"While the Middle East burns and Americans pay more for food and gas, Trump and his billionaire friends, such as Larry Ellison, are profiting off of war, gobbling up our data, and going all-in on AI."
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@wdlindsy those other countries are going to have to put us down like a rabid animal eventually
@akamran Well-stated. And, to think, we had a choice in the last presidential election that would so clearly not have resulted in this chaos and suffering. But some of us are so addicted to racism and misogyny that we can't see beyond the thrill of exercising those ugly beliefs as we cast our votes.
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"Average US fuel prices have exceeded $4 a gallon for the first time in four years, piling pressure on drivers as Donald Trump’s war on Iran continues to boost oil markets.
The nationwide average climbed to almost $4.02 on Tuesday, according to AAA data, capping an extraordinary rise from $2.98 just a month ago. The fuel price last reached this high in August 2022."
~ Lauren Aratani
#Trump #Iran #war #oil #gas #StraitofHormuz #economy
/13https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/mar/31/us-average-fuel-prices-iran-war
"Trump has suffered so many setbacks in the last day that I couldn’t help wonder: Has Trump become a paper tyrant? … All strut and bluster but little ability to act beyond the bounds of his authority and power."
Jay Kuo
#Trump #Iran #war #oil #gas #StraitofHormuz #economy #dementia #stupidity #narcissism #megalomania #PaperTiger
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"Trump has suffered so many setbacks in the last day that I couldn’t help wonder: Has Trump become a paper tyrant? … All strut and bluster but little ability to act beyond the bounds of his authority and power."
Jay Kuo
#Trump #Iran #war #oil #gas #StraitofHormuz #economy #dementia #stupidity #narcissism #megalomania #PaperTiger
/14"The other day your faithful podcast host argued that Donald Trump’s presidency is in free fall in terms of public opinion. Now the signs are even clearer: His approval ratings have dropped below 40 percent in The New York Times’ polling averages and in two other sets of averages as well. That’s a critical milestone."
~ Greg Sargent
#Trump #Iran #war #oil #gas #StraitofHormuz #economy #dementia #stupidity #narcissism #megalomania #ApprovalRating
/15https://newrepublic.com/article/208446/donald-trump-presidency-free-fall
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"The other day your faithful podcast host argued that Donald Trump’s presidency is in free fall in terms of public opinion. Now the signs are even clearer: His approval ratings have dropped below 40 percent in The New York Times’ polling averages and in two other sets of averages as well. That’s a critical milestone."
~ Greg Sargent
#Trump #Iran #war #oil #gas #StraitofHormuz #economy #dementia #stupidity #narcissism #megalomania #ApprovalRating
/15https://newrepublic.com/article/208446/donald-trump-presidency-free-fall
"People are tired of this mad king act. The reality is it’s not going to be one single thing. It is this constant sense of unaccountable, imperious governance—of his focus being on things like invading and occupying a major American city, or building himself a ballroom palace, instead of on regular people’s experiences, the cost of living, the crises that regular people are going through all over the country."
~ Leah Greenberg
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"Trump has suffered so many setbacks in the last day that I couldn’t help wonder: Has Trump become a paper tyrant? … All strut and bluster but little ability to act beyond the bounds of his authority and power."
Jay Kuo
#Trump #Iran #war #oil #gas #StraitofHormuz #economy #dementia #stupidity #narcissism #megalomania #PaperTiger
/14@wdlindsy He's always been all strut and bluster.
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"People are tired of this mad king act. The reality is it’s not going to be one single thing. It is this constant sense of unaccountable, imperious governance—of his focus being on things like invading and occupying a major American city, or building himself a ballroom palace, instead of on regular people’s experiences, the cost of living, the crises that regular people are going through all over the country."
~ Leah Greenberg
"Trump is at a point in his Mad Kingy delusions that he cannot negotiate with any one, over any thing - he can only dictate, attack, and demand that his foes YIELD and BEND THE KNEE."
~ Simon Rosenberg
#Trump #Iran #war #oil #gas #StraitofHormuz #economy #dementia #stupidity #narcissism #megalomania #MadKing #ApprovalRating
/17https://www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/trump-must-now-fix-the-global-mess
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@wdlindsy He's always been all strut and bluster.
@Eetschrijver Yes, a perfect incarnation of Shakespeare's lines about a tale told by an idiot full of sound and fury strutting and fretting his hours.
Then the candle blows out.
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"Trump is at a point in his Mad Kingy delusions that he cannot negotiate with any one, over any thing - he can only dictate, attack, and demand that his foes YIELD and BEND THE KNEE."
~ Simon Rosenberg
#Trump #Iran #war #oil #gas #StraitofHormuz #economy #dementia #stupidity #narcissism #megalomania #MadKing #ApprovalRating
/17https://www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/trump-must-now-fix-the-global-mess
"The markets are badly misreading Donald Trump. This morning, I interviewed a career intelligence analyst who goes by the Bluesky handle Shipwreck. He thinks it’s unlikely that he will announce the war’s end. Instead, it’s more likely he will announce its escalation. The goal, he said, might be placing ground troops on islands in the strait to reopen it to shipping."
~ John Stoehr
#Trump #Iran #war #oil #gas #StraitofHormuz #economy #stupidity #narcissism
/18https://www.editorialboard.com/there-will-be-no-victory-intel-analyst-expects-ground-invasion/
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@Eetschrijver Yes, a perfect incarnation of Shakespeare's lines about a tale told by an idiot full of sound and fury strutting and fretting his hours.
Then the candle blows out.
@wdlindsy Well, I guess his bluff is about to be called, which will be a good thing. And of course he's always been all hat and no cattle.
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