**Official 2022 Mid-Term Elections Thread"

[Nitro Express]

There are things that can be done that will shift the current trajectory into a more positive place. It's not an immediate thing but won't take long to enact and can significantly improve our economic situation. It isn't a necessarily a partisan issue. It just takes both sides to agree.

Open the regulatory road-blocks for energy production. I'm not suggesting we be reckless, but quit trying to stifle drilling, transportation and production of oil and natural gas. Put us back on the footing we were at in 2019/early 2020 with energy independence. Open it all up a bit more and go for energy dominance. This will shift inflation and our economic trouble significantly and relatively quickly.

Immigration... finish the wall completely and turn off the massive flow of humans, drugs and crime. This issue is significantly feeding both the economic and crime issues plaguing the nation. We can still have "legal" immigration but we can't support millions of illegals any further. Plus we have to shut down the drugs and cartels on the southern border.

Crime... put the consequences back into the system and crime will reduce. It's that fucking simple.

GAS to me is Gear Acquisition Syndrome. Played the Jimmy Vaughn Strat tonight. It never disappoints. Love the neck!

[FORD]

**Official Senate Update**

Nevada has finally been called with alleged "Democrat" Catherine Cortez Masto winning with 48.8% of the votes defeating Republican Adam Laxalt with 48.1%

This gives the Democrats 50 senators, so they will retain majority of the Senate regardless of the outcome of the GA runoff, by way of the VP tiebreaker. But Rev. Warnock is likely to win the runoff, so expect a 51-49 majority. Technically, Alaska has not been called yet, but (thanks to ranked choice voting in their primaries) it was a "choice" of two Republicans on their ballot, so whichever one finally wins, it doesn't change the makeup of the Senate.

Officially, the House currently stands at 203 Democrats vs 211 Republicans with 218 needed for majority. Two seats remain uncalled on the east coast: Maine 2 at 98.7% probably should have been called already, with Jared Golden (D) leading with 48.2% over Bruce Poliquin (R) with 44.9%.

Meanwhile, out west.... starting with as far west as you can go without seeing Russia from your house.... Alaska's one and only house seat SHOULD have been called a long time ago, since Mary Peltola (D) with 47.3% of the vote absolutely slaughtered Moosealini Sarah Palin herself (R) with 26.6%. Don't know why that hasn't been called yet.. unlike their dueling Republicans Senate race which is practically a tie.

The remaining House seats are all west of the Rockies: 2 in Colorado, 2 in Arizona, 2 in Oregon, and 12 in Collieforneea. And most of these are literally "too close" to call.... still holding out hope that Katie Porter wins, and Gun Nut Barbie Bobert does not!

[FORD]

Thanks, demons!

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[twonabomber]

Beto loses. Maybe we won't have to hear from him any more.

[FORD]

[ZahZoo]

The gas prices are more about production capacity and collusion than about access to oil fields. The oil companies did retrack and orphan refineries during the pandemic but have been very slow to expand production capacity and a lot of this comes from Wall St speculators pushing them to keep prices higher...

If you ever have a chance talk to people who work in the energy sector. You'll get a very different perspective on what's really happening with production, capacity, and distribution in the US.

My son is an oil/gas pipeline welder. The strongest headwinds to increasing capacity is the permits and regulatory processes managed by the federal government. It's a nightmare just to get a permit to build something which the current administration is slow walking through approvals. Then once the permits are approved the EPA and DOJ are slow walking all the environmental approvals, law suits from ecology groups, etc... Then pile on the same from state and local regulatory agencies.

Just in the last couple of weeks... the FERC slowed approvals for scheduled maintenance of natural gas pipelines and distribution lines in Texas. This forced a distribution capacity problem in which the price of natural gas fell o $-2.00/mbtu meaning the production companies in West Texas had to pay to have excess natural gas trucked out of wells which can't just be shut off and they also couldn't just burn off the excess due to EPA restrictions. So the same day you have record market prices... you have pay to haul away a resource that's not meeting current demand this time of year. All because of federal regulatory issues.

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[Rikk]

He said it himself, "This country's not a democracy and WE don't want it to be" and then blamed it on the Jews and all sorts of "popular" things like sex out of wedlock, gays, contraception...and...uh...oh yeah...abortion.

Fucking nutbar. Nice to see him cry.

[Seshmeister]

Anyone got any examples of countries that aren't democracies that have worked out well that they would like the US to copy?

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Bizarro World Sammy Davis Jr says he can time travel to get KKKari Lake elected....

[twonabomber]

Anyone got any examples of countries that aren't democracies that have worked out well that they would like the US to copy?

lol

[FORD]

Apparently Scammy Davis Jr's time machine is broken, because KKKari Fake lost....