Trump must “do something” is the new battle cry by farm state Senators.
Senator Grassley Seeks Embargo
America First
“W diesel $6.57 in Iowa why doesn’t Pres Trump put an embargo on diesel exports like presidents in the 70s put embargoes on ag products bc food prices were inflated. High diesel prices ARE KILLING FARMERS INCOME”
Grassley’s term is not up this midterm, but Iowa Senator Joni Ernst’s term is. Trump forced her out and she retired. Now the seat is up for grabs.
Grassley’s tweets are essentially an ad for Democrat Josh Turek over Ashley Hinson, the Republican nominee.
Republicans Worried Over Diesel
The Wall Street Journal reports Worried Republicans Float Ideas to Lower Diesel, Gas Prices Before Midterms
Lawmakers have floated ideas including a federal gas-tax holiday or a ban on diesel exports, while acknowledging the Iran war is the critical driver of prices. The fighting, which started in February, has become a vulnerability for President Trump and his party, after he promised no new “forever wars” and pledged to bring down prices.
Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R., S.D.) said last week that he was open to exploring a diesel-export ban. But later he said it was up to the Trump administration to get shipping flowing again through the Strait of Hormuz. “That’ll take the pressure off,” Thune said.
The Senate has scheduled only two more weeks in session ahead of the election, and there are no plans to vote on a suspension of the gas tax or another measure designed to lower fuel prices. Even if senators did pass a bill, the measure wouldn’t make it to the president’s desk soon, as the GOP-led House recessed last week.
Some Republicans would rather not talk about it.
“See you later,” Sen. John Barrasso of Wyoming, the No. 2 Senate Republican, told a reporter who asked what Congress or the administration could do about high diesel prices. Asked on NBC’s “Meet the Press” on Sunday if he would support an export ban, Barrasso replied: “Well, the president is considering a number of different things that he can do.”
“I don’t think there’s gonna be a discernible decrease over the next 48 days before the election,” said Sen. Thom Tillis (R., N.C.), who is retiring after this term, when asked about the possibility of lowering fuel prices. Asked if there would be consequences for Republicans at the ballot box, Tillis said, “Elections are always pocketbook issues, right?”
Trump nodded to his frustration with diesel prices Monday, posting on social media that the Russia-Ukraine war has put many Russian diesel refineries out of commission. “This ridiculous and never ending War with Ukraine must be ended,” he said.
[Senator] Kennedy traveled to Kansas, Nebraska and Iowa this weekend to help raise money and campaign for embattled Republican candidates, in states Trump won by double digits in 2024. He said he is confident Republicans ultimately will prevail, but the races will be tight.
“If you told me six months ago I was gonna be having to spend my time in those three states, I wouldn’t have believed you,” Kennedy said. “Those ought to be fat-guy layups for us.”
Republican Sen. Pete Ricketts, who is trying to fend off independent Dan Osborn in Nebraska, said there is “no doubt” that rising fuel prices are putting a huge strain on farmers and ranchers in his state. But the senator said farmers and ranchers, who tend to vote Republican, understand that Iran can’t be allowed to have a nuclear weapon.
Rep. Andy Harris (R., Md.), chair of the conservative House Freedom Caucus, had pushed to vote on a gas-tax holiday before the House left town on Wednesday. But he ran into opposition from Republicans who fret that suspending the gas tax would deplete the Highway Trust Fund, which depends on gas-tax revenue.
Sen. Josh Hawley (R., Mo.) warned that it is a mistake for lawmakers not to do anything to address fuel prices before the election. Hawley said the Highway Trust Fund could be replenished later from other sources.
“For candidates who are going home and campaigning, and voters say, ‘What have you done to bring down energy prices?’ I mean, I don’t know what these candidates are going to say,” he said.
What’s Going to Happen?
Likely Nothing.
The House is on recess through the election. The Senate is scheduled to go on recess on October 3, 2026.
An export ban would also upset Trump’s energy friends. A diesel ban just points to how stupid this war has been.
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Republican Senators want Trump to do something.
He already did.
It will be a Blue Wave in November.
Cha-ching! The API’s for last week are out today. Crude had a slight build, but products rocked and dropped!
Gasoline inventories fell 2.16 million barrels in the week ending September 18. In the week prior, gasoline inventories rose by 1.46 million barrels. In the week prior, gasoline inventories were 5% below the five-year average for this time of year, according to the latest EIA data.
