Spending $891 million / day plus 18 million bbl / day at an increased cost of, say, $20/bbl means $891 to the pentagon plus $360 million per day to the US economy for more costly oil.
Madness!
Who could have guessed that making war on Iran could lead to much higher oil prices?
Who knew that higher oil prices meant higher gasoline prices?
Who could have known that Iran had the means and ability to close the Hormuz strait?
Just remember: 77 million US voters wanted Trump 2.0!
#MAGA
Trumpland imagines that it is insulated from hydrocarbon prices.
#MAGA
Stocks were full: panic starts when stocks are near empty
Cutting off potable water would be devastating to the people of the gulf.
Shutting the Hormuz straits is enough to spike oil & gas prices 2 to 3*. Little is of greater interest of Joe MAGA than the cost of filling his pickup: closing the straits would impact Trump within a couple of weeks.
If you haven’t read Sam McGee do have a listen: it is about a man from Tennessee in the Klondike of the Yukon who dislikes the cold with a great twist at the end.
There is a widely held view in Canada & the Nordics: no such thing as bad weather only bad clothing.
This is a poem every Canadian youngster learned by heart: Robert Service’s the cremation of Sam McGee
m.youtube.com/watch?v=sax1...
Absolutely!
About 38% of US voters believe the sewage that spouts from the Trump White House.
And yet 38% of US voters approve of Trump.
Trump is just a symptom, the illness is the US electorate.
www.economist.com/interactive/...
You are sadly mistaken: the fever is not restricted to the US.
Here in the UK the main proponent of the disastrous Brexit Nigel Farage is ahead in the national polls and would likely be PM if an election was held today.
Canada only dodged the populist bullet because of Trump’s bullying.
Cold: yup. The thing is: it is entirely possible to be outside enjoying it skiing, hockey etc.
Now heat: AZ level summertime heat no thank you.
The UK (like Philly) miserable damp overcast winters that go on and on: no thank you.
Horse for courses I guess.
Three time GOP candidate for US president.
Twice elected as President of the United States.
Not a mistake, not some fluke.
Trump is a perfect representation of the United States in the 21st century.
Vulgar, ignorant, violent.
#MAGA
Pure hubris.
Schadenfreude.
Next time: don’t bother showing up at the Canadian embassy.
Schadenfreude.
Actually Orwell said:
“men can only be highly civilized while other men, inevitably less civilized, are there to guard and feed them.”
There are numerous fascinating data sets:
www.pewresearch.org/religion/202...
Infidelity: France unsurprisingly is least offended while puritan America is horrified
A broader tertiary education is to be applauded; basic swimming skills included. Swimming 50 yards is hardly beyond basic swimming skills.
All politics is local indeed!
Great pictures and you appear to have enjoyed the visit.
#foreverwar #maga #nohealthcare
I can’t wait to see foreign tourists being arrested and murdered for the crime of attending the football World Cup.
#maga #failedstate #shithole
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."
President Dwight D. Eisenhower on April 16, 1953
AND: there was considerable soul searching for the fate of the v. young sailors as I recall.
A US submarine sinks an Iranian vessel just outside Sri Lanka waters as a defensive act?
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
More on this subject at ~ 2:00 in the video:
bsky.app/profile/atru...
😂😂😂😂😂
#MAGA
“… 20% of … we’re going to destroy their navy…”
You need a navy to send a drone against an oil tanker?
🫏🤡 lil’ Marco
www.reuters.com/business/ene...
On a positive note: there is plenty of funding available for weapons.
The refurb budget for Trump’s personal airforce 1 seems unaffected: maybe use this aircraft to collect the great unwashed from Arabia?
“… unlike so many of our traditional allies…”
Remember the Bush administration calling fries “freedom fries” because France declined to support the US war on Iraq?
77 million US voters asked for this I do hope they enjoy what their votes will reap.
Schadenfreude.
