Paul Ryan says Trump is more likely to lose a bid for the White House than any other Republican

fishtm2001

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Republicans would cut way back on the spending that's exacerbating the inflation problem. The recent "Inflation Reduction Act" is just adding fuel to the fire. And if the Republicans maintain control of Congress in '24 and capture the presidency then the rollback of restrictions Biden put in place will help the oil industry to once again be a net exporter and bring prices down. High fuel prices are the other major driver of inflation. Expect with Republican control of Congress for the next two years literally everything negative will be laid at their feet by the liberal press and this administration. You're literally saying the Republicans won't make any difference so we might as well keep the people who caused this problem in power.
The oil industry can decide to produce more oil whenever it wants. It has everything it needs to increase production but has chosen to profiteer off the current crisis rather than act.
 

vantexan

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The oil industry can decide to produce more oil whenever it wants. It has everything it needs to increase production but has chosen to profiteer off the current crisis rather than act.
OK, ask the Biden administration to reopen ANWR. That's 800,000 barrels a day taken offline. I'm certain I can find other examples.
 

vantexan

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So there was never 800,000 barrels "online".
I had read when he took ANWR offline that it reduced our overall production by 800,000 barrels a day. If that's not true my apologies. But how about we open up every avenue to drill that Trump did and Biden reversed? Why would you prefer that we get oil from the Middle East over that? Would create good jobs too. We are nowhere near having an electric grid that would support all EV's. We need the oil now. Seems like a political no brainer too. Y'all are trying to justify everything he's done but the fact remains we have much higher prices across the board. Seems only logical you'd want a political win. Opening up drilling rather than depleting our Strategic Oil Reserve would seem the smarter play.
 

fishtm2001

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I had read when he took ANWR offline that it reduced our overall production by 800,000 barrels a day. If that's not true my apologies. But how about we open up every avenue to drill that Trump did and Biden reversed? Why would you prefer that we get oil from the Middle East over that? Would create good jobs too. We are nowhere near having an electric grid that would support all EV's. We need the oil now. Seems like a political no brainer too. Y'all are trying to justify everything he's done but the fact remains we have much higher prices across the board. Seems only logical you'd want a political win. Opening up drilling rather than depleting our Strategic Oil Reserve would seem the smarter play.
Oil and gas corporations are staying away from new drilling projects. And they have revealed the reason for their inaction—profits.
 

vantexan

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Oil and gas corporations are staying away from new drilling projects. And they have revealed the reason for their inaction—profits.
When was the last time a refinery was allowed to be built in the U.S.? How many have been built over the last 40 years? How many times in public have Democrats vowed to destroy fossil fuel industries? Has this administration or the Obama administration been friendly to those industries? Yet you think they should risk hundreds of millions of dollars, if not billions, investing in new infrastructure when unfriendly administrations are vowing to destroy them? They are trying to pull out as much profit as they can while they can. I sincerely hope extremists aren't going to shut down all things petroleum related as there are about 6000 products on the market that use oil to make them.
 

UnionStrong

Sorry, but I don’t care anymore.
I had read when he took ANWR offline that it reduced our overall production by 800,000 barrels a day. If that's not true my apologies. But how about we open up every avenue to drill that Trump did and Biden reversed? Why would you prefer that we get oil from the Middle East over that? Would create good jobs too. We are nowhere near having an electric grid that would support all EV's. We need the oil now. Seems like a political no brainer too. Y'all are trying to justify everything he's done but the fact remains we have much higher prices across the board. Seems only logical you'd want a political win. Opening up drilling rather than depleting our Strategic Oil Reserve would seem the smarter play.
Biden sucks
 

Box Ox

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Aight Ya'll,is he a RINO or a Never Trumper or whatever else you Trump Supporters call folks in The Republican Party that aint MAGA ?


Do we think Trump would do better or worse against Biden in 2024 than he did in 2020? Because the 2020 Presidential election was closer than many Democrats would like to admit.


"The tight races in the trio of states had a big electoral impact. As NPR's Domenico Montanaro has put it, "just 44,000 votes in Georgia, Arizona and Wisconsin separated Biden and Trump from a tie in the Electoral College."
 