Distillate inventories dropped as well, by 2.164 million barrels, on top of the 1.61-million-barrel gain in the week prior. Distillate inventories were 13% below the five-year average heading into this reporting period, the latest EIA data shows.
As long as Wed’s DOE data are close to this it is EXCELLENT news for the refiners (supportive for products and crack margin prices).
2 Big reasons:
1.) NO Demand Destruction from off the chart diesel prices. (Most/I would have expected.)
2.) Nice gasoline draw to means it’ll provide crack strength too.
3.) Bonus: Draws as we’re hitting prime refinery maintanence times on 5-yr Product Inventory lows is EXCEPTIONALY constructive. Trump shouldn’t have pissed-off EPA mileage increases. (Along with a million other studipities…) It only stretches out fuel prices and inflation.
(Remind me to increase by refining holdings in the AM!)
I dont think that would work.
I would think they would just price it as on the global market.
Second it would allow trump to continue his war without feeling the pressure to stop.
Third. Cheaper people will just use more. May result in the same issue.
I would not put it past any business not to take advantage and profit off price break. From producers of oil down to the grocery stores that rely on the fuel.
Same with tax holiday
Can I just say here that it’s really fascinating how “Business Man” (double quotes on “man”) always seems to make “himself” scarce when you bring up Epstein? Same goes for Arthur and Jojo. It’s really weird how these crusaders for our children seem to be terrified of talking about the biggest sex crime ring in human history.
Nah, that would be the Pakistani gang case in the UK (250,000 victims I think?). At any rate, I always wonder where are the parents.
Mhm yes the very real Pakistani gang cases in some far away shithole. Certainly so much more concerning than the most powerful men in the world doing as they please. Deflect deflect deflect, it’s all your kind has left now that the powers that be can’t pretend it’s not real. C’mon, go ahead and tell us all where those files went? Oh wait you can’t so you’ll try to distract everyone with culture war garbage because you think everyone is as dumb as you.
Isn’t it funny how hard it is to be a divisive little shit when it’s your party the buck stops at?
<<it’s all your kind has left now>>
Only primitives think like that. “your kind”, “my kind”, you sound like a gangster (of morons). You wanna make it personal, ah? That’s all you know ah?
The Pakistani gangs were in the U.K. you fucking Amerikanaki.
Aww I hit a little nerve calling the UK a far away shithole about to break up didn’t I? I could care more about Africa, less retarded racists there and more economic power these days. Honestly though I’m not sure why the UK has people trying to immigrate there still, it smells like an ass crack and everyone looks thoroughly inbred. Nothing like hearing about those “dam pakis” from a guy with ears on his neck.
Now tell me again why I should care about the alleged Pakistani rapists of some shithole more than the most powerful men in the world again.
Not terrified of anything, especially the “Epstein files” that you are absolutely obsessed with.
Why didn’t Biden release them?
I’m all for the total releasing of anything that has yet to be released.
“Why didn’t Biden release them?”
Asked and answered – because doing so would expose Israeli sources and methods.
and a ton of democratic donors and probably a few D senators………as part of the epstein rape films……….of the Mossad and CIA.
Back to Biden again huh? Why don’t you go on and tell us who the president is right now? Say, didn’t he campaign on the full release of the files. Oh that’s weird his name is all over the files and Biden’s isn’t. Huh. I don’t see any pictures of Biden with Epstein either, that’s weird.
Y’know what else is really weird? The way you desperately try to deflect every time I bring this up. LOOK GUYS BIDEN! LOOK GUYS TRANS’D KIDS! LOOK A WEREWOLF! How about you stop dodging the question and explain why Trump refuses to comply with the law as it is written and release the files. Go ahead and explain why the GOP save for Massie is currently defending pedophiles while you’re at it.
I didn’t know I was a crusader for children. I have talked about Epstein before, suggesting that it seems to me to be pretty obvious that there is some sort of spy element in this, and that spy agencies have always been willing to engage in things like child prostitution “for the greater good.” I assume that the reason Trump and his people have gone quiet on this issue is that they have, since his re-election, been let in on what was really going on, and that for reasons I can’t imagine, they have agreed that it must be kept secret. I don’t buy for a minute the idea that Trump is being blackmailed.
