<![CDATA["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."]]>"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."

~ Wajahat Ali with Audrey Hanson


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https://thelefthook.substack.com/p/how-the-illegal-iran-war-is-profiting

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/topic/833b5590-3bed-4322-b2d3-909e9e5d540f/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.RSS for NodeTue, 28 Apr 2026 05:25:30 GMTWed, 01 Apr 2026 14:19:55 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to "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." on Wed, 01 Apr 2026 20:29:30 GMT]]>@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.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/Eetschrijver/statuses/116331339475680145https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/Eetschrijver/statuses/116331339475680145Wed, 01 Apr 2026 20:29:30 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to "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." on Wed, 01 Apr 2026 20:16:32 GMT]]>"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


/18

https://www.editorialboard.com/there-will-be-no-victory-intel-analyst-expects-ground-invasion/

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://toad.social/users/wdlindsy/statuses/116331288476216469https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://toad.social/users/wdlindsy/statuses/116331288476216469Wed, 01 Apr 2026 20:16:32 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to "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." on Wed, 01 Apr 2026 20:08:03 GMT]]>@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.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://toad.social/users/wdlindsy/statuses/116331255104091076https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://toad.social/users/wdlindsy/statuses/116331255104091076Wed, 01 Apr 2026 20:08:03 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to "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." on Wed, 01 Apr 2026 20:06:43 GMT]]>"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


/17

https://www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/trump-must-now-fix-the-global-mess

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://toad.social/users/wdlindsy/statuses/116331249912851406https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://toad.social/users/wdlindsy/statuses/116331249912851406Wed, 01 Apr 2026 20:06:43 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to "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." on Wed, 01 Apr 2026 20:05:00 GMT]]>@donray @wdlindsy kaiju-sized - it won't be pretty

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://indieweb.social/users/akamran/statuses/116331243162533676https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://indieweb.social/users/akamran/statuses/116331243162533676Wed, 01 Apr 2026 20:05:00 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to "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." on Wed, 01 Apr 2026 20:02:03 GMT]]>@wdlindsy He's always been all strut and bluster.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/Eetschrijver/statuses/116331231543942953https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/Eetschrijver/statuses/116331231543942953Wed, 01 Apr 2026 20:02:03 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to "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." on Wed, 01 Apr 2026 20:00:20 GMT]]>"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


/16

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://toad.social/users/wdlindsy/statuses/116331224796648146https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://toad.social/users/wdlindsy/statuses/116331224796648146Wed, 01 Apr 2026 20:00:20 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to "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." on Wed, 01 Apr 2026 19:56:36 GMT]]>"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


/15

https://newrepublic.com/article/208446/donald-trump-presidency-free-fall

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://toad.social/users/wdlindsy/statuses/116331210124399394https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://toad.social/users/wdlindsy/statuses/116331210124399394Wed, 01 Apr 2026 19:56:36 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to "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." on Wed, 01 Apr 2026 19:52:40 GMT]]>"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


/14

https://statuskuo.substack.com/p/the-paper-tyrant

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://toad.social/users/wdlindsy/statuses/116331194662489975https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://toad.social/users/wdlindsy/statuses/116331194662489975Wed, 01 Apr 2026 19:52:40 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to "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." on Wed, 01 Apr 2026 19:51:27 GMT]]>@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.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://toad.social/users/wdlindsy/statuses/116331189887658247https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://toad.social/users/wdlindsy/statuses/116331189887658247Wed, 01 Apr 2026 19:51:27 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to "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." on Wed, 01 Apr 2026 19:50:11 GMT]]>"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


/13

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/mar/31/us-average-fuel-prices-iran-war

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://toad.social/users/wdlindsy/statuses/116331184888721375https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://toad.social/users/wdlindsy/statuses/116331184888721375Wed, 01 Apr 2026 19:50:11 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to "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." on Wed, 01 Apr 2026 19:49:07 GMT]]>@akamran @wdlindsy

A very large one.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.online/users/donray/statuses/116331180706113420https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.online/users/donray/statuses/116331180706113420Wed, 01 Apr 2026 19:49:07 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to "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." on Wed, 01 Apr 2026 19:48:11 GMT]]>@wdlindsy those other countries are going to have to put us down like a rabid animal eventually

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://indieweb.social/users/akamran/statuses/116331177028699718https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://indieweb.social/users/akamran/statuses/116331177028699718Wed, 01 Apr 2026 19:48:11 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to "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." on Wed, 01 Apr 2026 19:47:46 GMT]]>"Maybe he even believes the US economy won’t be affected by sharply higher oil prices, fertilizer shortages for US agribusiness, slowdowns in supplies of critical materials like helium, disruptions to international shipping far beyond the Strait of Hormuz, that sort of thing."


