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'Breaking Bad' actor says Americans should 'stfu' about gas prices if they 'love capitalism so much'.
Fox News ^ | 6.19.2022 | Landon Mion

Posted on 06/19/2022 3:36:14 AM PDT by Carriage Hill

Actor Dean Norris criticized people who are complaining about soaring gas prices across the United States. The "Breaking Bad" star said current gas prices are "fair market" and urged anyone who "love[s] Capitalism" to "stfu," an acronym for shut the f--- up. "You're not getting 'robbed' at the pump," Norris wrote in a tweet on Wednesday. "You’re paying fair market price for a commodity. If you love Capitalism so much then stfu."

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To: I want the USA back

“With the current “climate” idiocy, it means gas would be $8 per gallon.”

Give them time.


41 posted on 06/19/2022 5:27:59 AM PDT by ChessExpert (Neither a Democracy nor a Republic. "I did that," Joe Biden.)
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To: gunsequalfreedom

(His net worth is $5 million.)

Everybody having to drive to work and pay more than double under President Trump should not be too pleased by his berating.

Which is the overwhelming majority of working men and women.


42 posted on 06/19/2022 5:28:18 AM PDT by SaveFerris (The Lord, The Christ and The Messiah: Jesus Christ of Nazareth - http://www.BiblicalJesusChrist.Com/)
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To: carriage_hill

What caused the 1979 oil crisis?

In 1979 American consumers were told that the cause of the crisis was a decline in Iranian oil production from 5.8 million barrels a day in July 1978 to 445,000 barrels a day in January 1979.

On July 15, 1979, President Carter outlined his plans to reduce oil imports and improve energy efficiency in his “Crisis of Confidence” speech (sometimes known as the “malaise” speech). In the speech, Carter encouraged citizens to do what they could to reduce their use of energy.

Per Carter’s speech:

“So, I want to speak to you first tonight about a subject even more serious than energy or inflation. I want to talk to you right now about a fundamental threat to American democracy.

I do not mean our political and civil liberties. They will endure. And I do not refer to the outward strength of America, a nation that is at peace tonight everywhere in the world, with unmatched economic power and military might.

The threat is nearly invisible in ordinary ways.

It is a crisis of confidence.

It is a crisis that strikes at the very heart and soul and spirit of our national will. We can see this crisis in the growing doubt about the meaning of our own lives and in the loss of a unity of purpose for our nation.

The erosion of our confidence in the future is threatening to destroy the social and the political fabric of America.

The confidence that we have always had as a people is not simply some romantic dream or a proverb in a dusty book that we read just on the Fourth of July. It is the idea which founded our nation and has guided our development as a people. Confidence in the future has supported everything else — public institutions and private enterprise, our own families, and the very Constitution of the United States. Confidence has defined our course and has served as a link between generations. We’ve always believed in something called progress. We’ve always had a faith that the days of our children would be better than our own.

Our people are losing that faith, not only in government itself but in the ability as citizens to serve as the ultimate rulers and shapers of our democracy. As a people we know our past and we are proud of it. Our progress has been part of the living history of America, even the world. We always believed that we were part of a great movement of humanity itself called democracy, involved in the search for freedom; and that belief has always strengthened us in our purpose. But just as we are losing our confidence in the future, we are also beginning to close the door on our past.

In a nation that was proud of hard work, strong families, close-knit communities, and our faith in God, too many of us now tend to worship self-indulgence and consumption. Human identity is no longer defined by what one does, but by what one owns. But we’ve discovered that owning things and consuming things does not satisfy our longing for meaning. We’ve learned that piling up material goods cannot fill the emptiness of lives which have no confidence or purpose.

The symptoms of this crisis of the American spirit are all around us. For the first time in the history of our country a majority of our people believe that the next five years will be worse than the past five years. Two-thirds of our people do not even vote. The productivity of American workers is actually dropping, and the willingness of Americans to save for the future has fallen below that of all other people in the Western world.

As you know, there is a growing disrespect for government and for churches and for schools, the news media, and other institutions. This is not a message of happiness or reassurance, but it is the truth and it is a warning.

These changes did not happen overnight. They’ve come upon us gradually over the last generation, years that were filled with shocks and tragedy.

Looking for a way out of this crisis, our people have turned to the Federal Government and found it isolated from the mainstream of our nation’s life. Washington, D.C., has become an island. The gap between our citizens and our government has never been so wide. The people are looking for honest answers, not easy answers; clear leadership, not false claims and evasiveness and politics as usual.

