblower report, Lutsenko has told multiple major U.S. newspapers that, regardless of what he said earlier, he doesn’t have dirt on Biden of any consequence whatsoever.
What To Know About The Ukrainian Company At The Heart Of Trump's Biden Allegations
On Friday, Ruslan Ryaboshapka, Ukraine's newly appointed chief prosecutor, told reporters his office will review all investigations shelved by his predecessors, including those involving Burisma and Zlochevsky. Those investigations were into activities that took place before Hunter Biden joined the board in 2014.
g5000
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Biden was not the only one calling for the firing of the crooked prosecutor.
February 2016: IMF Demand For Ukraine Reform Just Latest Red Flag For Poroshenko
Anticorruption campaigners point to the controversial appointment in February 2014, at the height of the Euromaidan furor, of sexagenarian Prosecutor-General Viktor Shokin.
Shokin previously served in the same post under Presidents Leonid Kuchma and Viktor Yushchenko, and in his new tenure has proposed a number of Yanukovych-era holdovers for key functions, making him the ultimate political insider in the eyes of critics.
Poroshenko has ignored repeated calls to sack Shokin, including from more than 100 members of parliament.
February 2016: IMF Demand For Ukraine Reform Just Latest Red Flag For Poroshenko
Anticorruption campaigners point to the controversial appointment in February 2014, at the height of the Euromaidan furor, of sexagenarian Prosecutor-General Viktor Shokin.
Shokin previously served in the same post under Presidents Leonid Kuchma and Viktor Yushchenko, and in his new tenure has proposed a number of Yanukovych-era holdovers for key functions, making him the ultimate political insider in the eyes of critics.
Poroshenko has ignored repeated calls to sack Shokin, including from more than 100 members of parliament.
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Thanks for the Links to LibBot rag sites.
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Keeping up appearances: How Europe is supporting Ukraine’s transformation | European Council on Foreign Relations
In November 2013, the people of Ukraine assembled en masse in Kyiv’s Maidan square. They were protesting President Viktor Yanukovych’s failure to sign Ukraine’s Association Agreement with the EU. The Maidan uprising sent Ukrainian politics into chaos. It began a chain of events that led to the Russian annexation of Crimea and to the ongoing war in the Donbas. And it changed the political leadership and set Ukraine on the rocky road to reform.
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Judicial reform has been equally slow-moving. Though key legislation has been passed, it has not yet been implemented. Constitutional amendments on reform of the judiciary are currently being assessed by the constitutional court. There is a vibrant discussion about the extent of political influence on the judiciary. Both the president and the parliament use their far-reaching powers to appoint judges to influence verdicts and settlements in their favour. Despite a constitutional overhaul of many paragraphs regarding the judiciary, there has been too little change on this. The dismissal, by former Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin, of reform-minded prosecutors who dared to investigate corruption by Poroshenko allies in spring 2016, and the launching of intimidating investigations against anti-corruption investigative NGOs for embezzlement, illustrates this problem.
<snip>
By the end of 2015, it was clear that the initial momentum for reform after the revolution had died out. Many experts – both Ukrainian and international – complained that the old habits of doing politics were creeping back. The window of opportunity to change Ukraine quickly and radically – as in Poland or the Czech Republic after 1989 – seems to have passed. The crisis that followed on the heels of the ousting of Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin, and then the subsequent changes in government – with all important reform-minded ministers dropping out or resigning – was an indication of how precarious the situation in Kyiv was, and still is.
<snip>
The Defence Ministry brought in new faces from civil society on a large scale after Maidan. Many experts have cited this as a positive example, and suggested that it should be copied by other ministries. The Economy Ministry under Abromavičius was another positive example, as he took steps to include experts from the private sector and civil society. But it is not clear whether this has continued after his departure in February 2016. In the Prosecutor General's office, the opposite took place, as Former General Prosecutor Viktor Shokin fired or prosecuted all young foreign-educated, reform-minded newcomers.
In November 2013, the people of Ukraine assembled en masse in Kyiv’s Maidan square. They were protesting President Viktor Yanukovych’s failure to sign Ukraine’s Association Agreement with the EU. The Maidan uprising sent Ukrainian politics into chaos. It began a chain of events that led to the Russian annexation of Crimea and to the ongoing war in the Donbas. And it changed the political leadership and set Ukraine on the rocky road to reform.
<snip>
Judicial reform has been equally slow-moving. Though key legislation has been passed, it has not yet been implemented. Constitutional amendments on reform of the judiciary are currently being assessed by the constitutional court. There is a vibrant discussion about the extent of political influence on the judiciary. Both the president and the parliament use their far-reaching powers to appoint judges to influence verdicts and settlements in their favour. Despite a constitutional overhaul of many paragraphs regarding the judiciary, there has been too little change on this. The dismissal, by former Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin, of reform-minded prosecutors who dared to investigate corruption by Poroshenko allies in spring 2016, and the launching of intimidating investigations against anti-corruption investigative NGOs for embezzlement, illustrates this problem.