Better be careful, if we cut off diesel to Europe it would be natural for them to cut off gasoline to US.
Ban diesel exports after Trump boasted for all nations to buy our oil and fuels?
Talk about driving our allies into the hands of the Chinese! Trump should pay attention to the fact that they are all getting together in New York right now and he and his sycophants are not invited to the important meetings or parties.
America is fighting a war like it is still in the 90’s/00’s. American bases and radars in the region have been destroyed. America cannot even safely operate from Jordan now. This war really has exposed Americas military limitations. Also logistically America cannot win. This is the biggest strategic military defeat in Americas history, it is quite astounding just how bad America miscalculated and misjudged this whole debacle.
Was money made by the MIC?
are they (MIC/Gov) going to adjust accordingly?
will “Americans” adjust accordingly?
Is there going to be a vote to fix the problem?
A) all of the above
B) none of the above
C) Yeah, but voting will solve the problem, right…..
It still matters to have an executive who is “less bad.” That applies to the last 2 GOP presidents who initiated pointless major wars in the 2000s. The Dems haven’t done that for 60 years. That is an integral part of welfare state redistribution for 85 years now, whatever name it calls itself. American and global life as we know it would have been radically different without it. It is not something that can be “fixed,” it can be somewhat managed. That’s all I ask.
Syria? Libya?
correct.
And before him was Biden (and his handlers)
Are we going down the rabbit hole?
>: It is already managed….(by who might be up for debate),
but now we would have to start mentioning personal names,
not just MIC/Healthcare/Finance-Stock Market
Trump said,”We win, we win, we win”
I think he is telling the truth.
He, his family and his billionaire pals made profit from Iran war.
It wasn’t America. America knew better.
It was the Geriatric Orange Pedophile and his enablers.
Energy prices are gonna go nowhere but up for the foreseeable future. Trump has shown the world he is no JFK and sucks at negotiating on the complex world stage, primarily because he is so weak and corrupt. He actually more resembles a wannabe Hitler than anything else.
Another major issue is the entire West with its centralized and exposed energy and water infrastructure is likely to be targeted by militant actors with a grudge or Western “intelligence” agencies false flag ops. The layered conventional missile and drone offense/defense is inexpensive, extremely effective, and going to be ubiquitous. The “Global South” is watching the Russo/Ukraine and the Israel/US/Iran/Iran’s allies wars with a high degree of interest and taking notes.
The West had better get a major move on getting their military industrial complexes cleaned up, removing most of the corruption and breaking up the monopolies, and reshoring critical manufacturing because we are getting way behind. Reminds me of a book I read a few decades ago, “the fast eat the slow”…
Additionally a lot of work $$$ needs to be done to harden/defend/decentralize our critical infrastructure. With the overall ineptness and corruption of current Western leadership this is gonna occur slowlyyy…
Trump can’t get anything done overseas because the players that matter don’t agree with him aligning himself with Putin, Kim Jong Un, and other dictators. He can’t be trusted to honor the agreements he signs (witness him pulling out of giving nuclear technology to the Saudis, and abandoning them to the Houthis, who are aligned with Iran).
Trump can’t do anything overseas because he’s a f’in ignorant moron
Fixed it for ya
You understate the gravity of his impact on global affairs
I don’t know much about the Houthis, but I do know that Persia is an Aryan, Shia power, whereas Saudi Arabia is a very corrupt Semitic, Sunni monarchy. I don’t see why we shouldn’t throw the Saudi royal family overboard if the opportunity offers.
As I understand it, we (meaning the Saudi air force using American technology) were bombing the Yemenis while they were suffering from starvation and cholera not very long ago. I’m not sure if the Yemenis count as Semites, but if so, that is how Semites treat their own. The Israelis are still kicking fellow Semites off their ancestral farms in various places in the territory they now occupy (which, as I understand it, has grown enormously since the State of Israel was founded).
wow! What comments this column brings out. One thing for sure about diesel prices going up. The blue wave intensifies and the Republicans show panic as the realization sets in they are moving to back row of seats in the House and Senate …… People tend to vote their pocketbook and it is getting really walloped with inflation everywheres, particularly fuel costs and that bleeding over to everything else. Unless a miracle happens and the wars with Iran and the Russian/Ukrainian mess suddenly ends with group hugs we haven’t seen anything yet! Get ready for shortages and huge inflation.