What you see too often in Washington and elsewhere around the country is a system of government that seems incapable of action. You see a Congress twisted and pulled in every direction by hundreds of well-financed and powerful special interests.

You see every extreme position defended to the last vote, almost to the last breath by one unyielding group or another. You often see a balanced and a fair approach that demands sacrifice, a little sacrifice from everyone, abandoned like an orphan without support and without friends.

Often you see paralysis and stagnation and drift. You don’t like it, and neither do I. What can we do?

First of all, we must face the truth, and then we can change our course. We simply must have faith in each other, faith in our ability to govern ourselves, and faith in the future of this nation. Restoring that faith and that confidence to America is now the most important task we face. It is a true challenge of this generation of Americans.

One of the visitors to Camp David last week put it this way: “We’ve got to stop crying and start sweating, stop talking and start walking, stop cursing and start praying. The strength we need will not come from the White House, but from every house in America.”

We know the strength of America. We are strong. We can regain our unity. We can regain our confidence. We are the heirs of generations who survived threats much more powerful and awesome than those that challenge us now. Our fathers and mothers were strong men and women who shaped a new society during the Great Depression, who fought world wars and who carved out a new charter of peace for the world.

We are at a turning point in our history. There are two paths to choose. One is a path I’ve warned about tonight, the path that leads to fragmentation and self-interest. Down that road lies a mistaken idea of freedom, the right to grasp for ourselves some advantage over others. That path would be one of constant conflict between narrow interests ending in chaos and immobility. It is a certain route to failure.

All the traditions of our past, all the lessons of our heritage, all the promises of our future point to another path — the path of common purpose and the restoration of American values. That path leads to true freedom for our nation and ourselves. We can take the first steps down that path as we begin to solve our energy problem.

Energy will be the immediate test of our ability to unite this nation, and it can also be the standard around which we rally. On the battlefield of energy we can win for our nation a new confidence, and we can seize control again of our common destiny.

In little more than two decades we’ve gone from a position of energy independence to one in which almost half the oil we use comes from foreign countries, at prices that are going through the roof. Our excessive dependence on OPEC has already taken a tremendous toll on our economy and our people. This is the direct cause of the long lines which have made millions of you spend aggravating hours waiting for gasoline. It’s a cause of the increased inflation and unemployment that we now face. This intolerable dependence on foreign oil threatens our economic independence and the very security of our nation.

The energy crisis is real. It is worldwide. It is a clear and present danger to our nation. These are facts and we simply must face them.

What I have to say to you now about energy is simple and vitally important.

Point one: I am tonight setting a clear goal for the energy policy of the United States. Beginning this moment, this nation will never use more foreign oil than we did in 1977— never. From now on, every new addition to our demand for energy will be met from our own production and our own conservation. The generation-long growth in our dependence on foreign oil will be stopped dead in its tracks right now and then reversed as we move through the 1980s, for I am tonight setting the further goal of cutting our dependence on foreign oil by one-half by the end of the next decade — a saving of over four and a half million barrels of imported oil per day.

Point two: To ensure that we meet these targets, I will use my presidential authority to set import quotas. I’m announcing tonight that for 1979 and 1980, I will forbid the entry into this country of one drop of foreign oil more than these goals allow. These quotas will ensure a reduction in imports even below the ambitious levels we set at the recent Tokyo summit.

Point three: To give us energy security, I am asking for the most massive peacetime commitment of funds and resources in our nation’s history to develop America’s own alternative sources of fuel — from coal, from oil shale, from plant products for gasohol, from unconventional gas, from the sun.

I propose the creation of an energy security corporation to lead this effort to replace two and a half million barrels of imported oil per day by 1990. The corporation will issue up to five billion dollars in energy bonds, and I especially want them to be in small denominations so average Americans can invest directly in America’s energy security.

Point four: I’m asking Congress to mandate, to require as a matter of law, that our nation’s utility companies cut their massive use of oil by fifty percent within the next decade and switch to other fuels, especially coal, our most abundant energy source.

Point five: To make absolutely certain that nothing stands in the way of achieving these goals, I will urge Congress to create an energy mobilization board which, like the War Production Board in World War II, will have the responsibility and authority to cut through the red tape, the delays, and the endless roadblocks to completing key energy projects.

We will protect our environment. But when this nation critically needs a refinery or a pipeline, we will build it.

So, the solution of our energy crisis can also help us to conquer the crisis of the spirit in our country. It can rekindle our sense of unity, our confidence in the future, and give our nation and all of us individually a new sense of purpose.