/12

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://toad.social/users/wdlindsy/statuses/116331175363866190https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://toad.social/users/wdlindsy/statuses/116331175363866190Wed, 01 Apr 2026 19:47:46 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to "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." on Wed, 01 Apr 2026 19:47:03 GMT]]>"Trump is clearly enjoying living in a complete fantasy world where the US can simply walk away from the mess it made and let other countries figure out how to deal with it."

~ Marty Kelley


/11

https://www.wonkette.com/p/trump-says-seven-impossible-things

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://toad.social/users/wdlindsy/statuses/116331172528984474https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://toad.social/users/wdlindsy/statuses/116331172528984474Wed, 01 Apr 2026 19:47:03 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to "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." on Wed, 01 Apr 2026 19:44:46 GMT]]>“'I think he’s gone.' Trump’s former White House lawyer Ty Cobb says Trump is 'clearly insane'."


/10

https://www.threads.com/@mikesington/post/DWl6WmhCbOC

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://toad.social/users/wdlindsy/statuses/116331163581712521https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://toad.social/users/wdlindsy/statuses/116331163581712521Wed, 01 Apr 2026 19:44:46 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to "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." on Wed, 01 Apr 2026 19:38:59 GMT]]>"A new CNN poll shows Donald Trump’s approval rating on the economy has fallen to a career low of 31%, with most Americans saying his policies have worsened economic conditions. Rising gas prices—linked to the Iran conflict—are a major factor, with many households reporting financial strain and cutting back on spending."


/9

https://aaronparnas.substack.com/p/news-trump-moves-closer-to-leaving

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://toad.social/users/wdlindsy/statuses/116331140867044523https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://toad.social/users/wdlindsy/statuses/116331140867044523Wed, 01 Apr 2026 19:38:59 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to "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." on Wed, 01 Apr 2026 15:43:38 GMT]]>@wdlindsy
Which means those won't be available if needed in the next 5 years at minimum...

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.top/users/RainbowFrog/statuses/116330215429388410https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.top/users/RainbowFrog/statuses/116330215429388410Wed, 01 Apr 2026 15:43:38 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to "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." on Wed, 01 Apr 2026 15:27:34 GMT]]>@wdlindsy

And he did that by destroying an enormous stock of very expensive weapons, that won't be replaced for years...
If somebody, anybody, had wanted the destruction of these weapons, they would have needed a gigantic attack, or sabotage... 🤔

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.top/users/RainbowFrog/statuses/116330152240854161https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.top/users/RainbowFrog/statuses/116330152240854161Wed, 01 Apr 2026 15:27:34 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to "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." on Wed, 01 Apr 2026 15:18:06 GMT]]>@wdlindsy it hits me every time how cheap gasoline and diesel are in the USA.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://akademienl.social/users/EvelineSulman/statuses/116330115017273312https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://akademienl.social/users/EvelineSulman/statuses/116330115017273312Wed, 01 Apr 2026 15:18:06 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to "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." on Wed, 01 Apr 2026 14:54:10 GMT]]>@wdlindsy Meanwhile, ?

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/WackyIdeas/statuses/116330020871939622https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/WackyIdeas/statuses/116330020871939622Wed, 01 Apr 2026 14:54:10 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to "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." on Wed, 01 Apr 2026 14:29:02 GMT]]>@wdlindsy

April Fools... year round

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mstdn.party/users/solownh/statuses/116329922047818588https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mstdn.party/users/solownh/statuses/116329922047818588Wed, 01 Apr 2026 14:29:02 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to "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." on Wed, 01 Apr 2026 14:27:39 GMT]]>"The only regime change I can see on the horizon is right here at home in November when the Republican regime loses control of Congress."

~ Lucian K. Truscott


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https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/a-vacillating-befuddled-confused

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://toad.social/users/wdlindsy/statuses/116329916620759002https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://toad.social/users/wdlindsy/statuses/116329916620759002Wed, 01 Apr 2026 14:27:39 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to "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." on Wed, 01 Apr 2026 14:27:05 GMT]]>"During the 2024 presidential election, Donald Trump promised that if he were elected president again, he would reduce the price of a gallon of gas by 50% within a year of taking office. '12 months from January 20th… your gasoline for your car is going to be 50% cheaper,' Trump declared at a speech to the Detroit Economic Club on October 10, 2024. 'That’s a big thing.'

~ Judd Legum and Rebecca Crosby


/7

https://popular.info/p/the-tale-of-the-tape-trump-repeatedly

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://toad.social/users/wdlindsy/statuses/116329914384354498https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://toad.social/users/wdlindsy/statuses/116329914384354498Wed, 01 Apr 2026 14:27:05 GMT