Good column Mish!
This weekend I was fueling up at the local gas station that is always 20 to 30 cents cheaper per gallon than all the other stations. They were doing a brisk business even though they had gone from $3.49/gal to $4.19 in 48 hours (my state won’t allow gas price changes more than 1X per day.)
The conversations among the people in line were quite animated, and pretty upset!
The Republicans are going to take a well-deserved beating this November. My vote-by-mail ballot arrives today, and in a deeply red county, something like a third of us vote by mail. We’ll be making our decisions starting this week.
It’s way too late for the Republicans now. The outcome is baked in already.
Wife just filled our Honda Odyssey van at 4.149. total bill 58.60. ouch!
So this includes a ban on diesel exports to Canada? Not sure that will end well. Canada exports oil to the US who makes it into deisel and then ships some of it back to Canada. If the US stops exporting deisel to Canada don’t you think Canada will limit the export of oil to the US? Not sure that there is any upside to that other than to further encourage Canada to increase its refining capacity.
An export ban on diesel would do more damage to the Canada economy than any of Trump’s tariffis. It would expose Canada weakness of a lack of West to East single pipeline to transport petroleum products. Under CUSMA export bans are prohibited, and Canada’s only realistic option, which it can legally do is to place an export ban on the 4.1 million barrels of crude a day that are exported to the US.
Canada is building the pipelines now. We need Canada’s mid-tier crude to refine into diesel and jet fuel. Would be a circular firing squad.
Bessent told us pipelines in the ME will be a quick fix. Wouldn’t that be true of Canada then? And Canada’s would be out of enemy drone range, unless Trump launches air strikes on them.
Bessent was simply jawboning markets. “Bullshit” in Professor Frankfurt’s sense of the term.
Bessent is more well-rounded professional than I thought – a currency manipulator and oil infrastructure SME! Maybe he heard it from a guy who heard it from a guy.
Lipstick, meet Pig.
Excellent post. And the comments are a treat to read. The endless bickering about democrats bad/good or republicans bad/good are hilarious to read. It just re-affirms my decision to move on was the right one watching the cackling hens scream it out. Lol.
Here’s a clue guys, I don’t know who will win but I do know who will lose and that’s the suckers and losers holding the bag. Nomad Capitalist had a great video on the topic, worth a watch for anyone with a functioning brain.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ItaIexodI2s
The only other thing I know is this…
Do worry, Trump, Walrus, GOP, and democrats will find a way to make things even worse.™
Well it’s late for me and I need to go to dreamland tonight and then relax and chill the rest of the week.
For those not counting, this is officially week eight MPO has spent repeatedly boasting of how good his life is. I believed it at first until I realized nobody that well off would spend this much time saying the same empty brag. It’s Jojo tier and- has anyone seen Jojo?
Lol. And it’s week 8 of you getting triggered every time I said I left. For years on this blog I wrote about “exit strategy” and then I was accused of not following through. Now that I’ve left I am accused of lying. Double lol.
Go back and read through all my comments on Mishtalk. Better yet, get an AI bot to harvest all my comments and you will see I laid out a blueprint, framework and timeline of everything I was doing, including which countries in a subtle way but some of you are too lazy, stupid and jealous to do the legwork to figure it out so you just whine and get triggered.
I’m out Creamer and life is good. I don’t have to worry (so far) about soaring inflation, my meals are cheap, my housing is cheap and I may eventually get around to buying a BYD car. The healthcare is good and cheap although I have no need of it yet.
When I asked what you were going to do about your situation, you came back with some kumbaya crap about your community. Lol, let me know when your community is paying for your rising fuel, rising insurance, rising housing, and everything else that’s rising. And the kicker is this isn’t real inflation yet, the real pain hits in 2030. Oh and throw in the gun violence, toxic politics, and an incompetent administration hell bent on bringing back diseases.
Good luck to ya, I am watching from a far and eating popcorn. By the way, it’s morning time for me now. Yet another way to figure out where I am based on the time cycle of my comments posts but you’re too dimwitted to figure it out. I’m sure someone here with a functioning brain will figure it out eventually.
