GrymEdm

I still love you guys. You're our closest ally by far. It's just sometimes I hear stuff like that and have to remind myself heh. Plus I know it was like 75m against vs 77m for Trump so it's not like there isn't opposition that continues to this day and foreseeable future.

Trudeau wasn't terrible, but he wasn't going to win again. I only voted Liberal once (otherwise NDP who are center-left to left). I did so because Trudeau promised to get rid of first-past-the-post elections, and when that didn't happen they lost me. My take on his time as leader is that he was decent during hard times. Not great, not terrible - life got harder as Canadians but we fared better than a lot of countries.

I'd much rather have him than the MAGA-lite conservative government which I fear my nation is headed for. My right-wing family members seem to share very similar faults to MAGA. I really don't want Americans to get fucked by Trump and his reality-show appointees, but it looks like that's what the US is headed for regardless of my wishes. I can only hope that our undecideds look at the mess the US Republicans are already and move away from voting in that mindset here.

BTW, Trump responding by continuing to call Canada as the 51st state and referring to our office of Prime Minister as the "governor of Canada" is shit behaviour and likely to burn through some goodwill. I know the folks reading this have no control over that clown, but I'm not looking forward to getting that attitude from the bloc of voters that parrot his verbal diarrhea.

"Many people in Canada LOVE being the 51st State," Trump posted on his social media platform Truth Social. "If Canada merged with the U.S., there would be no Tariffs, taxes would go way down, and they would be TOTALLY SECURE from the threat of the Russian and Chinese Ships that are constantly surrounding them. Together, what a great Nation it would be!!!" Fuck right off you spray-painted felon sex offender.

BTW, are you trying to say US oil usage has dropped? I looked that up and it's not what's happening.

US oil production is not US oil usage.

Explain. Do you think the oil disappears or doesn't affect climate because it's not burned in the US? Why wouldn't I hold US policymakers accountable for oil being produced under their watch, even if it is exported?

As for dips, then there was the 2008 great recession and covid which changed everything for a few years each.

Look at the chart. The decline started in the mid-80's, and reached the bottom in 2005. By about 2001 it was the lowest since 1950. Years before the 2008 crash. You are right that the drop during Trump's last year coincides with the onset of COVID, but it rises again as early as the summer of 2020. And continues unabated into Biden's presidency and last year.

That running on an environmental policy was a losing proposition.

Obama was already elected into his 2nd term when oil production started climbing quicker than ever before at the end of 2012. Campaign strategy was over by then.

Nothing I'm seeing in the data suggests that Dems were meaningfully impeding/capping oil production. You may say it's because the environment is a losing political proposition (and you may be right). But in doing so you're just assigning a reason for the trends and timing that show dual-party responsibility.

4 years? Climate scientists have been warning the world about climate change for about half a century, and urgently for a few decades. Bill Nye specifically has videos going back at least 13 years.

Don't just blame the 2017-2021 Trump presidency either for the current high, if that is what you mean by your "reworking the energy grid/vehicles in 4 years" argument. US oil production was at its lowest since about 1950 under Bush Jr. then climbed again dramatically through Obama's 2 terms. Then the Biden presidency started after a year of "low" production (that was actually higher than anything pre-2017) before climbing again steeply during the last 4 years. This is a problem of both parties, and the worst of it has happened in the last 13 years of which 9 were under a Dem president.

"I hope this medal makes up for 2024 being the year of highest oil production in US history. Which happened in defiance of all the climate science you've been trying to tell us about. You know, as part of the years of science education this award honors."

The original Baldur's Gate story (1 and 2 + expansions) begin with you being a barely trained orphan sent on an unexpected journey by your foster father...

Guess Rudy gets to find out what food stamps and barely making rent have been like for so many folks. Maybe he'll be dragged kicking and screaming (literally as per that drawing) into empathy before he dies.

I wish I was winning round cheeses! TFW too hetero a man to seduce a farmer and get treated like this:

Bullet vending machines? Just in case you find yourself running low on bullets while out and about in the city? "Damn it. They're out of Snickers bars so I guess I'll just settle for some 9mm."

Hope Ukraine can get a lot done in the 2 months before US policy changes back. Maybe Biden is trying to force a rift between two old dictators before he leaves office, because as is I doubt Putin is going to allow Trump to stay on Ukraine's side.