Really regretting putting off that panel installation.

they will just blame the next dem in the whitehouse, they cant afford to blame trump.

Wish the bastard was playing hangman.

If anything Trump was trying to prevent the change away from the petrodollar standard. That “currency” allows the US to run up debts because nobody wants the dollar to collapse and wreck everything traded in USD.

https://www.reuters.com/markets/commodities/trumps-venezuela-oil-grab-revives-petrodollar-debate-2026-01-06/

I don’t know about the quality of this site, so be skeptical: https://factually.co/fact-checks/foreign-policy/was-iran-threatening-to-abandon-petrodollar-275c36

Trump has singlehandedly destroyed the Untied States place in the world

Connect 4 is still played in two dimensions tho...

Imagine playing Connect 4, or any game for that matter, against him; halfway through the game he'd yell "STOP THE STEAL!!!!!"

The cost of filling 52 pick-ups would be astronomical!

So throwing the cards down a set of stairs, or maybe into some dense bushes.

Unlikely. Lemmy is, like, 50% doomers who think everything in their lives is hanging by a thread at any moment and that everyone else is the same.

The reality is that even the doomers have far more slack in their lives and options for alternatives than they realize. People will tighten their belts, bike or take transit, carpool, start private transit businesses, move closer to work, get jobs closer to home, move in with family/roommates, etc.

Oh please. Don't you see they always keep you squeezed just enough so the hopeless balance of inaction is protected?

I wish it were that simple. Unfortunately we still get screwed even if we don't drive, how else would food and supplies get delivered to shops? It's all dependent on fossil fuels... Everything is going to be more expensive. I guess this is what Trump supporters think "owning the libs" is.

Topped off the tanks yesterday. Since I mostly bike each tank lasts a month or more depending on how many times I have to shuttle kids.

I’d love for gas to go to $10 a gallon. I5 would be a ghost town. No traffic, save the environment (kind of). Oh yeah!

I just walk mostly

Except then you'll end up paying more for everything else too.

I want $15. Let's price everyone out of commuting.

It's crazy, this one little trick. Kicking off World War III. Why didn't the libs think of it!?

Here ya go. Fo freeeeeee!

Or human lives.

Ok, so, what is your suggestion? The people who are directly perpetrating this war are hiding behind armed guards. Have you noticed that no rightwing politician in the US has done an interview outside since September 10th of last year?

It's easy to sit at your keyboard and suggest people on the other side of the ocean fight and die for your conscience. It's harder and more time consuming to build parallel systems to support those who are against the regime.

You probably think the media is telling you what's happening over here, don't you?

“I am quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with blood. I had, as I now think vainly, flattered myself that without very much bloodshed it might be done.” -John Brown

The war isn’t just with those in power, who as someone else pointed out are far beyond the reach of the average American, it’s with our neighbors and family members that support these leaders and policies. This administration is the fruit of a rotten tree, remove it without addressing the roots and it will just grow back in some new form, maybe next year, maybe next decade. Our elected officials that oppose this admin on paper do nothing with their power to stop it. Our courts either rubber stamp it or when they do rule against it get ignored because law enforcement is complicit.

A lone wolf might strike back here and there but such actions don’t make a difference because they are quickly neutralized, their targets are easily replaceable and elevated to martyrs.

Until the opposition has some semblance of unity, leadership, and the resolve to see through what is started to the brutal, bloody, bitter end; this is America. We’ll either keep telling ourselves “next election, next release of files, next court ruling, next protest will change this” and live under perpetual disappointment and tyranny (at home and abroad), or we’ll accept violence and gamble on which side has a better resolve. Gonna get real ugly once that Rubicon is crossed, and we all know it so that’s why nobody wants to be the first. Just ask true American hero John Brown.

The background photo is from 2020 december 5th according to some image matches from 2023 and 2021.