Now I know I’m striking a real nerve with all that gum flapping. I have a job so I’m not going to hunt for hints and clues, either tell everyone the truth or I’ll just keep laughing at you. Yep, my community loves me and my gas is still pretty affordable. You’re dumber than I thought if you think you’ll escape the incoming currency crisis though.
From what I can verifiably see here, you’re a sad old man playing pretend in a comment section to make yourself feel better. What’s more, you think you’re important enough for people to sleuth after! Now that is a hoot. Sorry, but I’ve got too many people who love me to bother.
Keep laughing at “your job” while I’m laughing in my own little paradise living off investments enjoying life and watching you run on a little hamster wheel and getting nowhere fast.
And if there is a currency crisis coming, it will be YOU, a non-diversified currency holder, that will be hurt the most not me. Can you even think through your comment before you wrote it? You’re the idiot if you only have money in one currency.
And finally, what does the number of people who love you have anything to do with sleuthing?
The real hoot is why you keep getting triggered by someone who left the U.S. and is living a happy life elsewhere and why you find it so difficult to believe. That’s a hoot.
Translation: “I am retired and think that will save me. I have no one in my life who cares about me and that makes me bitter enough to roleplay being a rich expat online. No I won’t post proof or elaborate on anything.”
ha ha ha. i thought the same thing. who gives a fuck where some random dude on intertubes lives or exits or enters. he is a blowhard. maybe he’s richer than god. maybe he’s a 12 year old little girl from indonesia role playing and spoofing people on this obscure blog. it’s quite hysterical. the one thing i learned as a young man growing up in a wealthy hood of NYC is, nobody really cares how well off anyone is. if anything you just attract people who think you are an asshole for bragging about it. NOBODY CARES WHERE YOU LIVE OR EXIT OR ENTER. it’s an empire of nihilists.
photos of some rich tan fella on some beach with a harem would be nice to see ? best to live where the missiles are exiting. not entering. sun tzu and captain kangaroo wisdom. many a poor war zone immigrant in brooklyn explained this simple wisdom decades ago.
I hope somebody is having a good time. It sounds as if you are in the Philippines, where they like Americans and labor is cheap. Some old British ladies used to live in nursing homes in India for the same sort of reason. Stay well and enjoy all that humble service. It’s not my taste.
People tend to vote their wallets.
“Its the economy stupid”
James Carville, 1992
not true
Instead of calling for ending diesel exports, senators should call for ending the export of war and weapons.
Unfortunately the value of war / weapon exports is much larger than the value of diesel exports so if one of them is getting curtailed it will be diesel since it’s worth less.
Does the president declare a national emergency, drawing attention to the aftermath. of his unpopular war, and ban US diesel exports? If he could, he would also likely ban Michigan survey reports on US consumer sentiment. The long term annual average MCS is about 84. It was 66 and 72 respectively in 2009 and 2010 in the great recession. In 2025, the 1st year of #47, it averaged 58 and in 2026, it currently is averaging 52. Will the monthly average for October 2026 eclipse the May 2026 MCS 45 all time nadir? Time will tell.
Both marketing departments for the Epstein class (Dems and Republicans) are strongly anti-free market, to wit, anti-freedom.
By what right does Grassley think he can put a gun to the head of a company that produces diesel and tell it who it can sell to? That is the same bullying mercantilism that 1776 was supposed to overturn.
Grassley has it ass-backwards. He should be appealing to magat farmers’ inherent racism instead of the price of diesel. What a tard he is.
Your downvoter doesn’t understand reality, is a racist, or both.
My comment style attracts enemies as well. Usually projectionists.
Dogwhistles, how do they work?
Don’t forget too – Grassley just turned 93! Think he is still shaken up by the death of the beloved family vacuum of 50 years, Beth, in August. No word if Beth received a proper burial or was just sent to a landfill in S.E. Asia
Grassley just showing what hypocrits the GOP/MAGA party are. Capitalism for thee but not for me!
An export band will only make sense if you include price fixing.
During the Great depression they tried both tariffs and price fixing. Both of these exacerbated the depression. I didn’t study business at Wharton but I know this much
“Only commies price fix”
-Every GOPer ever
Thats SOCIALISM
Can you (@mish) write a post about what you expect the “blue wave” to usher in?
I can anticipate that for you: more of the same, but with a different narrative.