728ups

All Trash No Trailer
Ryan is a uniparty elite


i dont think you understand how little Republican voters care what list of "influencers" are for or against Trump

he's a populist who speaks directly to his constituents, he doesn't need a single elite endorsement to win

Democrat politics revolve around big name endorsements, Republican politics don't and haven't for decades
Thats silly: the Republican candidates that are Endorsed by the Former President proclaim that loudly and proudly,and love to remind potential voters that their opponents are NOT endorsed by the former president.
 

bbsam

Moderator
Staff member
Republicans would cut way back on the spending that's exacerbating the inflation problem. The recent "Inflation Reduction Act" is just adding fuel to the fire. And if the Republicans maintain control of Congress in '24 and capture the presidency then the rollback of restrictions Biden put in place will help the oil industry to once again be a net exporter and bring prices down. High fuel prices are the other major driver of inflation. Expect with Republican control of Congress for the next two years literally everything negative will be laid at their feet by the liberal press and this administration. You're literally saying the Republicans won't make any difference so we might as well keep the people who caused this problem in power.
I’m saying that when the republicans had all three branches of government they cut taxes and increased spending. You’re literally putting people up for election who spend millions of dollars trying to be the biggest A Hole they possibly can. Putrid nonsense 24/7 out their pie holes.
 

TearsInRain

IE boogeyman
Thats silly: the Republican candidates that are Endorsed by the Former President proclaim that loudly and proudly,and love to remind potential voters that their opponents are NOT endorsed by the former president.
literally irrelevant no matter what they say
 

fishtm2001

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“A majority of Republican candidates on the ballot this fall for major state and federal elective offices,” Marc Fisher writes in the Washington Post, join the former president in rejecting the outcome of the 2020 presidential election and, by extension, elections they do not win this fall. This “epidemic of election denialism” historians and political scientists see as clear indication of the U.S. “drift toward authoritarian rule.”
 

DriveInDriveOut

Inordinately Right
Oil and gas corporations are staying away from new drilling projects. And they have revealed the reason for their inaction—profits.
Total lie.
Democrats promise to destroy the fossil fuel industry. That's why there isn't investment.

It seems rather disingenuous when Democrats say exactly what they're going to do, and then when they do it, they pretend that they didn't.
 

vantexan

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I’m saying that when the republicans had all three branches of government they cut taxes and increased spending. You’re literally putting people up for election who spend millions of dollars trying to be the biggest A Hole they possibly can. Putrid nonsense 24/7 out their pie holes.
We've been over this before. Trump ran on cutting taxes. He also wanted to increase military spending. To get that he compromised with Dems and gave them their spending too. Revenue did increase after cutting taxes but so did spending. But nothing compared to what Biden has spent. Over $4 trillion in new spending. After 5+ years of Dems calling Trump and Republicans every name in the book it's hard to fathom just how you can say that about Republicans with a straight face.
 

UnionStrong

Sorry, but I don’t care anymore.
We've been over this before. Trump ran on cutting taxes. He also wanted to increase military spending. To get that he compromised with Dems and gave them their spending too. Revenue did increase after cutting taxes but so did spending. But nothing compared to what Biden has spent. Over $4 trillion in new spending. After 5+ years of Dems calling Trump and Republicans every name in the book it's hard to fathom just how you can say that about Republicans with a straight face.
Because they are DERANGED!
 

fishtm2001

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We've been over this before. Trump ran on cutting taxes. He also wanted to increase military spending. To get that he compromised with Dems and gave them their spending too. Revenue did increase after cutting taxes but so did spending. But nothing compared to what Biden has spent. Over $4 trillion in new spending. After 5+ years of Dems calling Trump and Republicans every name in the book it's hard to fathom just how you can say that about Republicans with a straight face.
Only a fraction of the 2.9% economic growth in 2018 came from the tax cuts, according to the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service. Instead of investing profits into their own capital investment, companies bought back a record $806 billion in shares in 2018, sending stock prices further upward. As far as tax revenue (this is from a couple years ago), The U.S. Treasury reported that from fiscal year 2017 to FY 2018, the federal budget deficit increased by $113 billion while corporate tax receipts fell by about $90 billion, which would account for nearly 80 percent of the deficit increase. Though the Trump administration and the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) projected corporate revenues to bounce back somewhat in FY 2019, there is no sign yet that that is happening, with 11 of 12 months having already been reported for FY 2019.
 

vantexan

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Only a fraction of the 2.9% economic growth in 2018 came from the tax cuts, according to the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service. Instead of investing profits into their own capital investment, companies bought back a record $806 billion in shares in 2018, sending stock prices further upward. As far as tax revenue (this is from a couple years ago), The U.S. Treasury reported that from fiscal year 2017 to FY 2018, the federal budget deficit increased by $113 billion while corporate tax receipts fell by about $90 billion, which would account for nearly 80 percent of the deficit increase. Though the Trump administration and the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) projected corporate revenues to bounce back somewhat in FY 2019, there is no sign yet that that is happening, with 11 of 12 months having already been reported for FY 2019.
The deficit is the difference between what is taken in and what is spent. The revenue did increase but the spending increased more. Doesn't do much good to increase revenue if they aren't going to be fiscally responsible.
 
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