To no surprise of anyone.
Edit: love your username, btw. I share the same sentiment!
To no surprise of anyone.
Edit: love your username, btw. I share the same sentiment!
Continued mass delusion by supporters of a demented rapist sociopath.
Hoping we can get our shit together enough in November.
It'll be a mess. Looks to me like they're planning a couple d'état. With all the militarily changes within the Pentagon and what not. Call me pedantic, but they've shown they're not afraid to resist before.
Trump has now gotten us into a war that cannot easily be gotten out of. Even if he completely withdraws today, Iran has said that they'll charge large amounts of money to use the Strait of Hormuz. Which they need now because their country has been destroyed by Trump.
Somebody needs to teach Pete Hegseth the meaning of FAFO.
His brain is soup. I've seen stumblebums under a bridge who are more coherent.
He won the war. So US can go home and let other handle the mess.
After decades of the most terrifying sci-films preparing me for this, I’m so very disappointed by how incredibly stupidly and predictably this all is transpiring.
By no measure are any “incredible means” (VR, cyber attacks, time travel, clones, mind control, etc) being employed here other than an incredibly stipid man with an incredible amount of power going incredibly unchecked by an administration incredibly obedient to the whims of a single man so incredibly corrupt and incompetent.
I feel that disappointment. But i think you're way over-estimating trump's role. There's an entire corrupt elite class that are the real constituents of this regime.
Trump's just the idiot who agreed to be hated by history so a bunch of far right oligarchs could live out their dream of looting the nation, ethnic cleansing, etc.
Correct. Trump is a symptom of the larger rot within. He's only there because the problem was already in place.
Well he actually just hoped to be loved before he died since his parents never did.
The oligarchs just told him what would make THEM love him more and they are his whole world. Listen how desperately he sounds hoping to go to heaven sometime. Its just hard to be so detached from reality and think you are I'm charge of it.
That’s how I feel too. Like it’s been super obvious for 25 years or more that America was going to devolve and collapse on itself and I’ve consumed so much media preparing for this but it’s still just staggering how fucking stupid it all is. There’s even a movie. The Lives of Others, about the Stasi in East Germany in the 80s before the wall comes down and the main guy at the end says to an ex-stasi guy something like “one day we’ll all look back on this and wonder how an idiot like you ever got in charge of anything” and even though I always think about that scene. Everything seems just so much more dumb than I could have possibly imagined.
It's pretty sad that we didn't even got a straightforward Dystopia like, say, Mad Max.
Instead we got a 1984-wrapped Stupidocracy.
Any one line of this article would be sufficient material to cause chaos for any other world leader.
Just one copied here "“We don't have to be there. We don't need their oil. We don't need anything they have, but we're there to help our allies,” he said." To confirm, his Allies didn't know his plans, didn't want or ask for his invasion. His allies are not subject to his threats for not supporting his stupidity.
American allies are going to suffer just as terribly though. They'll be forced into oil trade deals with the US, giving them a a firmer grip on the world around them. They're violently and recklessly attacking their enemies while treating their allies as assets.
Worst.
Drilling in the North Sea is ramping up. Seriously. This means every country with suspected oil reserves is throwing money into a defunct technology instead of doubling down on renewables.
My country had a plan in motion to set up a green hydrogen plant, which was planned to act as an energy reserve for Europe. I fear we will see it completely forgotten and instead the plans of surveying our coast for alledged oil reserves to come back. In the 2000's, early surveys pointed towards reserves just 30km off our shores possibly larger than the entire stock of Venezuela and Mid-East, combined, and easily harvestable.
Nobody needs this.
It could be argued though, that for the time and money taken to explore, map, develop, then extract that dinosaur juice, you could have built an entire country's worth of renewable energy sources.
Especially when you factor in that all that oil will be sold at "global market price", so none of it will result in cheaper energy for anyone.
Sincerely speaking, I hope your obviously correct argument wins when the usual suspects start talking about "alternatives".
Investing into renewables, paired with batteries and green hydrogen production makes sense.
The news where it is constantly pointed that renewables are unreliable because the sun and wind are not constant while at the same time we are getting news that solar energy production alone is reaching new output record, above fossil fuels, are nothing if not loathsome.
Pumped Hydro or simple hot sand (I shit you not) are good ways of storing excess energy without resorting to direct electrical storage solutions (which are improving year on year at a swift pace too).
There are a lot of other ways being explored too. To name but a couple; pumped geothermal storage using everything from old mines to aquifers (a few degrees C in a lot of water is a lot of energy and deep mines will add it for free), and underwater pressure energy storage (I like this one for it's simplicity and sustainability).
But you're totally correct. The oil industry has almost infinite money and power, and thus an almost unassailable influence on politics and policy.
The hope lies in the almost. With a bit of luck, things will get bad enough that the populous at large start to question whether being so dependent on other countries for the ability to move shit around is such a cracking idea when the alternative is right there, today, not in a decade when any local oil begins to flow, if there is any to be had.
A smart politician would spin a wholehearted policy shift to renewables as "ensuring the sovereignty of our nation's energy supply, the backbone of our economy, which should never be beholden to foreign governments or corporations". Done right, it could be used to rally the "rabid far right" and the "loony left" of any country to the same greater good for all of humanity.
Your argument was spot on with what was said to defend the conversion of a deactivated refinery into a hydrogen plant.