No possible major economic change until 2029. but impeachments, war powers resolution passed but vetoed, and I expect Trump to go nuts with deportations and other stupidity costing Republicans the 2028 election if someone like Osoff wins the nomination.
Between Ossoff, Talarico, and Buttigieg, the Democrats seem to be quickly distilling a new template.
Where does Osoff stand on Trump’s plan to “sell” (give) forty thousand 2,000 bombs to Israel?
Good question. I have no idea.
This is what I can tell you: I have seem him in over a dozen video clips. He is young, good looking, and sounds presidential. He says he is not running for President.
Let me translate that for you: He is running for president. And if he gets the nomination, I believe he will win.
If Georgia is the blowout I expect, then expect him to be mentioned for president.
In that case the mid terms mean absolutely nothing since you (correctly in my opinion) are saying nothing is going to change.
However people will feel differently about Democrats in 2028 if nothing gets done with Democrats in control of both houses.
The incumbent president gets the blame or the praise
not always old sport. long history of that not being true.
I think that the Democrats have some possibilities on their bench; Beshear, Shapiro, Newsom, maybe even AOC (shudder).
I don’t agree with most of the Democratic list of policy positions, but I don’t think people should assume that VP Vance or Sec’y Rubio are going to get anything handed to them.
Plus, Trump will be a huge anchor/headwind all the way in 2028, making the election all about himself, causing endless distractions, and forcing the Republican nominee to walk a tightrope of distancing himself from Trump while trying to keep the MAGA base fired up.
AOC – president someday, I think.
But needs to be a senator or governor, first.
What are democrats going to do when they have their “wave?”
What are they going to accomplish?
Let me guess…”holding Trump accountable?” Investigations of Trump? Impeachment? Shutting down audits of government spending? Shutting down hearings on fraud in government? Campaigning for 2028 on “get Trump?”
Sounds great. I’m sure the Democrat party will do wonders for my family and standard of living.
Well, at least the kids can start getting ready to be “transed” again. And, maybe more of my income will get confiscated as my “fair share” for their pet causes.
Thank goodness for the veto pen.
Your obsession with trans implies more than just fear. Is there something you’re not telling yourself?
I don’t know how old you are but there’s a pretty long established trend that the Republicans take office and fuck everything up followed by the Democrats taking office and trying to fix everything the Republicans fucked up. They do what they can but they also fuck up their own stuff.
What it really comes down to is what kind of fuck up are you willing to tolerate? Is a 0.01% of the USA population having a lifestyle that scares you but doesn’t affect you more important than a global fuel & food crisis that effects more than 0.01% of the global population.
Save your amateur psychology for the Democrats.
What I am telling myself is watching blue state governments pass laws that prevent schools from telling parents when their child gets infected with Trans ideology from another blue-haired nose-ring, and enables their confusion into something very dangerous and harmful, like hormones and surgeries. All because Democrats want to show how “elevated” they are in understanding. Trans issues are indicative of mental illness, not some “lifestyle choice.” But you be you, and maybe you ought to work on telling your own self some truths.
I could go on for many, many pages of print of what the Democrats have “fucked up” and it isn’t pretty. Everything from welfare to Vietnam to the ACA healthcare to government employee unions to teacher unions to many of our modern-day maladies. But you have your opinion and I’m sure you believe all of those things are Republican’s fault. I really don’t care what you believe, to be honest, because Democrats never listen to anyone else, anyway.
There is no “global fuel and food crisis.” Prices are up. Big fucking deal. Go get a better job.
So your ox isn’t being gored sufficiently at the moment, for any adjustment in your canonical tough guy pose. No hurry.
My ox is always being gored, because I am high income/high net worth. I paid more in taxes last year than the top 1% makes in income. In this country being successful is basically a bullseye target for envy and confiscation. It didn’t used to be that way, but here we are. The socialists/communists want their way, and none of them understand how wealth is created. Even fellow republicans are envious, and I’m fighting their populism as well.
I also understand that there is a long game here (regarding Iran), and that Iran must be defeated. I’m not a big fan of how it has been carried out, but I recognize what is happening. To bitch about gas prices going up a buck or two is just stupid and shortsighted. If it was up $10, I think we have an economic problem. But it’s not.