You know we can do it. We have the natural resources. We have more oil in our shale alone than several Saudi Arabias. We have more coal than any nation on earth. We have the world’s highest level of technology. We have the most skilled work force, with innovative genius, and I firmly believe that we have the national will to win this war.

I do not promise you that this struggle for freedom will be easy. I do not promise a quick way out of our nation’s problems, when the truth is that the only way out is an all-out effort. What I do promise you is that I will lead our fight, and I will enforce fairness in our struggle, and I will ensure honesty. And above all, I will act.

https://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/jimmycartercrisisofconfidence.htm


43 posted on 06/19/2022 5:29:24 AM PDT by tired&retired (Blessings )
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To: Robert DeLong

Deanie Weenie is working on earning a sniff from Jo Brandon.


44 posted on 06/19/2022 5:30:45 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Don't blame me, I voted for President Trump.)
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To: ChessExpert

I removed my TV and installed a chess board (Viking chess).
Don’t miss it a bit.
My stress level went down.
Do keep a tv for DVD s.


45 posted on 06/19/2022 5:38:14 AM PDT by GranTorino (Bloody Lips Save Ships.)
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To: tired&retired

Could you imagine Brandon trying to make that speech?


46 posted on 06/19/2022 5:41:04 AM PDT by GranTorino (Bloody Lips Save Ships.)
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To: carriage_hill

It would hard to get our energy system further away from free market capitalism to without outright nationalization of the industry. What an ignoramus.

Does this fool think the wild headlong rush to impossible and horrendously polluting “green” energy is driven by the free market?


47 posted on 06/19/2022 5:41:36 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (Wanting to make America great isn’t an insult unless you’re trying to make it worse! ULTRAMAGA!!)
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To: Erik Latranyi

Government is busily outright BANNING gas engine cars everywhere.

Consumer: “I want to buy a gas engine powered car.”
Government Overlords: “FU.”

Yeah, real free market we’ve got here.


48 posted on 06/19/2022 5:44:09 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (Wanting to make America great isn’t an insult unless you’re trying to make it worse! ULTRAMAGA!!)
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To: Machavelli

More of a blithering idiot


49 posted on 06/19/2022 5:44:32 AM PDT by abbastanza ( )
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To: carriage_hill

Who?


50 posted on 06/19/2022 5:48:47 AM PDT by sauropod (It's too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy cutting hair.)
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To: carriage_hill

‘Millionaire Drug Promotion Stooge says Americans should ‘stfu’ about gas prices if they ‘love capitalism so much’.


51 posted on 06/19/2022 5:49:44 AM PDT by MarvinStinson
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To: carriage_hill

It’s not capitalism if government shuts down the commodity to be traded. Liberals are beyond stupid. It’s a religion to them.


52 posted on 06/19/2022 5:50:23 AM PDT by Salvavida
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To: carriage_hill

What a doofus. logical fallacy strikes again. No one’s complaining the prices are not due to supply and demand, cost of production, sour expectations, etc.

Why do people even pay attention to non sequitors from the mouths of idiots.


53 posted on 06/19/2022 5:51:00 AM PDT by Strident ("Hi, my name is Joe and I make $#!7 up")
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To: Strident

The corrupt, DNC-controlled media love it, and push it to maximum effect. Besides, his failed “career” needs a “boost”.


54 posted on 06/19/2022 5:57:14 AM PDT by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: sauropod

I saw an episode or two of that show, once, and don’t remember him either.


55 posted on 06/19/2022 5:58:26 AM PDT by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: Nifster

He has $5 million. He’s telling the work-a-day folks, “you can eat cake”, and “I got mine.”


56 posted on 06/19/2022 6:01:47 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam (Joe Biden has been protected by assault weapons his entire adult life. )
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To: carriage_hill

“. “You’re paying fair market price “

No, we are not. We are paying government manipulated prices.

The free market worked under Trump and we had $2 gas.

Hollywierd is not run by Americans and actors ware nothing but whores to their masters in Hollywierd.


57 posted on 06/19/2022 6:02:31 AM PDT by CodeToad (Arm up! They Have!)
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To: I want the USA back

We’re on our way to $8/gal, soon enough.


58 posted on 06/19/2022 6:02:44 AM PDT by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: GranTorino

Shows how far the Democrat party has shifted toward the left.

Trump could give most of that speech to win over the independent voters.


59 posted on 06/19/2022 6:02:47 AM PDT by tired&retired (Blessings )
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To: tired&retired

All too well.


60 posted on 06/19/2022 6:03:42 AM PDT by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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