Trump, the socialist we don't want back into office.

[YoursTruly]

The oil and gas industry has an average profit margin of 4.7%. This means that about 4.7% of the money the industry brings in is considered profit and doesn't go toward paying for the company's costs.

However, this average isn't necessarily reflective of the dramatic ups and downs that oil and gas production companies' profits saw in 2021. At the beginning of 2021, these companies were seeing profit margins of -22%, and at the end of 2021, as gas prices soared in the U.S., oil and gas companies saw profit margins of 31.3%.

How much profit does the oil and gas industry make?

The oil and gas industry has an average profit margin of 4.7%. This means that about 4.7% of the money the industry brings in is considered profit and doesn't go toward paying for the company's costs.However, this average isn't necessarily reflective of the dramatic ups and downs that oil and...

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These are fabricated numbers. The fact is, every time oil moves from the ground to the pump, is creating a profit. The owner of the mineral rights gets a profit. The truckers who move the oil get's a profit. The refineries make a profit. The oil companies themselves make a profit. The gas station owner gets a profit.
The numbers are skewed because it makes out like all of those entities are expenses to the oil companies. Technically that's true. But those expenses are calculated and added to the costs. So the oil companies aren't losing any actual money.
Then throw in the BILLIONS the oil companies get in subsidies from the US government, and that creates HUGE profits.
At our expense. Even though they were already making billions prior to the subsidies.

 

[Ray From Cleveland]

Holy hell dude. We've been over this 100 times now. Trump inherited a recovering economy. Nothing he did improved it. In fact, all his borrowing and spending just set up the next economic downturn because injecting new money into the economy creates inflation. Inflation creates an economic downturn.
And more than 1/2 of that covid money was just pork.



Trump is a profession politician. Or are you going to call Trump a liar, because Trump admitted that he is a politician.
Our founders wanted a sound money and free markets to dictate the economy. This is NOT what Trump, Biden, Obama, both Bush's, Clinton or Reagan have given us. They've devalued the currency, created ridiculous laws and regulations on businesses. They've interfered with the free markets. They've overstepped their constitutional authority on many occasions.
All of them. Not just democrats.

Industry seen one of the largest tax cuts in our time. What do you mean he didn't assist in the economy. He got rid of Commie Care fines, removed job killing regulations. Created the policy that for every new business regulation made, two had to be removed in it's place.

Inflation was in the normal range during his entire presidency (between 1.5 and 2.5%) in spite of the spending which had many Democrat fingerprints on it. He only spent half his time with a Republican House. The covid money that was not spent the Republican House wants it back and the Democrats are giving them shit about that.

Trump never so much as sat on a school board before becoming President. He was not a professional politician.

 

[Ray From Cleveland]

These are fabricated numbers. The fact is, every time oil moves from the ground to the pump, is creating a profit. The owner of the mineral rights gets a profit. The truckers who move the oil get's a profit. The refineries make a profit. The oil companies themselves make a profit. The gas station owner gets a profit.
The numbers are skewed because it makes out like all of those entities are expenses to the oil companies. Technically that's true. But those expenses are calculated and added to the costs. So the oil companies aren't losing any actual money.
Then throw in the BILLIONS the oil companies get in subsidies from the US government, and that creates HUGE profits.
At our expense. Even though they were already making billions prior to the subsidies.

How many sources would you like that say the same thing? Oil companies are not in control of their own profits, the market is. What we pay for fuel is not always reflective of the profits they make. Yes, people get paid along the line to refine and deliver that fuel to us, but it has nothing to do with the profits the oil and gas companies make themselves.

 

[YoursTruly]

How many sources would you like that say the same thing? Oil companies are not in control of their own profits, the market is. What we pay for fuel is not always reflective of the profits they make. Yes, people get paid along the line to refine and deliver that fuel to us, but it has nothing to do with the profits the oil and gas companies make themselves.

The market is just their excuse to increase profits. FFS, it was the futures market that helped them get record profits under Biden, at the same time producing record low amounts of oil/gas.

If you own the oil, the logistics to the refineries, the refineries, then you can decide what the price is. If the oil companies did this, it would create competition. So they ALL use the stock market and futures market to price their product.
Simply because they can control that price by decreasing oil production. They reduce their production and the prices increase. It's as simple as that.

 

[BasicHumanUnit]

Holy hell dude. We've been over this 100 times now. Trump inherited a recovering economy. Nothing he did improved it. In fact, all his borrowing and spending just set up the next economic downturn because injecting new money into the economy creates inflation. Inflation creates an economic downturn.
And more than 1/2 of that covid money was just pork.



Trump is a profession politician. Or are you going to call Trump a liar, because Trump admitted that he is a politician.
Our founders wanted a sound money and free markets to dictate the economy. This is NOT what Trump, Biden, Obama, both Bush's, Clinton or Reagan have given us. They've devalued the currency, created ridiculous laws and regulations on businesses. They've interfered with the free markets. They've overstepped their constitutional authority on many occasions.
All of them. Not just democrats.