Also, when my ox is being gored, I look for the opportunity. I work to stop it. I don’t whine, and I certainly don’t care what others think when I voice my opinion.
and you did it all by yourself you did not use any public help or pay people less than a livable wage you did it it without roads or schools or the cards being stacked in your favor. you rock how much is enough? you have a disease called greed. we are offended by all of the other deadly sins but greed rocks open your mind does more really make you happy. I made enough and have enjoyed the last 20 years but you be you do you realize that trans people are so rare and why in the world is it a concern of yours. but you have to be captain of the world. good for you trans is a dog whistle for people living in fear. greed is also fear driven it must be terrible to be so afraid
You never read Adam Smith, did you?
Exactly what a Business Woman would say… curious…
Duh. Stupid Comment of the Day Award.
I’m tempted to dye my hair rainbow to trigger folks like you even harder
As always, you missed the distinction. I said children are my concern.
I could absolutely not give one flying shit about what adults do with their bodies or their sex lives or whatever other stupid things they waste their time on. I literally don’t care, but I do have a few rules:
1) I will not be commanded to call you whatever you think you should be called. Whether that is stupidity like xer or xim or they/them. I won’t be rude to you, but if you are rude to me, you are going to get it and get it hard.
2) You may “lifestyle” any way you want, but you are not to groom children or even make any suggestions to them about your sexuality. I don’t care if you are “proud” or whatever. I don’t go around telling your kids how I like to fuck women, and I don’t want you telling mine whatever perversions you are into. If the kids aren’t around, I don’t give a shit what you say. Free country and have at it. It doesn’t mean I have to like you or accept you.
3) Don’t ask the government to pay for your surgeries or hormones, all of which are completely medically unnecessary. If you want to pay for it yourself, and also pay for the medical maladies that result, then go right ahead.
4) You may not play women’s sports or any contact or physical sports with my daughter. I don’t care if you sliced off your privates and/or take a drug regimen to pretend you are a girl. You will NOT be in her locker room, and you will not be playing in her game. Play against me and the other guys, and let’s see how you do, then.
Other than, live free and die free, comrade.
Oh I’m sure children are your concern. Funny how it was your president on that island raping them without a trans person in sight. Maybe we should send all our kids to an island so they’re safe from that dastardly 1%?
Does anyone else feel like there’s an ulterior motive to this child protecting or is it just me?
Do you people just make shit up and shoot your mouths off, or what?!
Trump was never on Epstein’s island and you are either just open-mouthed stupid or fundamentally dishonest.
Oh so now the publicly readable files are lying and they weren’t best friends. His name can’t possibly come up over fifty thousand times, no sir! And those pictures of them together, of which there are many, are just fakes from the deep state too. Same goes for the witnesses, paid actors obviously.
Yep, just concerned for those kiddos! That’s why the files should be kept locked up even though Trump campaigned on releasing them.
So tell us again: where are those files exactly? Why are all the pages blacked out? Why did they remove mentions of Trump’s name found after the release? I’m sure you’ve got a great explanation since you care about the kids so much.
You may be financially successful, but you don’t come across as very evolved, or kindly towards your fellow beings – are you a bible-basher by any chance?
I am not kind to fellow beings who are vindictive, jealous, envious and spiteful.
I’m also not religious.
If you have something constructive to say, then I’m all for civilized debate. But the screeching and excessive paranoia on display here deserves a stern rebuke.
I remember when this blog was far more conservative/libertarian. The commenters were generally of an investment mindset. Now we have a weird collection of socialists and communists residing in other countries who seem to be very angry at “Amerika” and are content in shouting at the moon.
You’re all for a civilized debate until anyone asks you why the GOP is currently, to this day, defending pedophiles. Then you’d rather talk about Biden (is he dead yet?) or trans people. Are trans people currently running the nation? Is Joe Biden still in office? Maybe you can answer those questions since you’re so keen on avoiding anything of more substance.
LOL
get some help please
Even if Team D were as bad as you say, Trump spent the past two years acting as Israel’s buttboi, not doing anything for America or Americans.
It would be nearly impossible for Democrats to be as bad for this nation as Trump.
It’s worth a healthy debate. Has Trump pissed me off with his market manipulations and shenanigans? Absolutely. I held my nose when I voted for the guy. I’ve been a DeSantis guy from day 1.
But I look at Kamala Harris and Biden and then the socialist Democrats vying for Congress, and I’m not so sure that they wouldn’t be worse.