This is a relatively small country, with a small population, so achieving energy independence makes complete sense. We have a very strong solar, wind and hydroelectric instalation already in place, enough that we have already several registered days where no fossil energy nor foreign bought was necessary to supply our demand. But it is common for 90% of our produced energy to be sold (cheaply) and the energy we use to be bought.
We are an example to all and yet the distrust towards renewables is generalized, to the point many even think the wind turbines cause heat trapping where the machines are installed, leading to fires and droughts.
It is disheartening. I remember reading that 10% of all the money invested annually into the oil industry could cause renewables to leap ten years forward in research.
I am too lazy to make a list, but I am pretty sure Trump has done this exact stunt of announcing a "major policy speech coming" before. And then announcing nothing new in the speech.
And yet in this, as in too many other things, Trump continues to again and again be given the assumption of seriousness and competence. It is as if all the "serious people" in this country have the memory of a mentally challenged goldfish. Case in point, from OP:
The primetime speech, which pre-empted scheduled television programming on all broadcast networks at the request of the White House
Why oh why would the networks agree to give Trump specifically live television time? Why not have your journalists watch it first, and then report on it in the next news segment if Trump said anything relevant? Especially in this case, where it was obvious that Trump would say nothing truly time critical requiring live broadcast.
Wasn't he going to exit regardless of the deal? What the fuck are you doing Americans?
American here, can confirm. All of this is for the sake of my Netflix consumption
We literally cannot chill without it, what do you want from us
He needs to be stuffed in a lead-lined barrel and stored in an underground toxic waste disposal all site.
If I were a conservative strategist, I would be desperately trying to figure out ways to get rid of that guy before the midterms. The only question would be is it better to have several months of damage control, or go for an October martyr situation.
If this is his public address I'm going to have to start charging him for my time. I've heard all that crap in the weeks before from various, off the cuff, sound bites.
What the Epstein List is he doing?
Ludicrous claims, rambling non-sequiturs, and outright lies; sounds like anyone who tuned in got exactly what they could have expected.
Can that stupid fucker just die of a stroke? Please? Pretty please?
No not die, become paralyzed and live on for 20 years.
It’s either that that stain goes, or I go. I start to be seeing enough of this world.
His funeral, whenever it happens, will be the most bizarre event. There will be people in mourning and people celebrating. I fear that many people will be injured and even killed on that day in US. In the rest of the world just people celebrating.
What do you mean no end in sight? He said 2 to 3 weeks 🤔
He also said 2 to 3 weeks 4 and a half weeks ago. So I’d say given the current trend, ‘no end in sight’ is probably a realistic evaluation.
Remember when he said his amazing new healthcare plan to replace the ACA was "coming soon"? That was 10 years ago.
When he says anything will happen in 2-3 weeks, he means the next news cycle in 2-3 weeks should distract you from his total failure to do what he said.
Everything is 2-3 weeks away. 10 years from now, it will still be 2-3 weeks away.
INFRASTRUCTURE WEEK, BAYBEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!
2 to 3 weeks is the extent of his long term memory, no end in sight just means longer than that for him.
The rise in gasoline prices due to the effects of the war in the Middle East is sparking increased interest among consumers in electrified vehicles, according to new data released this week by car shopping site CarGurus.com.
But that interest isn’t likely to pay the dividend of a sustained spike in sales of battery electric cars, trucks or SUVs if the war ends soon and gas prices recede.
"It's kind of described as kind of a sugar rush,” observed Kevin Roberts, director of economic and market intelligence for CarGurus, in an interview. “Consumers are highly interested in fuel efficient vehicles when gas prices are going up or at a certain elevated point. Historically, we've seen that as soon as gas prices start to come down, consumers tend to go back to what they like previously, which tends to be large, large SUVs and pickup trucks.”
That view echoes comments from Cox Automotive executive analyst Erin Keating who declared during a webcast March 25, “the one genie that often goes back in the bottle is gas prices. If tensions de-escalate tomorrow and gas stabilizes at, say, $2.80, the urgency to switch power trains fades quickly. This isn't a permanent shift in consumer preference, yet. It's a conditional response to conditions that may or may not persist.”
Meanwhile, in Washington:
Trump delivers jaw-dropping and slurred Iran address that offers no end in sight to unpopular war
I think that the real problem for Trump is going to be getting an AUMF from Congress, but if we assume that the conflict does manage to continue...
Wrong, this is the moment that will create a permanent market for EVs forever, and eventually replace internal combustion vehicles altogether.
Older people have known for a long time that you can never trust oil prices to stay stable, ANYTHING can drive them up, even just a regular holiday weekend. This is a wake up call to everyone else. This happens regularly, and if we recover from this one, it will just happen again in a few years, and a few years after that. It NEVER goes down, just up.
Gas prices are now rising to a point where EVs really make sense, and are going to offer peace of mind going forward.
But then what happens when electricity is captured by barrons similar to oil? Do we move onto solar-powered or wind-powered car batteries? Hydrogen? Cause those are the only natural fuel resources that have yet to be captured because, y'know, they're natural. Shillionaire oil tycoons can't monopolize the wind, the sun, or hydrogen.
Unless, that is, they continue to fuck up the planet to the point where those resources become scarce.
I can put solar panels on my roof to charge my car, and run my house. How is some Sociopathic Oligarch going to interfere with that?
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