"Oil Prices Recede and Stocks Gain as Investors Eye Peace Talks" Today's NYT
This is gambling, not investing. For some, who make their moves as if they knew what Trump was going to do in advance, it may be criminal.
Trump has demonstrated that depending on fossil fuels is a mug's game. You can never be secure when it's so easy to cut your lifeline.
"Hard to imagine what more he could do..." Oh, I can think of plenty. Like using ICE to arrest his opponents.
Universal health care and guaranteed income will become mainstream fast. If the tech bros were truly smart, they'd be pushing hard for a strong social safety net. Otherwise, if mass unemployment happens, it's torches and pitchforks time.
Why such obsession with burning stuff? It should be limited to kids toasting marshmallows on camping trips. Every dollar spent on energy sources that produce CO2 is a dollar not spent on solar, wind, geothermal, and insulation.
I asked several AIs, including Grok(!), what effects of Trump's proposed bombing of power plants would have on Iran's civilian population. Their analyses were all in fundamental agreement on the terrible cascade of consequences. No one will have any excuse for saying, "I didn't know."
#Iran #AI
It's too dangerous for Vance, so I'm sending Witcoff and my son-in-law. ??? That sounds weird. Did he clear this with Ivanka?
Destroying the power plants would turn off the pumps that deliver water for drinking, irrigation, & sanitation. Dialysis equipment & hospital refrigerators would shut down. The old, sick, children, & pregnant women would be among the first to die in the brutal summer heat from thirst and disease.
To blockade the Strait of Hormuz is to impose a partial blockade on every country that depends on oil, gas, & fertilizer passing through the strait. Iran won't get most of the blame. We will.
#Iran
The Midwest Dining Secret is the potluck dinner served in a church hall. Some of those church ladies are really good cooks.
For this US citizen, the encouraging thing about keeping an eye on politics abroad, including in the UK, is that I'm constantly reminded that US voters aren't uniquely stupid.
It's amusing to watch, but very dangerous with unstable personalities like Trump and Hegseth.
"Load sixteen tons and what do you get? Another day older and deeper in debt! St Peter don't you call me 'cause I can't go, I owe my soul to the company store." Tennessee Ernie Ford.
Or to a bank for student loans. Capitalists have lost their willingness to pay a living wage.
"Load sixteen tons and what do you get? Another day older and deeper in debt! St Peter don't you call me 'cause I can't go, I owe my soul to the company store." Tennessee Ernie Ford.
Or to a bank for student loans. Capitalists have lost their willingness to pay a living wage.
Better Patel passed out drunk than Hegseth cold sober.
On the other hand, he can do less damage passed out than Hegseth can dried out.
The best people. The very best people.
No matter how hard Trump tries to visualize his intention, he just can't manifest a real Iranian surrender.
A substantial record of publication in non-peer-reviewed journals is required. Speaking in tongues will satisfy the foreign language requirement.
JD Vance is the Vicar of Trump on Earth. He lies ex cathedra.
Nah. We have lots of young people who want to work and raise families. Most of them are just south of the border. Except for the ones Miller's husband and friends have locked up in concentration camps.
A history of Christian violence? When does the first volume come out?
Keep in mind that when Vance talks about theology, he is speaking ex cathedra as the Vicar of Trump on Earth.
This from a leader (?) of a Party that for decades weaponized religion to use abortion to give greed a moral stealth coating.
Keep in mind that when Vance talks about theology, he is speaking ex cathedra as the Vicar of Trump on Earth.
#PopeLeo #JDVance
I'm glad to see definitive proof that Trump is not Jesus. You never see Batman and Bruce Wayne in the same photo, or Superman and Clark Kent. This clinches it for Trump and Jesus.
New York Times headline: "JD Vance Says the Pope Should Be More Careful When Talking About
Theology". Vance, speaking ex cathedra, has corrected the Pope's misunderstanding of Catholic theology.
#JDVance
I like it that doctors at a hospital where I get care usually wear badges reading DOCTOR in 2" bold caps. It's a teaching hospital, and it helps to be able to tell them from high school students on a field trip. (Geriatric perspective.)
In 2025, about 35% of China's total crude oil supply came through the Strait of Hormuz. They have stated they will not honor Trump's blockade. This is extremely important to China. What happens when a US destroyer tries to stop a China bound tanker?
#StraitofHormuz #Blockade