Well…this always brings a smile to my face when it happens…it looks like the oil price speculators and traders are getting hammered today with the price dropping by 14.20 a barrel or almost 12% when the speculators were betting on the price to hit 150 bucks a barrel by the end of the week…it looks like the loss of Russia’s oil has already been priced into the market at 110 bucks a barrel and with the price of gasoline rising so much in the past two weeks, usage is plummeting and we may even see a glut even with the Saudis siding with Putin and Russia and cutting their production to support the price…and with the Saudis refusing to even discuss the price with Biden, another “leader” of a country has made a huge miscalculation by snubbing the US as the US does everything in it’s power to increase supplies and get the price down. What are you going to say now repubs? These traitors have been all over the news the past couple of days blaming Biden for the increase in gasoline cost so will they now admit that his efforts has dropped the cost by 10% today? Of course not, with these cynical bastards pushing to cut off Russian imports just to have another issue to hammer Joe with when gas prices rise, the media needs to ask every damn one of them what their role was in cutting off Russian imports and why they are attacking Biden for it when they all voted for it. It will be interesting to see how this shakes out over the next week or so…I’m sure we’ll see some pretty wild swings in oil prices but 200 dollar oil? Nope…and I hope every one of these damn speculators loses their shirt…geez…
Category Archives: Politics
The Saudis and the UAE can go to hell…
Well…as President Biden talks to damn near the whole world to further isolate Russia and try to blunt the effect of cutting out Russia’s oil exports…we find out who our friends are in the middle east..just yesterday both the Saudis and the UAE threw in with Putin by refusing to even talk to Biden about increasing oil production without trying to blackmail the US into giving them a veto over our foreign policy in the middle east. The Saudis (whom I mean the murderer bin Salman) even have gone so far as to tie immunity to suits for the murder of Khashoggi to any talks…all the while they keep cutting oil production with the aim of getting the price per barrel to 200 dollars…so, we should say go to hell to both of them and tell them they are on their own and try to protect their countries themselves…and the Saudis have been whining about needing more weapons for their war in Yemen and expect us to give the weapons to them for free…I think we should just say go to Putin if you want more weapons since we know he has very few reserves and won’t be able to make any with the sanctions on Russia…look, both of these countries are pissed that Biden won the election and their favorite stooge trump can’t help them anymore…and I think these guys are lashing out since they see the writing on the wall that they will be out of the oil cartel business in the next 20 years and will go back to the backwaters they were before oil…and it can’t happen too soon for me…geez…
Ukraine developments…
Well…just sitting here paying some bills and reading some news when I saw that Ukraine is claiming they destroyed 45 Russian helicopters yesterday…and with all of the other equipment they claim destroyed (which does need to be taken with a grain of salt given the nature of modern warfare), it does appear that the Ukrainians are making Putin pay for this war in ways that he never expected…and news this afternoon is that Poland has transferred all of their Russian built fighters to the US and they are being flown to Germany so we can take possession of them officially…and then they will be given to Ukraine to bolster their air force and give them the chance to knock down even more Russian aircraft and kill other vehicles they are using to commit their war crimes. I’m sure the deal was structured this way so that Poland won’t be threatened by the criminal Putin, and if he wants to threaten NATO for the transfer, he really does have to know if he draws a modern armed force into this fight, he will lose and lose badly…and will have no army left to protect himself from the Russian people. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a dumber head of state other than the idiot trump…he has killed his economy and that will last generations and Europe is going to figure out how to do without his gas or oil so what does he have left? Nukes? That’s about it…I’ve never seen such a huge miscalculation in my lifetime…and it is going to rid the world of Putin once and for all…
Whose “freedom”?
