Don't blame me, I voted for the other guy. (Politics General)

Oil demand is starting to crater again.

The price bumped up briefly due to the whole Red Sea thing and the Saudis announcing yet another production cut.

But Brent Crude is now back below 80 and dropping like a stone. 75.15 when I checked last.

The demand just isn’t there, the US is producing record amounts, and OPEC+ can’t risk going much lower with sacrificing market share.

Even a full on war in the middle east likely won’t bump prices up that much.

There’s just a glut in the market and not a lot of major buying going on.

@Zincy
‘DRILL BABY DRILL’

Because nothing says ‘Winning’ like spending more money to make something no one is buying.

Oh yea im aware. its just a test of his standard.

Durkan served as the former mayor of Seattle in 2020, during which she provided “aid and comfort” to the “Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone.” H.F. CHAZ was a self-appointed separation from the state of Washington. Wheeler was the mayor of Portland in 2020 when the attempted firebombing of the federal courthouse occurred, which he facilitated through his inaction. While it’s not a perfect one-to-one comparison, as I mentioned, it serves to test your standard.

@omeggga
We need to get the Tories the hell out of leadership, they have been in charge for nearly 15 years now and they’ve done nothing but make the country worse

Trump’s fuck-buddy is, ironically, partly to blame.

Europe’s shift toward renewables, to wean off Russian gas actually ended up revising down projections of when we would start hitting peak demand from the mid 2030s down to starting in 2028ish.

@YourPalContrail
I think they should be questioned for the inactivity in the very least. No idea how much of a part they had, but if it’s discovered they played a role, than a ban might be warranted.

based ideological consistency. good shit you passed my test.

I’ve always loved this defense. “Trump’s not a criminal, he’s just very stupid.” So stupid in fact that he apparently didn’t know that swapping out the official electors in Georgia for his toadies was illegal.

Well I do believe he’s incredibly stupid, but there’s also many recordings of him expressing that he knows the fake electors strategy was illegal. He still didn’t care.

@Dustcan
This is obviously another stalling tactic. Even the dumbest, most incompetent lawyer on his legal team cannot be unaware that, even in the unlikely case where he truly didn’t know that election-tampering was a crime, ignoring the law is no excuse. That kind of straw-grasping just shows how desperate they are.

@Dustcan
Sounds like he’s dangerously stupid and should be jail for his own safety and those around him if that’s the case.

@CaptainXtra
Excuse me what the actual fuck lmao

This man… is one of the dumbest motherfuckers I think I’ve ever seen.

How in the blue gumball fuck would any of THAT be even remotely legal?

I genuinely don’t know if this belongs here or one of the nerd threads, but conspiracy weirdos are an actual political faction now and Epstein is a political topic so I’m guessing here.

Today we learned that Epstein hid his plans in plain sight but also the one place nobody would think to look for them. In episodes of Johnny Test.

@CaptainXtra
That’s the kind of “tit for tat” that was to be expected from House Republican, I guess.
Joke’s on them, though. Even if the Supreme Court were to let its partisanism show by upholding that frivolous decision, the only states where Biden would be barred from the ballot would be the ones where his victory is already unlikely anyway. In other words, just that much less ground to cover on his campaign trail.

@♥♥Princess♥♥Celestia♥♥
I refuse to believe this isn’t engagement-bait trolling, to believe someone grows up to be this cerebrally dysfunctional without dying before reaching however the hell old she is. Jesus fuck, it’s not that deep!

The law does distinguish between “knowingly” and “unknowingly” committing a crime. But for the most part all the latter does is drop the penalty to “negligence”. It doesn’t get you off the hook, it just recognizes that you stumbled into criminality rather than walked into it.

Which is besides the point anyway, Trump is already on record several times just in his deposition to admitting that he knew what he was doing. As Ereiam said this is just a stall tactic, same as Trump has done for his literally thousands of lawsuits across literally decades.

@Dustcan
Wait until you get into the bullshit known as “strict liability.” I know such laws are all over the traffic code, or at least the Utah Traffic Code.

Tanya Chutkan, the judge presiding over Trump’s election interference case, has been swatted.

@BlitztheDragon
And who wants to bet that Trump will shed crocodile tears at best? Cultists and their leaders aren’t laughing matters.

Hell I wouldn’t hold my breath for even that. Best case scenario he calls it a Democrat false flag.

Now, regardless of who the one getting swatted is, I’d say above all this is an indictment of our hypermilitarized police state, that calling 911 can be weaponized to get somebody hurt or killed.

Trump has repeatedly stated that his own VP should’ve been executed. He’s long dropped any pretext.

@♥♥Princess♥♥Celestia♥♥
Holy shit, someone watched Johnny Test?

Intentionally?

I used to watch it as a kid. Granted, I wasn’t hard to entertain.

You know I don’t really get why in the school sports debate why people don’t just suggest having trans school athletes be on a few months or a year at most of HRT/puberty blockers to compete on competitive events(recreational events should be a free for all frankly who gives a shit there)

If they are already out enough to compete on a competitive circuit then their parents should be aware they are trans and they should have the ability to get blockers or HRT

And since school competitive events are less stringent on their criteria for entry and play(how many of them even do anti-doping tests?) then the criteria for trans athletes should be also lesser

It’s arguably the most fair way to do this(I will say that a blanket trans sports ban in schools is more unfair than allowing full access to trans athletes in school, medical treatment or no)

@♥♥Princess♥♥Celestia♥♥
I don’t think this paranoid schizophreniac is a reliable source on anything let alone Epstein