Submitted by Naujutsu t3_yqb8ak in newhampshire
My girlfriend voted for maggie tonight, told her parents and now they won’t stop giving her shit saying we’re gunna have a “bad winter” and good luck in the cold. I’m kinda slow what the hell does that mean I did not pay attention at all to senate politics lol
You can actually ignore the person and just make it a party-line delineation. Starting with the lockdowns of 2020, the US House approved ridiculous spending (federal reserve printer go brrrr), of which the senate had to approve, which ultimately mr. Showbiz signed off on.
That kicked off a large run of inflation, which evetually began to affect the costs of goods to the end consumer. Blue took the POTUS seat, and immediately started terminating domestic energy developments in a way that almost gets Greta aroused. A change in the supply, which proceeds to get more and more limited, with a consistent demand applies pricing pressures. So going into winter, if your heating is petroleum derived, you get hit with inflation + supply issues for very high prices.
So basically the idea is, NH blue voted for all the things that drive up the costs, and therefore "freeze to death." A reasonable retort would include, "as far as the initial inflation side goes, Trump signed off on it, so wtf?"
I agree. Almost anyone could be placed in her spot on team blue, and the messaging wouldnt change. Its merely her name on the plaque.
That’s not really the case. The money printer has been running since 2008. This was always going to happen, Covid just made it worse.
Most of the current inflation is price gouging/profiteering. House just released a report on it.
The money printer has been working since 1913 if we are going to be pedantic. The 2020 lockdowns set the printers on fire.
Price gouging has always been a partisan claim and I have no interest in wasting my time on that item. You can do you / reddit can do what reddit does there, no value in spending time on that topic.
I’m not being pedantic. They never solved the issue in 2008. Cans were kicked.
I don’t really see how price gouging is a partisan topic when it’s demonstrably true that profits are sky high.
Look up how much of our $$ was printed since covid started. Facts speak for themselves. It’s not an argument.
The Republicans claim the Democrats are at fault for oil prices and inflation. Inflation at a 50 year high and corporate profits at a 70 year high makes that narrative a lot more complicated.
The Republican plan for fixing these things was lower taxes, cutting government programs (but not SS or Medicare*), and "growing the economy". Which is, uh, really doing what they want to do anyway and pretending it's a plan.
*Definitely trying to cut at least one of those
They blame the democrats for inflation. And not just here in the US. Somehow the democrats also caused inflation in most industrialized nations across the globe. I guess their evil knows no bounds....
Specific to this
> we’re gunna have a “bad winter” and good luck in the cold.
They’re blaming the home heating fuel shortage on liberals/Hassan.
Her parents are idiots. Neither is to blame.
The issue has more to do with Russia’s war on Ukraine and the decision by Saudi Arabia to pump less oil to raise prices than on Hassan or liberals.
And then toss in how New England is heavily dependent on propane for electricity generation it’s not Hassan’s fault
Actually, due to the sanctions on Russia the practically the whole world is experiencing high inflation. Look at Germany and Great Britain. Different economies, same inflation issues.
America doesn’t have much diesel refining capacity, we got most of our distillate from Russia.
Things that are shipped cost lots more. Inflation.
Biden and his neocon advisers have led our legislators, of both parties, to take actions that are economicwarfare- sanctions, and proxy kinetic warfare.
Both parties are culpable.
Oh, and somehow Nordstream 2 “broke”, opening up the European market for more expensive LNG from America- lessening domestic stock and driving the price up. Which makes generating electricity more expensive. That makes for rising inflation.
Don’t forget, as mentioned earlier, record corporate profits from price gouging…
It means her parents don't understand who is actually responsible for energy costs.
Also, you need to pay attention. If you did you not only know why her parents said what they did, you would have been able to stand up with your girlfriend against their utter stupidity.
WE CANT AFFORD DON BOLDUC!!!!!
Why r people voting if they dont even understand what theyre voting for? Thats like playing russian roulette.
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Where did it say that his girlfriend didn't know what she was voting for?
You could have. Many of you won't be able to afford Hassan.
Those parents understand. They're the ones paying $1500 to fill up their oil tank.
You don't.
For the last decade, democrats and their enviroloon handmaidens, have made the New England grid less stable. They've pretty much ended coal and nuclear. Wind and solar are available 35% and 25% of the time.
Don't say 'batteries.'
The same folks fought cheap Canadian hydropower.
All we have, pretty much, to drive electricity across the region is gas.
Andrew Cuomo (Death NY) blocked fracking in NY state and he prevented cheap gas lines from crossing NY state to supply New England. Those enviroloons also blocked the expansion of gas pipelines in New England.
The clueless like you own the problem.
I figured that power pricing would go haywire in 2020 when the Pilgrim nuke plant was shut down. It took the arrival of Biden's inflation to really kick things off.
We surrendered 'reliablity' and 'cost effectiveness' for 'renewability.'
Those parents understand because they're the ones paying for it...
Those folks count on the ignorant for votes. They work hard to muddy the water...
BAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!! Oh my freaking god. NHJournal?
The US was the world's swing producer two years ago. We, de facto and de jure, controlled energy pricing. When we weren't buying oil from the Saudis or Venezuela, their pricing was irrelevant.
Right up until President Cabbage, and his enablers like Hassan, did nothing while Biden leveled a shotgun directly at New England. Then pulled the trigger.
YOU are the 'idiots.' And the rest of us are all part of your dumbass, ignorant, suicide pact.
SMH.
The US dollar is the world's reserve currency. Our manipulation of the dollar kicked off a wave of inflation around the world.
We're dragging them with us.
ANOTHER DRONE! Who dresses you people in the morning?
Yes. You own both.
No. Spending less. Dialing the Fed back. SS and Medicare will get cut back when they go insolvent in 2026 and 2032, at this pace, anyway.
$5.7T in the last two years had nothing to do with Trump. Strangling access to supply puts a spear right through the heart of NE.
Did any NE Senator make a peep?
Ina withering 10% inflation environment, 'profit' isn't what you think it is.
Can I get you a cracker?
You're not wrong.
The article I posted is linked and referenced. If you disagree with what’s written in it refute the facts. Pointing at the URL to dismiss it is just stupid.
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Conservatives have destroyed our healthcare system, especially with regard to mental health. I'm sorry you're unable to get the help you need.
These types of comments are super helpful. How is your response in any way about energy? The lowest level of vitriolic political partisan response.
That's all they do is read the subject line and assume based on that lol. None of them actually do research and think for themselves. This is how we have crazies in seats of power.
Printing $3 trillion dollars in 6 weeks under the Trump administration had zero effects on inflation at all, right?
And 45s $2T tax cut that was supposed to trickle down but was all funneled into stock buybacks and pretend inflated 401k increases without any underlying change in fundamentals had absolutely nothing to do with undermining the perceived value of that reserve currency. Yeah, ok.
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I once had someone discount an article I posted because they thought USA Today wasn’t a valid source.
I pointed out the article was written by a novel prize winner and printed in USA today.
Didn’t matter. Idiots gonna idiot.
How’s that red wave going?
the-quibbler t1_ivnlpuf wrote
They believe Democratic control of the Senate will continue to drive the inflationary spiral we're currently in, and deepen the recession. They could be right, but more likely they're outrageously amplifying the potential effects of Maggie's likely win.