Well…you know, it makes me gag to hear the repubs talk about “freedom” these days when the freedom they speak of is only for white repubs…and it is the freedom to be an asshole and the freedom to not be called out for it or they howl “cancel culture” when they do get called on it….and the latest is a Uof Va student (and MAGA asshole) who whines and complains in the NYT that she is being silenced (damn, I’d love to be silenced like that and given the Op-Ed page to cry about it) and no one will “debate” her since she has right wing views….no, no one will debate you because you regurgitate right wing talking points and you think that everything has to be a “debate” as you try to jam your right wing hooey down everyone’s throat. This woman is one of the righties who think that everyone should like her since she is so brilliant even while spewing the same old crap that would have gotten her ostracized in polite society a generation ago…and when they talk about freedom, again, they are talking about freedom for them only as they try to ban books,ban black history, ban transgender people, ban saying gay, and ban voting so people only get to do what they say…is that “freedom”? To them it is…and with all of this, we need to remember that at the same time that Putin is banning “subversive” books in his totalitarian Russia, the repubs are doing the same damn thing in states they control…do you need to know anything else? Didn’t think so…geez…
The “happiest place in the world” is a fraud….
Well…not sure if you’ve been following what has been happening in Florida with deSantis and his troglodyte followers passing the “don’t say gay” law that would prevent any teacher there from mentioning that gay people exist or even children from talking about their gay parents and their family…and would allow any asshole parent to sue teachers if they even hear if they might have slipped and mentioned that gay people exist….and one of the biggest donors to these assholes is the Disney corporation who continue to pour money into these cretins to help them get elected….and they explain it by saying that they can’t speak out against the law or stop their donations or the extreme right wing assholes may boycott Disney and cost them money….but that is all just an excuse…what they are really doing is protecting their sweetheart tax deals they’ve gotten from Florida that allows them to essentially pay no taxes at all….and that is what concerns them more than laws that codify discrimination against the LGBT community….after all, Disney is run by a MAGA apologist who donates only to right wing assholes like trump and he is just fine with gays being treated like crap….so he fakes that Disney is being blackmailed by the red hats out there when he really doesn’t want to do anything to support the gay community anyway…it’s all just a convenient way for him to wave away the cynical calculus he is making to keep the cash pouring into his own pocket…the happiest place in the world, my ass…boycott Disney until they show that they care about all humans, not just the ones that line their pockets…geez…
Bill Barr, Mark Meadows and a few other things…
Well…lots of stuff going on today in the news but I’m still trying to get my brain working to be just a little lucid and talk about it…okay, Bill Barr…the rehab process goes on for the trump protector Bill Barr and it is just sickening to hear how he justified not doing anything to hold trump accountable for his crimes and how he tried so damn hard to discredit the Mueller report and yet the major news channels bring him on and let him lie his ass off like the hour he was on tv last night…do you need any more proof that the media is run by right wing apologists who have an agenda to wreck this country and allow trumpism to flourish? Now, with Mark Meadows, the idiot boy’s chief of staff who was neck deep in trying to overthrow the results of the 2020 election and who should be charged by now…it was reported yesterday that he has committed voting fraud in NC by registering to vote at an address that he has never owned, never lived at, and that the former and current owners have no clue why he would use the address….and the excuse the repubs in NC are using to justify not prosecuting him is that “no one has filed a complaint yet”…so now I guess it’s okay to commit crimes in NC just as long as no one complains? Let’s remember that every damn instance of voter fraud revealed in the past few years is all done by repubs as they wail about it….I wonder if the old saying “thou doth protest too loudly” applies here? Oh, and one last thing about Ukraine…a defense department official has said that the most effective weapon the Ukrainians have is the Javelin anti tank missile they got from the US…remember the Javelin? The missile that the idiot trump tried to use to extort Zelensky into fabricating dirt of Joe Biden? This shows just how dangerous that extortion was and how trump was working for Putin at the same time he was trying to cheat to an election win…I wish the media would ask some of the repubs about the Javelins and why none of them voted to convict trump in the senate for withholding them…it would be fun to watch the squirm….
