Month Thirteen: Oil Barons | Dad, How Did You Meet Mom? | Barack Hussein Obama

[Anoat]

Letting Elon's Gen Z DOGE dudes run the white house socials was a mistake

[Tymon]

It isn’t them. It’s Steven Cheung.

[Tyrath]

https://x.com/WhiteHouse/status/2029566106650767581

https://x.com/SteeloAndKri/status/2029569803367727566

[Outlaw]

U.S. crude soared 35.63% for the biggest weekly gain in the history of the futures contract dating back to 1983. Brent jumped about 28% for its biggest weekly gain since April 2020.

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/06/iran...l-futures.html

[6souls]

https://x.com/atrupar/status/2030298057024086261
https://x.com/atrupar/status/2030302362351317335
https://x.com/atrupar/status/2030303379998539788

[Tymon]

All intentional theater to fire up the boomers. War support +5%

[Mrbeansman]

Man I remember when "speak American" was a meme and not something said by actual people in politics.

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[Outlaw]

"As we achieve a historic transformation in Venezuela, we're also looking forward to the great change that will soon be coming to Cuba," Trump said. "Cuba's at the end of the line. They're very much at the end of the line. They have no money. They have no oil. They have a bad philosophy. They have a bad regime that's been bad for a long time."

He added, "But Cuba's in its last moments of life as it was. It'll have a great new life, but it's in its last moments of life the way it is."

https://abcnews.com/Politics/trump-s...y?id=130847707

[Tymon]

Marco Rubio allegedly is stumping internally to become the new governor general of sorts, over Cuba, after they freedom-ify it.

[Tymon]

https://x.com/jamiedupree/status/2030647663767568694

Article 1 section 7 of the Constitution says that this is irrelevant since any passed bill becomes law in 10 business days even if POTUS doesn't sign it

Though that is itself kinda irrelevant since Mike Johnson can just adjourn Congress indefinitely

So you could have a scenario where Mike Johnson gets a bill passed but then adjourns congress, nuking his own passed bill, just to appease Trump. Pretty on brand tbh

[Milkster]

This is so... exhausting. Like mentally it seems so hopeless. And if you dont pay attention for a day, the government has kidnapped someone or dropped a bomb on some innocent bystanders. I don't understand the long game if you destabilize the planet and send everything into chaos, then what? Once money becomes useless and all societal norms fall apart

[Byrthnoth]

None of these people are longterm thinkers. I'd be shocked if they have any discernable strategy that goes beyond the midterms right now and I'm probably giving them too much credit. We gave our most deplorable people incredible power. Their plans don't make sense, because they're incapable of seeing the big picture and coming up with good plans or they wouldn't be our most deplorable people. tbf I hesitate to even call them stupid because I think stupidity is pitiable and they're actually something worse, ignorant, petty, and happy about it.

Apart from the drip drip drip of terrible news, the other hard part is that it doesn't matter if any of the people on this forum know jack shit about what's going on. The only people who seem to care about the stuff the admin is doing are liberal-leaning, highly educated nerds that read explainer pieces, aka probably permanent democrats at this point. We're all just making ourselves miserable and we won't end up voting for Trump acolytes either way. It feels bad to not know, in the sort of bearing-witness vein, but at this point I'm honestly trying to stay just informed enough that if there's going to be some big action / uprising I'm in it and otherwise I don't need to know the bio of the thousandth kid they send to a kid-jail staffed with pedophiles.

[Rhyis.]

both the long and short game is to make a small group of individuals gazillions of dollars

[Infini]

This is so... exhausting. Like mentally it seems so hopeless. And if you dont pay attention for a day, the government has kidnapped someone or dropped a bomb on some innocent bystanders. I don't understand the long game if you destabilize the planet and send everything into chaos, then what? Once money becomes useless and all societal norms fall apart

Honestly you have to switch off from the constant bullshit sometimes because all this shite happening is because of corruption and incompetence, the first is the reason that Orange Bollocks is even in the White House at all when he should have been left to rot in a cell for the rest of his days and the other is that he deliberately appointed idiots, losers and sycophants to key roles they're unfit to be in in the first place. It's going to be a long fucking year but the only thing we can hope for is that he fucks up so badly that by November there's a Blue Deluge that sinks all these Regressive Party fuckwits who refused to act to do their job.

If you want a preview of what's to come and need a bit of positivity, look at Hungary right now, Orban is the PoS the Republicans have been basing their power play on for years not to mention he's a Russian Tool that's been stymying EU support for Ukraine the last few years but that fucker despite rigging the game in his favour with gerrymandering and media manipulation is now facing an election he is forecast to lose because he bottled the economy so badly even his propaganda apparatus isn't turning the tide in his favour anymore, hell he's reportedly turning to the Vatniks for help as he gets more desperate. I'm hoping that fucker gets reefed from power next month if only because it would be an improvement for everyone after 12 years of his shit. I could see a repeat of it happening in November in the US, high prices, a pissed off population and an endless parade of failures, fuck ups and braindead stupidity might be able to allow the Dems to take the House AND the Senate and if they can get a majority in BOTH houses it would put that Orange Bollock's balls in a vice for the remainder of his term and at least neuter the fucker politically.

[kuronosan]

The only reason Trump wants SAVE to pass so bad is specifically so he can find a way to legally fuck the midterms. That's the only reason.

[6souls]

The Melania film comes to Prime Monday, March 9th

[Qalbert]

[Tymon]

[6souls]

https://bsky.app/profile/acyn.bsky.s.../3mgnwgifetq2q

[6souls]

This whole Q & A. When asked about the girls school bombing, he claims that the US sells tomahawk missiles to other countries and that's how Iran acquired one. When confronted on that statement and how he is one of the only persons claiming Iran bombed themselves, he concedes that he doesn't know enough about the situation.