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$10 Trillion is net worth WIPED out. 8.6% "transitory" inflation. $5+ National Average for a gallon of gas. No mean tweets.

I was told he flew a CV-22 into the trees and did some minor damage to the bird...was also "told" they continued on with the training mission after the tree event. One of dudes in the back thought for sure they were going to flip over and crash. The then AFSOC/CC was prepared to end him but Slife stepped in and said he could "save him"... Cat 5 was 3 or 4 BPZ at that point and as I heard that same AFSOC/CC say to my face after another incident, "some people are too far along to let them fail" meaning they had invested so much in making him a GO they didn't want to waste it because AFSOC is obsessed with making AFSOC GOs. Truly one of the worst humans on earth.

Of course it is real, the question is how do you deal with it? Do you crush the American economy in an empty effort to send a message when China, India and others thumb their nose at the issue? The numbers from the past two years are skewed given COVID and shutdowns, but in general U.S. emissions have been declining while China and India were increasing. And please tell me how crushing production within the U.S. then begging Saudi, Venezuela and Iran to increase production is solving the problem? Come on Man! I would rather see us be energy independent, keep our economy strong and use the taxes and lease payments to fund a Manhattan Project style approach to capturing, limiting, removing carbon from the atmosphere. One of the great things about capitalism and the free market is it drives efficiency and problem solving.

Dear god Karen, there is a huge difference between using a source to support an argument and simply spewing the tripe and LIES that comes out of the DNC. I'll make sure all future posts are in the APA style.

I am sorry but you are straight up regurgitating the DNC talking points that spew out of the White House..."Putin Price Hike"...Come on Man. Of course it is global...and what we do at home impacts global supply. When Biden declared war on the U.S. energy industry and surrendered energy our independence he EARNED that sticker. Yes restarting the world economy and a war in Ukraine impact supply and demand but much of the increase happened before Putin went rouge and it is because we constrained our U.S. supply. We are now begging Venezuela, Saudi and Iran to produce more oil as if somehow that doesn't emit carbon like U.S. based oil does...Come on man! Please STOP referencing the 9,000 unused leased without giving the rest of the story. Does the energy industry have 9,000 leases to drill on government owned land, absolutely...does the government drag their feet, fight in court and block those leases at every turn...YES. The average time to get through the regulatory process is 10 YEARS. Then they fight all mechanisms to move and process the oil (pipelines and refineries). The oil market is not just a supply and demand curve, perception has a large influence. Would approving Keystone increase the supply of oil tomorrow, nope...but the price of oil would immediately fall on perception. This entire situation is purposeful - Biden said, “I want you to look at my eyes. I guarantee you. I guarantee you. We’re going to end fossil fuel.” A lofty goal and something but a realistic timeline that doesn't destroy our economy would be a far better approach. Sadly, Biden doesn't comprehend how oil impacts every segment of our economy. This situation is going to get a LOT worse.

This should just become the entire hypocrisy thread... My favorite hypocrisy of the day from yesterday is the DUI arrest of Nancy Pelosi's husband. Despite lawyers and multiple freedom of information requests good ole California is refusing to release his booking photo, the bodycam video from the officers involved and any records whatsoever related to the arrest. If it was a member of the GOP it would have been pushed out to every network as breaking news.

I presume the census data has some qualifiers (we know there was a case about whether or not illegals would be counted.) Regardless, per the CDC there were 3,605,201 reported births in the U.S. in 2020, down 4% from the number in 2019 (3,747,540). Per PRB.org there were 2,854,838 deaths in the U.S. in 2019. I don't know how the Census folks rectify the two numbers, if it is independent polling then there is obviously an issue with their collection methodology.

More cud chewing capability.

I've been been banging (sts), the birth rate drum for sometime, over ten years ago I visited Russia after having written a paper on just this topic. The war in Ukraine has had all sorts of second and third order effects including running the draft early, running a second round and just last week raising the age of service in Russia to 65. They are in serious trouble. There is another factor not discussed in depth in your numbers, immigration is independent of birth rate and adds large numbers to our population each year. The United States is the top destination for immigration, with 47 million immigrants the U.S. has the highest population of immigrants in the world. For the last 30 years the U.S. has taken an average of 1 million LEGAL immigrants each year. During the same period the U.S. has had a falling average number of births from 4 million to 3.6 million in 2020. As such we "officially add approximately 4.6 million U.S. citizens each year, of which 20% come from other countries. Illegal immigration is the game changer. The population of illegal immigrants living in the U.S. has varied from 10-12 million over the past 10 years. We don't know how many have made it in undetected but in 2021 there were 1.7 million encounters according to CBP. CIS and U.S. Census data indicates approximately 1.3 million illegals made it in between Jan 2021 and Jan 2022, with the situation at the border and the future of Title 42 in doubt, the numbers are certain to rise. The impacts from illegal immigration are both positive and negative, the extent of which can be argued by others. What is clear is the increase in illegal immigration happened under Obama and now Biden. The numbers remained steady under Trump. Whatever your view, immigration (most specifically illegal immigration), will have a profound impact on our country by 2060.