The limits to a moron’s thinking…
Well…there really limits to a moron’s thinking and the moron trump showed it this weekend when he was talking to some repub donors….his solution to the challenge of Russia and China is to paint some Chinese flags on our F-22s and bomb Russia…and then Russia would naturally attack China and the we could “sit back and watch” as they fought each other…cripes, where do I start with this monumental bit of stupidity? First, we are the only country in the world that flies the F-22 and it can hardly be mistaken for a Chinese aircraft even by an idiot like trump…okay, yeah, he would mistake it since he thinks that “stealth” aircraft really are invisible and can’t be seen even just sitting on the runway….look, even if the Russians are as inept as their Ukrainian invasion shows, I’m sure they could tell an F-22 when they see one….this is the depth of critical military thinking that idiot boy and his followers have…and to be sure, there are millions of his idiot followers who will think this is the greatest piece of military strategy in the history of the world….the question that comes to me is why the hell does anyone still listen to this moron with a 3rd graders grasp of the world? Okay, his followers are proud to be thought of being that dumb since it is just the “elites” who think that and they really are stealth geniuses who know more about everything than the “libs”….stupidity has never been so revered as it is in the trump cult…geez…
Why is the Kentucky teacher retirment fund investing in Russia?
Well…as more and more information comes out about who has been supporting Russia and it’s banks, there have been a few surprises revealed in the past couple of days. One of them was the Kentucky teacher’s retirement fund that was the second largest investor in Sberbank, one of the banks that has just been sanctioned for supporting Putin and his invasion of Ukraine…initial reports were that the fund lost over 12 million dollars as the shares in the bank fell to junk status…and that would be bad enough to put teacher’s retirements at risk with investments in a bank that has been involved in many shady investments over the years…but just today, representatives from the teacher’s fund said “oh, no….we sold all of the investments the day before Russia invaded”…and that either has to be the smartest fund manager in the world or he was tipped off by the bank or any one of Moscow Mitch McConnell’s Russian contacts…you know, the Russian oligarchs that he pals around with and who he got sanctions removed from for their part in getting the idiot trump elected in 2016…and who said they were going to invest hundreds of millions in an aluminum plant in Kentucky that went pfffft once the sanctions were lifted….this whole thing screams of insider trading on the part of the fund manager that the feds should be looking into right now…and into who recommended investing American money in a corrupt Russian bank in the first place…who got paid off to do it would be my first question…of many, many others…geez…
I still don’t get it….
Well…with the latest great jobs report that was released today where it was reported that almost 700K jobs were added in Feb and the unemployment rate dropped to 3.8%, I still don’t understand the polls that show that almost 70% of the country thinks Biden is doing a bad job on employment. I mean, what the hell else does he have to do? Go door to door asking people if they need a job? I still don’t get how there is such a big disconnect between reality and perception…is it a feeling or are there reports saying he is doing a crappy job? I know that it is a daily feature of fox news that Biden is a failure at everything, but that is only watched by about 30% of the country so what is causing this disconnect when more people are working than ever before and pay is up almost across the board? I still think it is the bias in the media that is doing most of it…can you imagine if the idiot trump was still in office? The NYT and Washington Post would have 4 inch screaming headlines every damn day how much of a genius the moron was…but with Biden? Nothing, not a damn thing that connects his efforts to the Biden jobs boom…and I am getting tired of it…this is a country in the midst of a shared delusion that nothing good is happening…and I don’t know how to fix that…geez…
Idiot boy is going to be indicted…
Well…with the latest court filings by the Jan 6th committee, the only conclusion that can be drawn is idiot boy an his minions are going to be indicted sometime in the future….in a 61 page filing, the committees lawyers have told the court they have enough evidence to show that trump and his cronies tried to interfere with government functions and tried to overthrow the election…and that is nothing less than what one of the oathkeepers did who just pleaded guilty to seditious insurrection…and that is just one of the charges that trump is on the hook for…yeah, I know…I’ve been saying that idiot boy is going to be indicted for a long time now but if it doesn’t happen after this, Merrick Garland has to be fired and needs to take his ‘institutionalist” views back to the 19th century where they belong…things have changed and these serious threats to our country need to be dealt with now…not some time in the future…and there was enough evidence in the Mueller report to charge the idiot with but it just sits there and nothing is done…what the hell is more important than protecting our democracy? I know I’ve said that before but damn, now’s the time to get off the damn fence before it’s too late…geez…