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Posts by Peter Clothier
Watch Fox admit that 70% of the American people disapprove of the manner Donald Trump has run the economy. He’s going to be up all night again shitposting.
The US Secretary of the Navy, John Phelan, a businessman and art collector who has never served in the military, flew at least twice on Epstein's plane with Jean-Luc Brunel, and got his job by donating millions to Trump's campaign is apparently stepping down. No word on why yet.
There seems to be a dispute on this.
Jet fuel prices are up more than 70 percent since the start of the war.
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/22/b...
Lufthansa cuts 20,000 flights to save fuel as prices soar, per FT
Texas redistricts without a vote, Republicans cheer.
Dems in Virginia respond by putting it UP FOR A VOTE OF THE PEOPLE, it passes, Republican cry foul.
Oh well. Good job Virginia!!
President Trump’s social media company, which has consistently lost money and struggled with a flagging share price, announced Tuesday that it was replacing Devin Nunes as its chief executive officer. nyti.ms/3QjNBKh
The U.S. military has used up nearly half of its stockpile of Patriot air defense interceptor missiles and heavily expended six other key missile stockpiles during its campaign against Iran, according to a new analysis.
🚨🚨BREAKING: In a huge victory for Democrats that will greatly increase their odds of winning back the House in November, Virginia voters have APPROVED the redistricting referendum.
Tucker Carlson expresses regret over supporting President Trump, saying in a video that he would "be tormented by it for a long time" and apologized for "misleading" people.
BREAKING: Trump's approval rating drops to 33% in a new AP-NORC poll
32% approval on Iran
30% approval on the economy
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1/ Looks like the FBI director is trying to fight to hold onto his job by currying favor with the president after recent revelations about his personal conduct. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Global oil stocks could fall by 900 million bbl even if ceasefire is extended, Citi says reut.rs/4tH0RYh
Tim Cook donated $1M to Trump’s inauguration.
He fawned over Trump and gifted him a 24-karat gold plaque (as Apple lobbied for tariff exemptions).
Apple donated to Trump’s White House ballroom.
And it removed ICE tracking apps from its stores following a demand from the DOJ.
Remember this.
A rising jobless rate has not been a headwind for the S&P 500. Both lines have trekked higher over the past three years.
Is the relationship breaking? @stockcharts
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Hungary’s PM-elect Peter Magyar says he would enact an ICC arrest warrant for Israeli PM Netanyahu and detain him on arrival.
The election winner said Hungary would stay a member of the International Criminal Court which his predecessor Viktor Orban began withdrawing from last year.
The FBI says that it will lead an effort to hunt for any possible connections between the seemingly unrelated deaths or disappearances of at least 10 scientists and government workers over the past few years.
The nominee to lead the Fed is an AI optimist who counts tech titans Peter Thiel and Marc Andreessen among his friends.
Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson, Esmail Baghaei, says there are no plans for a new round of talks with the US, adding that Washington is not learning its lessons from past experience and that this will not lead to good results.
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I don't think I'll ever get over Clarence Thomas ruling on cases related to Jan 6 knowing that his wife was an active participant in the attempted coup.
Or ruling on cases related to government regulations and a wealth tax knowing he took gifts from billionaires.
It's a disgrace.
BREAKING: Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer is stepping down from her Cabinet post amid a series of misconduct allegations against her and her top staffers.
Clownishly evil sociopaths like Elon Musk, Sam Altman, Peter Thiel, Marc Andreessen, Donald Trump, Stephen Miller, Larry Ellison and Benjamin Netanyahu should be *nowhere near* the levers of global power—and increasingly both the left *and* the right see it. So what do we do now?
We let the worst people on Earth become the most powerful people on Earth, at a time when the most powerful people on Earth had ready access to the tools to destroy Earth.
Those words will be on humanity's gravestone—should any of a dozen rolling disasters cause global collapse.