Or, oil commodity traders make big money, again.
I made a decision out of anger last weekend that may end up helping me.
My wife drives our truck to work becuse of her short commute. Wednesday it wouldn’t start. After spending $400 fixing it, and getting a rash from rolling around in the grass and bugs under it, and seeing all the things that were probably going to happen next, bringing on future rashes and money spent, I got so mad that I traded it in for a used 2nd gen Nissan Leaf.
The Leaf was cheap, the battery is in great condition, And I never have to put gas in an F150 again.
Welcome my EV friend. I’ve nearly forgotten what a gas station is like and I haven’t even paid much attention to consumer gas prices in years.
Huh, the war is not over after all. Who could possibly have predicted this outcome?
See what you did Belgium? Proud of yourselves now?
Well at least I guess this means Greenland’s not getting invaded this week.
I think a more honest headline would be: US bombs Iran some more because the bribes for Trump family weren’t big enough.
Dang, and gas was down to 3.55 at one point.
Better fill up!
So no ceasefire then? Israel’s still invading Lebanon and killing civilians, Gaza is fast approaching 30% of it’s original unoccupied size, the West bank is suffering daily attacks by fascist settlers and Syria is being invaded attacked as well.
when the markets opens or close, is when he declares a strike or when new info of epstein file comes up.
I genuinely don’t know how the entirety of america hasn’t gone all french about it and marched the streets until the people in those files are all keelhauled
Keep in mind that basically any example of real resistance wont be mentioned in the news. There’s probably some slogan about that.
The only real resistance is occurring in major cities, but the upside is that resistance has been significant enough to force Donald to do things differently. The major examples are Minneapolis, Chicago, Portland, and LA. In my city we handled ICE by enacting a five-year moratorium on permits for ICE facilities, but that only affects the city limits unfortunately. What’s even more astonishing is how this was done largely non-violently, which means Donald didn’t have a pretext to do worse.
There’s been a lot more quiet resistance than would seem apparent from news agencies overseas.
As for the reasons the country as a whole doesn’t revolt, I think there are three: First, we’re not a country, but fifty fiefdoms all with a different culture and different laws, and that makes it difficult to form any cohesion on a national level. (Probably it’s more appropriate to think of the US more like an EU unto itself.) Second, there’s an election in November and Republicans are polling 14% under Democrats, which is rig-proof territory, so people are expecting significant change in governance. Third, poverty here is rampant and the vast majority are working multiple jobs and 80-100 hours a week to survive, and therefore making meals happen is a vastly more important concern than fascism.
I think Donald’s recent ‘America’s State Fair’ debacle demonstrates very well how unpopular he has become. Very few people and it was a sea of green on the national mall, whereas in 2016 or 2024 you’d have likely had tens of thousands of people there.
Yes, what happened in France would be like people in the US going after their governors. Which almost all states here should be doing too. The federal government is a level beyond and more superfluous. For most Americans requiring more than a thousand miles travel just to reach DC. That’s even assuming who they want is even in DC at the time.
Then let’s not kid ourselves. Even if everyone on the east coast decided on the spur of the moment to march on DC and go after all republicans. It’s not like it was in the 18th century where they would have had to have tried to plot a path out of the region through all the revolting peasants. They will just airlift out and be hundreds or thousands of miles away. Perhaps even in another country within an hour or two. It would take the people immediately around them all turning on them suddenly to actually stand a chance of succeeding.
Even if everyone in their immediate vicinity turned on them. Slaughtering Trump his sons their wives their kids etc etc etc etc. It wouldn’t even begin to actually address any real problems. It would be cathartic and some form of late justice at the very least. But not a solution.
The only effective thing to do, is for states and more importantly cities and communities. To deny the larger state their larder and extortion. Taking stolen wealth back from the wealthy and oligarchs. Keeping and investing those resources back in the communities. The bigger state will absolutely mobilize and attack. And every time they do it will weaken them and their support. But realistically it’s the only way. Real change has to start at the bottom.
Its a painfully unfortunate situation, both the lack of labour laws preventing these ceos from paying a living wage and like you say, the system of having 50 insular groups with their own exploitative laws designed to keep it that way.
I really do hope that the future is less horrifying, but I’ve seen the state of the american political left (as in the politicians, not the people) and it’s looking to be an uphill battle.
Who knows, maybe having america start competing with the world on renewables, what with their massive industries and the RnD budgets to throw money at ‘novel’ technologies like highly emissive paints like the stuff they use on the ISS and satellite radiators to cool things off without an atmosphere, and on a lot of new buildings in the hotter countries, will push the market in the right direction.
Here’s hoping.
Historically this level of wealth inequality has always led to market crashes, which while calamitous, end up spurring positive change in and of themselves. We’ll see.
Touch wood this incoming crash doesn’t just end up being a method for the richest to get richer and the poor to die out in droves.
This level of wealth inequality is genuinely unprecedented, given that there’s one meth head currently ‘valued’ at an english Billion or an american Trillion. (For those out of the loop that’s a one, with TWELVE zeros after it)
a method for the richest to get richer and the poor to die out in droves.
I think, unfortunately, that’s a foregone conclusion. We saw in the Epstein Files that heads of state and billionaires generally know when economic crashes are coming and are able to time them well, and the spike in suicide rates during an economic crash is well-documented.
All you and I can really do is make the best choices for ourselves and try to show basic kindness to the people on our block.
Too many Republicans diddled kids and it was too difficult to redact 99 percent of the files. So it’s not important anymore.
Surely there’s enough boiling tar and feathers to give them an appropriate makeover.
Alternatively feed them enough Bromo Dragonfly to keep them seeing nothing but Bekinsky paintings until their arms and legs fall off.
Americans are not reliable! 🤯
It’s true.
The MAGA people are in for a rude awakening after the mid-terms. The populist elements of Donald’s ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ are going to expire while the provisions showing the rich in more wealth are permanent, and all the new trade deals enacted around the world after his unilateral tariffs are going to start kicking in.
The Democrats we elect in November won’t change a whole lot, but not having a rubber stamp and no longer being able to rule by fiat is going to impact the second half of Donald’s term significantly, and the continued push around the world to work around the US rather than with it is, unfortunately, going to impact all of our wealth here in the US.
So is the strait open or closed, I never can tell
https://hormuzstraitmonitor.com/
Status is “Restricted”
Edit: basically you can get through if you’re nice to Iran.
Beware that is this a vibe coded Claude app, unclear if any of the information is remotely accurate, especially given that the underlying AIS data is being spoofed and manipulated by pretty much everyone in the region
Schrodinger’s strait
Gotta earn that FIFA peace prize
So, did they get that AUMF? Or does this just count as a new 60 day “military action”?
Seems to me it’s just the same illegal and unconstitutional WAR, launched with a giant executive middle finger to congress and the American people, complimented by a kafkaesque claim that it’s for our benefit while the president’s administration profits off of it through unregulated online betting markets. They can’t even be bothered to come up with weasel-words to sell it as a defensive action - they know everyone has just accepted that it’s an undeclared war.
I cannot overstate how bad it is for Trump to be able to wage wars by default because Republicans can’t get it together to take our country back from the executive branch. Just wait until he gets bold enough to target a NATO country - maybe Greenland? Who in America would be able to stop him?
This braying pompous incompetent ass is going to get us all killed. He must be politically defeated before it’s too late and the acceptable casualties of war become the American people.
