Wrong.
The pipeline was not completed over the four years under President Trump... and the oil is not simply sitting in tanks... it is being entered into the market and refined as we speak. The pipeline would have lowered transportation costs, and created what was most likely a safer means of transporting it.
Also, the domestic oil production is up after the fall to 9 million barrels during the pandemic; conservative estimates place the US on a record crude production next year. I stated conservative because those estimates have always fell short... the last estimate suggested that current production would not be reached for another ten months.
Russia didn't have to move into the Ukraine under Trump... Trump was already restricting military aid that the Congress had passed (one of the times he was impeached). If you are Russia, you need to move quickly under Biden... before the Ukraine has a chance to fortify its position or seek NATO alliance - something that was not going to happen under President Trump.
The border is really more of question whether you support Engels' Reserve Army of Labor Theory or you don't.
The drug deaths are do to people choosing to do drugs. It is like tobacco related deaths... it is a choice.
The inflation is do to an overheated economy and the refusal of individuals to choose to consume less. We see it every day at work... regardless of what happens to pricing... they just keep coming.
For those of us that are actually capitalist and conservatives... we see the market downturn as a buying opportunity, and never purchased anything that we didn't need to... regardless of how cheap it was.
The people crying are either trying to illicit political change... which they won't... or are living above their means and upset that the world is about to bring them back to reality - because the prices are going to keep going up until people stop wasting it.
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