Oil is a physical commodity, the check always comes due and price will always eventually match reality.

Until a wealthy nation runs fully out of stockpiles, we can pretend this crisis is one that only affects the global south while fully believing we can supply enough oil for wealthy nations. As soon as a nation sees oil reserves measured in days and buys a shitload of crude, that illusion dies.

Damn, maybe we should elect fewer people who are obviously disintegrating before our eyes.

The U.S. has 4 foreign relationships it actually cares about now: Israel, followed distantly by Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the UAE. Everyone is basically just some kind of toy and/or food

Crazy that Trump is nationalizing Spirit Airlines

This part is so funny

Stupid business plot, teracorporations see the Democratic base get increasingly radicalized against their existence and try to push the narrative in the other direction, radicalizing them further. Atp stenography for the neofascists seems to them like the only way to prevent the coming wave.

Cenk Uygur: Did I miss the requirement to agree with all of his positions in order to accept his help in combating war and genocide? And do you think it's a good idea to reject allies when we desperately need them to end Israel's control over this country? I didn't ask you to marry the guy, I asked you to take yes for an answer when he's a very rare media figure in America who is willing to treat Muslims like they're human beings and say their lives matter. This is not a hard question. In reply to Mehdi Hasan, here: https://x.com/cenkuygur/status/2046763884753879081

Media March 12, 2019 Tucker Carlson Calls Iraqis “Semiliterate Primitive Monkeys” in Latest Round of Tapes The Fox News host refused to apologize for another set of remarks. Inae Oh Senior News and Engagement Editor Bio | Follow

What's a little lie for a Nazi when there are tens of millions of dollars waiting to be grifted?

Manassas Park City, the most Hispanic locality in Virginia is in

Yes +32, Harris +20

if there’s one thing i expect a CIA officer to know, it’s whether or not a given election is gonna be fair #voteyes

Way closer than I wanted, but the outstanding votes are all in counties voting overwhelmingly for YES

Good fucking lord this Virginia election is close as hell

Feels like we're reaching maximum polarization.

Also there isn't a significant enough portion of the population that does not outwardly have an opinion to register at all, last month's AP-NORC poll had a few percent undecided while this one does not.

Look at the 2018 Trump approvals compared to the House popular vote, those numbers are shockingly similar, like within a point. Not saying we're about to see Democrats win by 34% nationwide, but I don't think the generic ballot polls are accurate.

The difference is that Republicans defecting alone hurts democracy way more than Democrats defecting alone, so the "score" isn't even between the scenarios, meaning there should theoretically be more of an incentive for Dems to gerrymander than Republicans.

Someone in the quoted thread called it "giving up" on the prisoner's dilemma, when in all reality it's just prisoner's dilemma. Gerrymandering is defecting, you must defect if you expect (in this case, know) your partner will, not doing so guarantees you lose.

100% depends on context

And by people I mean Republicans

Yes +8 would terrify people nationwide, the appetite for Democratic ultra-partisan gerrymandering is insane, Prop 50 performed better than Biden did in 2020

"Few approve of how Donald Trump is handling the cost of living" – Overall: 33-67 – Immigration: 40-59 – Iran: 32-67 – Economy: 30-70 – Cost of living: 23(!)-76 "The nationwide poll was conducted April 16-20, 2026 using the AmeriSpeak® Panel, the probability-based panel of NORC at the University of Chicago. Online and telephone interviews using landlines and cell phones were conducted with 2,596 adults. The overall margin of sampling error is +/- 3.4 percentage points."

There's no other way to say it: This AP-NORC poll is atrocious for Trump.

– Overall: 33-67
– Immigration: 40-59
– Iran: 32-67
– Economy: 30-70
– Cost of living: 23(!)-76

37% of Republicans disapprove of his handling of the economy, 47% disapprove on cost of living.

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Trying to take out a carrier is basically the only "very escalatory" card to play

I've been wondering if there's any situation in which Iran lets loose the 40 years worth of ASBM stockpiles, seems so far they have no plans to do so short of a US amphibious landing.

He hasn't been this unpopular since immediately after he orchestrated a coup against Congress, he broke the 36% glass floor everyone assumed he had.

1 Protect Trans Kids University $95,965 2 Michigan $78,975 3 Penn State $43,103 4 Florida $33,647 5 Stanford $32,228 6 Washington & Lee $22,861 7 Georgia $17,027 8 Indiana $15,532 9 Arizona State $14,833 10 Notre Dame $13,128

and right now the top ten on MoneyCannon.org looks like

Ngl I saw "Alt Bureau of Labor Statistics" and almost blocked on sight lol, those "Alt [executive branch agency]" accounts are annoying as fuck

YouTube thumbnail with a circle around a Malaysian city on a map with Marvel's Venom next to in under the caption "6 MONTHS?" The implication is that US military planners have no idea how long this is going to take, also OP said Malaysia and I find transient memes funny for way too long.

US military planners:

GREEK CAPTAIN OF A PANAMANIAN-FLAGGED MALAYSIAN OIL TANKER EN ROUTE TO AUSTRALIA WITH IRAQI CRUDE: "So is the Strait open or not?"

IRGC COMMANDER, REFRESHING TRUTH SOCIAL: "Look here man, I know just as much as you do, ok?"

Which government? Civilian, theocratic, or the IRGC junta?