Sadly, the Trump cult mob is EXACTLY as bad as the Biden mob.
Both camps 100% buy into the BS of their side, just like the PTB wants them to.

 

[Billiejeens]

I don't recall the section of the Constitution that authorizes the executive branch to go on vendettas against political enemies.

Okay
That was funny

 

[BasicHumanUnit]

Okay
That was funny

Agreed.
Blatant narcissism on display.

 

[YoursTruly]

I don't recall the section of the Constitution that authorizes the executive branch to go on vendettas against political enemies.

DeSantis is a governor. Different constitution in FL. Different state laws.

When you have Disney donating millions to not only FL legislators, but also to organizations that are using the money to tie the state up in court over this sexualizing K thru 3rd grade, the state was well in it's rights to go after Disney.
Sexualizing and grooming children is dead wrong. And it's under the states authority to protect them. Especially in state funded schools.

 

[dblack]

DeSantis is a governor. Different constitution in FL. Different state laws.

When you have Disney donating millions to not only FL legislators, but also to organizations that are using the money to tie the state up in court over this sexualizing K thru 3rd grade, the state was well in it's rights to go after Disney.
Sexualizing and grooming children is dead wrong. And it's under the states authority to protect them. Especially in state funded schools.

Seriously? You're defending what he's doing? Will you be just as supportive when a Democrat tough guy goes after conservatives who dare to disagree with him??

So, who else do you think deserves the governor's wrath? Should anyone who supports Disney also be targeted? Other businesses who spend money lobbying against him?

 

[Red Front]

Someone somewhere else on the internet(s) post a long list of Trumps accomplishment. So being an avid Trump non supporter for many thing he did in office, I gave them a good look. Most of the thing on the list were pretty honest. Some were just down right lies.
Then I happened onto this. I always knew that Trump was too liberal for me. Too progressive also. He spent way too much money for my fiscal conservatism supporting self to go along with. But thanks to the die hard Trump supporters, who are constantly bragging about how great Trump was, I'm able to debunk most of their ridiculous theories on the matter.

This one in particular, Trump's Platinum Plan. Which gives hundreds of billions to neighborhoods just because they're black.
For one, that's racist. Because there's a lot of poor white neighborhoods. Plenty of neighborhoods that have all different races. So why did he want to pick out only black neighborhoods. And why would he think that socialism, in the name of Trump, was better than the other socialist idea's and agenda's.

The more I look at the list of Trumps accomplishments, the more I support DeSantis. At least DeSantis isn't a socialist like Trump.

Obviously, this is from back when he was POTUS. But since he's announced he's running again, I certainly don't want him back.

Trumps Platinum Plan

I agree with the objection to just helping blacks and not whites, but your rejection of him for supposedly being a socialist is absurd. If he were a socialist, he would serve the interests of the working class much more than he has done. Allowing companies like Carrier to close factories, laying off thousands of American workers, to move those factories to Mexico, without any penalties or negative consequences shows he's not a socialist. He promised those 1,200 workers in the Carrier plant in Indiana that they wouldn't lose their jobs, because the factory wasn't going to move to Mexico, and in less than a year of Trump being president, Carrier closed that plant and moved it to Mexico. Trump did absolutely nothing.

A socialist would've stripped Carrier of all of its tax breaks and would've imposed tariffs on all of its Mexican manufactured products, making it unprofitable to move factories to Mexico or anywhere else. If you're a big company that employs thousands of Americans and you begin stripping those workers and their families of their income, that hurts the American economy. You can't close your factory, fire a bunch of Americans and then expect to profit from the American consumer by producing products in Mexico, paying Mexicans $1.00 hourly. That's a level of greed that destroys the American economy, by stripping Americans of their jobs and purchasing power. Huge short-term profits at the expense of America (economic cannabilism).

If Trump were a socialist, he wouldn't have allowed that. He also would be pro-union and labor, which he's not. According to Trump, only the rich have the right to form organizations that advance and defend their financial interests, not the working class. A socialist president would protect workers, allowing them to unionize, without being fired. He would push for more democracy in the workplace.

 

[John Edgar Slow Horses]

YoursTruly flopped. Again.

US Constitution trumps state constitution.

Free Speech is protected, as DeSantis et al are going to find out.

 

[surada]

These are fabricated numbers. The fact is, every time oil moves from the ground to the pump, is creating a profit. The owner of the mineral rights gets a profit. The truckers who move the oil get's a profit. The refineries make a profit. The oil companies themselves make a profit. The gas station owner gets a profit.
The numbers are skewed because it makes out like all of those entities are expenses to the oil companies. Technically that's true. But those expenses are calculated and added to the costs. So the oil companies aren't losing any actual money.
Then throw in the BILLIONS the oil companies get in subsidies from the US government, and that creates HUGE profits.
At our expense. Even though they were already making billions prior to the subsidies.

US oil companies have the highest production costs in the world and poor production emissions rates.

 

[surada]

DeSantis is a governor. Different constitution in FL. Different state laws.

