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Scarlet said:
Why not post the gas prices at the high point of the Trump administration?  Or the low point of the Obama administration?  Why post gas prices when the world's economy was shutdown?  

You don't think maybe it's just a tad disingenuous and misleading?
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Lots of stuff on Twitter is disingenuous or misleading. But it can also be true, right?

Moiraine said:
Why are you asking this when you know the point the idiot is trying but failing to make?

If someone’s trying to prove a point and uses data that doesn’t prove it, it’s not really relevant whether the data is true or not.
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I believe @Scarletadded the graph portion.

 
DevoHusker said:
Lots of stuff on Twitter is disingenuous or misleading. But it can also be true, right?

I believe @Scarletadded the graph portion.
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Why is it relevant whether the sign is true or who added the graph portion? Scarlet isn't saying they are lying about the sign. That is completely beside the point. The point is the Tweet is stupid and doesn't mean what they are implying it means.

 
BigRedBuster said:
The fall of prices last summer had nothing to do with Trump.  
 

The rise prices now have nothing to do with Biden. 
 

It’s just one more idiotic thing Republicans are trying to make into a huge political thing. 
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Man, it does f#&%ing suck though.... We use A LOT of fuel, and everything is $1 more a gallon than it was 5 months ago.

 
B.B. Hemingway said:
Man, it does f#&%ing suck though.... We use A LOT of fuel, and everything is $1 more a gallon than it was 5 months ago.
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True.  But blaming that on Biden is idiotic. And anyone who does just is proving they are a Political hack that doesn’t care about reality.  

 
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TGHusker said:
Both parties play the victim game for the good of their individual plantation.  Some say, victim politics began with FDR pleading for the cause of the poor and needy at the beginning of the depression & against the ruling class of industry and finance .  I suspect it started well before that.  William Jennings Bryan  was a populist (not unlike Trump) from Nebraska who ran for president as a Democrat 3x (1896,1900, 1908) failing each time.  Like Trump he was a real character.   He used the victim card in his campaigns pitting one group vs another.  We also see the victim card being played by Southern Democrats after the Civil War - claiming unfair treatment by the federal govt during reconstruction.  The primary reason reconstruction was never really completed was because of election results & legislation that followed  that looked more favorably upon the cries of the south.  We had to wait until the 1950s and 60s for major civil rights legislation as a result of the unfinished reconstruction. 
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Mcdermott is that you? Youre playing in the title game tonight and now you want another suspension? Lol jk. 
 

Just thought id point out that the time perios you are mentioning, the democratic party was the conservative party at the time and the republican party was the liberal party. There was a political reallignment in the 50s I believe that went along with the republicans southern strategy. Thats why it makes absolutely no sense when republicans brag about republicans being the party of Lincoln and democrats starting the KKK because if they lived during that time period they would be democrats. 

 
BigRedBuster said:
True.  But blaming that on Biden is idiotic. And anyone who does just is probing they are a Political hack that doesn’t care about reality.  
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Yeah, I mostly agree. Though, I wouldn't be surprised if Biden's policy/positioning on environmental issues caused the fuel prices to move a little. Again, I'm not laying it at Biden's feet....

 
B.B. Hemingway said:
Yeah, I mostly agree. Though, I wouldn't be surprised if Biden's policy/positioning on environmental issues caused the fuel prices to move a little. Again, I'm not laying it at Biden's feet....
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No, Oil and gas prices are strictly a supply and demand issue. The Biden move that I see republicans trying to blame this on is stopping the pipeline. That’s easily proven as BS because no oil gas been taken out of the system. Oil is still being transported by the same means as before.  
 

this is strictly an issue of the difference in demand now compared to last summer in the middle of the pandemic. Nothing more. But, republicans will try hard with this. 

 
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BigRedBuster said:
No, Oil and gas prices are strictly a supply and demand issue. The Biden move that I see republicans trying to blame this on is stopping the pipeline. That’s easily proven as BS because no oil gas been taken out of the system. Oil is still being transported by the same means as before.  
 

this is strictly an issue of the difference in demand now compared to last summer in the middle of the pandemic. Nothing more. But, republicans will try hard with this. 
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Yes, and policy can directly affect supply. We largely agree. Laying it at Biden's feet is a political move.

 
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