They would definitely be worse for me.
At least with Trump I have a business-friendly president (most of the time, not always) and I like his border policies. I like his tax policy. I like law enforcement. I have watched as my large blue city has gotten worse and worse in terms of taxes, crime, living conditions, business conditions, etc. All because of local policies. If Trump wasn’t deporting many criminals, I have a feeling that crime would actually be much worse.
Do I like Trump as a person? Not really, to be honest. Too much bullshit all the time. I want a quiet, effective government, which is why I like DeSantis.
But I don’t think the alternative would be as good as people think.
A few people here tout the alternative as some great thing. But most of us, I believe, instead just want useful and valuable things to stop breaking so deeply and quickly. We want any kind of breather from this particular manifest sh!t show.
I think that’s a perfectly reasonable outlook, and fully support it.
I suppose Trump is simply accelerating the decline.
The 12 step people say you gotta hit “rock bottom” before you can get better, and in that sense, Trump might as well be a coal miner.
LOL!
Maybe the protagonist of “Journey to the Center of the Earth”!
It’s good of you to post so we can be reminded of the burdens of stupid people.
Stupid people ARE the burden.
I wanted you to be able to read it both ways 😉
Why did you let your kids “get transed?” You’re a poor parent if you just let them flit in the breeze with any wind.
Reading comprehension is a real struggle here.
Did I say that anywhere? Did you directly read something that allowed you to translate it into “how can I turn this into making him a bad parent?”
Are you guys all literally devoid of basic logic and reasoning skills? Are you incapable of having an adult debate about important issues without completely and purposefully regurgitating false rebuttals?
You’re the one who veered from the major topic, the economy vis a vis energy prices, to this marginal culture war sideshow.
False rebuttals? Explain why the GOP is defending pedophiles then. It seems like it ought to be easy enough since you’re so filthy rich and smart. I’m hearing a whole lot of “look over there” with no comment on the billionaire child rapists in the room. Guess that’s not as important as defending women’s sports you don’t watch.
Not much they can do with that moron still the president and vetoing every sane idea that comes along. But they will still likely accomplish more than the current GOP run congress which has done absolutely nothing constructive. Not a high bar to reach. The first thing they will probably do is attempt to rein in DOW spending on the Iran war of choice and starve the president into stopping the insanity and confirming that the proper name is DOD.
It’s so close to elections I’m not sure there is anything that could benefit the republican candidates. Can’t even legally rig the elections.
Fuel costs will hit a ‘hockey stick’ on prices before too long. As oil continues to get constrained, the SPR continues to fall. There’s is a point at which there is effectively no extra fuel, just what’s left in the pipes & pumps.
Then we get the hockey stick followed immediately by out right shortages for harvesting and shipping. When shipping gets hit, the economy will self destruct under the prices and corruption.
Bessent will blame Biden.
Trump will blame everyone but Trump – Ukraine, Iran, Canada, Greenland, and low flush toilets.
Are you actually watching oil prices, or are you a couple weeks behind?
It’s still above the 20 day SMA.
True, but it’s also below the 14 and 10-day, and moving sharply lower. Tom made the point that everything is going to destruct “soon” due to oil shortages, and the most recent two weeks pricing action does not indicate any of that
Regardless of technicals, any bona fide trader will tell you that there is nothing that indicates a crisis is coming. As of this moment there is enough oil, and more is rapidly coming online.
Tom’s thesis is that fuel is going to “hockey stick” because of oil pricing. Mine is that he is two weeks behind, which is exactly what the 14 day average is telling us versus current price action.
You said it was moving sharply lower weeks ago too. It’s higher now. What happened then?
So Team R senators are seeking a diesel export ban because prices are too low?
Are you trying to argue that Team R is staffed by idiots?
This post is about high diesel costs. Look at the graph in the article.
Only a politician could be so dumb as to argue that an export ban would affect prices.
Only a voter could be so dumb as to believe them.
Apparently, there are millions of them.
Their oil company owners won’t allow anything of the sort.
Why should they?
Well, it really shouldn’t be their decision, now should it, Business Woman.
Are you a child?
Look, I know you aren’t really a woman ok? But if you want to get a boob job and strut around in high heels, that’s your business.
Bebe is staying the course.