When you have Disney donating millions to not only FL legislators, but also to organizations that are using the money to tie the state up in court over this sexualizing K thru 3rd grade, the state was well in it's rights to go after Disney.
Sexualizing and grooming children is dead wrong. And it's under the states authority to protect them. Especially in state funded schools.

Desantis is a loser... nobody is sexualizing little kids.

 

[konradv]

Well dumbass when a political board has the venue that a media corporation has we can talk.

I’ll talk anytime I damn well please, skippy.

 

[LuckyDuck]

Someone somewhere else on the internet(s) post a long list of Trumps accomplishment. So being an avid Trump non supporter for many thing he did in office, I gave them a good look. Most of the thing on the list were pretty honest. Some were just down right lies.
Then I happened onto this. I always knew that Trump was too liberal for me. Too progressive also. He spent way too much money for my fiscal conservatism supporting self to go along with. But thanks to the die hard Trump supporters, who are constantly bragging about how great Trump was, I'm able to debunk most of their ridiculous theories on the matter.

This one in particular, Trump's Platinum Plan. Which gives hundreds of billions to neighborhoods just because they're black.
For one, that's racist. Because there's a lot of poor white neighborhoods. Plenty of neighborhoods that have all different races. So why did he want to pick out only black neighborhoods. And why would he think that socialism, in the name of Trump, was better than the other socialist idea's and agenda's.

The more I look at the list of Trumps accomplishments, the more I support DeSantis. At least DeSantis isn't a socialist like Trump.

Obviously, this is from back when he was POTUS. But since he's announced he's running again, I certainly don't want him back.

Trumps Platinum Plan

I reviewed the things Trump actually accomplished while in office and can't complain. His plan to create "Opportunity Zones" in the large inner-cities was a good thing. Once an area is revitalized it can then operate well on its own. Sadly, it didn't work out all that well. That's because the funding had to go through Democrat run cities and their handling of monies always seems to just make money disappear without actually helping communities. Basically, Democrat (Marxist) corruption.
There's also the fact that the "MAJORITY" of things he promised and did were indeed good for the economy and the public.
When he runs in 2024, I plan on not voting for him though. If elected, he will be a "lame-duck" president and thus won't be able to accomplish as much as a two-term president could. There's also the fact that he's so old and white.
If DeSantis runs, the Republicans will lose. The majority of blacks voted for Obama when he ran and when asked why, they responded: "Because he is black." We need the minority vote and thus having a minority running as president or at least vice-president, might help and couldn't hurt.

 

[John Edgar Slow Horses]

PS...
DeSantis doesn't do that. He does what the government SHOULD do.,..protect people from insane anti-American narcissists and Marxo-maniacs.

Take that, Mickey Mouse, you narcissistic Marxo-maniac!

 

[easyt65]

Someone somewhere else on the internet(s) post a long list of Trumps accomplishment. So being an avid Trump non supporter for many thing he did in office, I gave them a good look. Most of the thing on the list were pretty honest. Some were just down right lies.
Then I happened onto this. I always knew that Trump was too liberal for me. Too progressive also. He spent way too much money for my fiscal conservatism supporting self to go along with. But thanks to the die hard Trump supporters, who are constantly bragging about how great Trump was, I'm able to debunk most of their ridiculous theories on the matter.

This one in particular, Trump's Platinum Plan. Which gives hundreds of billions to neighborhoods just because they're black.
For one, that's racist. Because there's a lot of poor white neighborhoods. Plenty of neighborhoods that have all different races. So why did he want to pick out only black neighborhoods. And why would he think that socialism, in the name of Trump, was better than the other socialist idea's and agenda's.

The more I look at the list of Trumps accomplishments, the more I support DeSantis. At least DeSantis isn't a socialist like Trump.

Obviously, this is from back when he was POTUS. But since he's announced he's running again, I certainly don't want him back.

Trumps Platinum Plan

The GOP pushed legislation condemning Socialism.

Nancy Pelosi's replacement, Jeffries, literally stood up on the House floor and declared Democrats could NOT vote to support this bill BECAUSE IT WOULD UNDERMINE THE DEMOCRAT PARTY'S AGENDA...

...and you want to create a 'TDS / I Hate Trump' thread accusing Trump of being a Socialist ... AND declaring you don't want a 'Socialist President'?!

What the hell do you think we have NOW?!

 

[Billiejeens]

Seriously? You're defending what he's doing? Will you be just as supportive when a Democrat tough guy goes after conservatives who dare to disagree with him??

So, who else do you think deserves the governor's wrath? Should anyone who supports Disney also be targeted? Other businesses who spend money lobbying against him?

Democrats aren't going to step up to protect children.
Your point is moot.

 

[surada]

Democrats aren't going to step up to protect children.
Your point is moot.

You mean the school shootings? Governor Abbott keeps saying it's a mental health problem, but Texas is dead last in mental health services.

 

[Billiejeens]

You mean the school shootings? Governor Abbott keeps saying it's a mental health problem, but Texas is dead last in mental health services.

Also you're an idiot.