Scott Jennings Teaches David Hogg Some
Foreign Policy Lessons
Townhall,
by
Amy Curtis
Original Article
Posted By: Hazymac,
4/16/2026 9:40:30 AM
We're not sure why CNN tapped David Hogg to appear on a program to discuss Iran and the Strait of Hormuz, but they did. Unfortunately for Hogg, Scott Jennings was also on the panel, and Jennings was ready to teach the Harvard graduate a thing or two about debate and foreign policy. (X) "Anybody with an elementary school understanding of foreign policy could have told you that the Strait of Hormuz was going to get shut down," Hogg said. "That is exactly what happened."
"And who controls it right now?" Jennings asked.
Instead of answering the question, Hogg deflected.
"Why are gas prices so high then?"
"Why were they high during Biden's administration?
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
red1066 4/16/2026 10:09:00 AM (No. 2093339)
I'm asking the same question about gas prices. If, as we're told, that the U.S. is self-sufficient with its oil production, and we don't even use oil from the Middle East, why are gas prices so high here? The price of oil on the world market shouldn't affect gas prices here. I guess the phony oil crisis back in the 70's that caused gas prices to more than double and caused everyone to sit in line for gas while refineries ran out of space to store all the oil, was a marketing tool that the oil companies never forgot.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
jeffkinnh 4/16/2026 10:19:52 AM (No. 2093348)
"What Hogg lacks in foreign policy chops he makes up for in unearned self-confidence."
He is a "celebrity" and has the same ego problem that all celebrities have.
In fact, most Leftist politicians are celebrities as well and all they bring to the table is their egos. This should be obvious after the Bidet administration showed that it was incompetent to accomplish anything. They can posture and pose and talk. They cannot do things because their thinking is dysfunctional. They get elected because their voters have the same problem. They vote for the glitz.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
lakerman1 4/16/2026 10:55:56 AM (No. 2093358)
at the risk of sounding
immodest, I remind you people that I hold an
earned (not a Jill sh^t bucket) Ph.D. from
the number one school in the world, with a triple
major Political Science, Public Administration
Business administration - and I am always one step behind DJT
on these matters. (The number 2 school in my field? Harvard.)
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Mcscow sailor 4/16/2026 12:19:06 PM (No. 2093400)
31. Speaking as someone who knows intimately about the 79 crunch…it’s akin to the famous Carson-caused toilet paper crunch. A sudden fear, limited pumps unable to handle much more frequnt trips to keep tanks topped off, drainage on the 30 day hose from refineries to consumers, inventory increases in gas tanks and in just in case Jerry cans (my neibor had 50 gallons jic)…all added up to shortfalls at the end of the hose while tankers were lined up and refineries were cranked up.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
rushie 4/16/2026 1:31:36 PM (No. 2093437)
We. have no refineries.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
padiva 4/16/2026 1:35:20 PM (No. 2093438)
#3 I always appreciate your comments. I was praying for you while you were absent from L.com.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
MickTurn 4/16/2026 1:47:50 PM (No. 2093443)
David Hogg, aptly named, Don't get between him and a Camera, you won't survive!
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
DVC 4/16/2026 2:48:27 PM (No. 2093466)
Hogg boy keeps making everyone certain that he is very stupid.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
DVC 4/16/2026 2:52:27 PM (No. 2093467)
Re #1. There are world wide markets in various commodities. If there is a shortage of wheat in Austrailia....we may have no shortage HERE, but the WORLD is now short of wheat....and the WORLD prices adjust.
Local thinking is missing out on reality....markets in many products are NOT local, but global. And far away shortages affect the global supply and global price.
And if Russia, Australia and Argentina all have record wheat crops in one year....US wheat prices will be depressed, even though we may have no excess wheat here.
If you want to understand prices.....you must understand that markets are global. Thinking local gets wrong answers.
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So # 9, would it be accurate to say that, when a commodity is less available, consumers are to a certain extent vying/competing for that commodity by what they’re willing to pay? Does that make sense??!
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
3XALADY 4/16/2026 4:44:42 PM (No. 2093496)
#3 And you were missed. I was glad to see you back.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
DVC 4/16/2026 6:45:40 PM (No. 2093530)
Absolutely correct, #10, as long as your "consumers" group includes ALL worldwide consumers of whatever commodity you are thinking about.
If Japan is short on soybeans and wants to buy more....they could drive up the price that we pay here. If Argentina is overrun with wheat, selling it cheap....it hurts our wheat farmers because the world prices drop.
And never doubt that marketing middlemen try their damnest to twist the market changes to their benefits and that the CAN distort things for a while,
like pretending that shortages still exist after they are demostrably gone, no shortage. Prices jump up FAST in any perceived shortage.... (middle men) and slide down slowly when supply is restored....(middlemen). Middlemen are the 'friction' in the system, and they help, and they hurt, both.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Hazymac 4/16/2026 6:51:03 PM (No. 2093532)
Hogg was at Harvard, not because he was an excellent student, but because he was an antigun activist. Harvard is an overrated degree factory.
Perhaps some of Harvard's professional schools still maintain a high standard of excellence, but undergrad, the Yard was no great shakes more than half a century ago. My roommate at Virginia (where we were not freshmen, but first year men) from Wellesley, Massachusetts had been accepted into Harvard, but knew that over 80% of undergrads at Harvard were on the Dean's List. They were almost giving away the grades. Few if any flunked out or jumped out the dormitory sixth floor window. Therefore, he chose Mr. Jefferson's U, knowing that it was more intellectually rigorous. It was, and probably still is.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
DVC 4/16/2026 6:55:58 PM (No. 2093533)
Again, re #10, vying is the perfect word...... For example. Suppose the price of wheat jumped up....a farmer somewhere might be feeding cheap wheat to his animals, so if it got more expensive, he might substitute soybeans or milo (I'm no farmer, maybe this wouldn't suit some animals). But a bread maker can't switch to milo or soybeans for bread, so the baker has to buy wheat flour and pay the extra.
But choosing and switching are real world responses to price fluctuations. Maybe one year oats get super cheap.....so horse owners start feeding more oats to horses, buying less other kinds of horse feed.
Prices and supply, choices, where possible....ALL are part of the literally billions of instantaneous decisions that make up the "world market". The Soviets literally drove themselves insane trying figure out how the USA managed to have the "right amount" of all those myriad of products....kept trying to steal our "magical method of market planning".....since they believed ONLY in central planning, trying to have five year plans for all things.
Crazy and impossible, and guaranteed shortages of one thing, and gluts of other things.
They refused to believe that free markets are self regulating.
Now.....what we have in the world is a "semi-free" market with everybody and their dog desperately trying to tip things in their favor, and mostly failing,thank goodness.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
mifla 4/17/2026 8:23:52 AM (No. 2093687)
I thought this guy's 15 minutes of fame were up, then I realized that it was CNN.
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