<snip>
By the end of 2015, it was clear that the initial momentum for reform after the revolution had died out. Many experts – both Ukrainian and international – complained that the old habits of doing politics were creeping back. The window of opportunity to change Ukraine quickly and radically – as in Poland or the Czech Republic after 1989 – seems to have passed. The crisis that followed on the heels of the ousting of Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin, and then the subsequent changes in government – with all important reform-minded ministers dropping out or resigning – was an indication of how precarious the situation in Kyiv was, and still is.
<snip>
The Defence Ministry brought in new faces from civil society on a large scale after Maidan. Many experts have cited this as a positive example, and suggested that it should be copied by other ministries. The Economy Ministry under Abromavičius was another positive example, as he took steps to include experts from the private sector and civil society. But it is not clear whether this has continued after his departure in February 2016. In the Prosecutor General's office, the opposite took place, as Former General Prosecutor Viktor Shokin fired or prosecuted all young foreign-educated, reform-minded newcomers.
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https://www.foreign.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/03 15 16 Ukrainian Reforms Two Years After the Maidan Revolution and the Russian Invasion.pdf
While reform progress was substantial in 2015, it was not enough for many in civil society and at least some reformers in the Rada and the government. Critics focused on the absence of any real changes in the Procurator General’s Office and in the judiciary and claimed that the president and prime minister were not interested in going after these major sources of corruption. Both institutions were known to facilitate corruption. They pointed to the failure of the government—through the Procurator General— to indict any major figures from the Yanukovych administration for corruption. They complained, too, that Procurator General Viktor Shokin was a compromised figure who had served as Procurator General in the Yanukovych administration.
By late fall of 2015, the EU and the United States joined the chorus of those seeking Mr. Shokin’s removal as the start of an overall reform of the Procurator General’s Office. U.S. Vice President Joe Biden spoke publicly about this before and during his December visit to Kyiv; but Mr. Shokin remained in place. Early in the new year Mr. Pavlenko, the Minister of Agriculture; Mr. Pyvovarskiy, the Minister of Infrastructure; and Mr. Kvitashvili, the Minister of Health, quietly resigned. This had little impact on the reform debate. But in early February Mr. Abromavicius, the Minister of Economy, resigned and complained that he was tired of fighting corruption. He said that the immediate cause for his decision was an effort by close presidential aide Ihor Kononenko to install a crony as Deputy Minister of Economy with responsibility for the newly-cleaned up Naftogaz. Mr. Kononenko denied the charge, but civil society and other reformers took Mr. Abromavicius’ side.
So did the West. The United States, the EU, and eight Ambassadors of other countries expressed regret at Mr. Abromavicius’ resignation. So did IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde. In response to the controversy, Mr. Poroshenko called for Mr. Shokin’s removal and for an investigation into the charges against Mr. Kononenko. The efforts to place someone as Deputy Minister of Economy to oversee Naftogaz died. The Rada passed reform legislation that had been blocked for months. This legislation was required by the EU for the implementation of the Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Agreement.
What is more, Mr. Yatsenyuk engaged with all the reform ministers to bring them back into the government. Kvitashvili, Pavlenko and Pyvovarskiy agreed; Abromavicius did not. Pro-reform Deputy Prosecutor-General Vitaliy Kasko also resigned.
While reform progress was substantial in 2015, it was not enough for many in civil society and at least some reformers in the Rada and the government. Critics focused on the absence of any real changes in the Procurator General’s Office and in the judiciary and claimed that the president and prime minister were not interested in going after these major sources of corruption. Both institutions were known to facilitate corruption. They pointed to the failure of the government—through the Procurator General— to indict any major figures from the Yanukovych administration for corruption. They complained, too, that Procurator General Viktor Shokin was a compromised figure who had served as Procurator General in the Yanukovych administration.
By late fall of 2015, the EU and the United States joined the chorus of those seeking Mr. Shokin’s removal as the start of an overall reform of the Procurator General’s Office. U.S. Vice President Joe Biden spoke publicly about this before and during his December visit to Kyiv; but Mr. Shokin remained in place. Early in the new year Mr. Pavlenko, the Minister of Agriculture; Mr. Pyvovarskiy, the Minister of Infrastructure; and Mr. Kvitashvili, the Minister of Health, quietly resigned. This had little impact on the reform debate. But in early February Mr. Abromavicius, the Minister of Economy, resigned and complained that he was tired of fighting corruption. He said that the immediate cause for his decision was an effort by close presidential aide Ihor Kononenko to install a crony as Deputy Minister of Economy with responsibility for the newly-cleaned up Naftogaz. Mr. Kononenko denied the charge, but civil society and other reformers took Mr. Abromavicius’ side.
So did the West. The United States, the EU, and eight Ambassadors of other countries expressed regret at Mr. Abromavicius’ resignation. So did IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde. In response to the controversy, Mr. Poroshenko called for Mr. Shokin’s removal and for an investigation into the charges against Mr. Kononenko. The efforts to place someone as Deputy Minister of Economy to oversee Naftogaz died. The Rada passed reform legislation that had been blocked for months. This legislation was required by the EU for the implementation of the Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Agreement.
What is more, Mr. Yatsenyuk engaged with all the reform ministers to bring them back into the government. Kvitashvili, Pavlenko and Pyvovarskiy agreed; Abromavicius did not. Pro-reform Deputy Prosecutor-General Vitaliy Kasko also resigned.
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