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WSHazel's JournalStrategic Petroleum Reserve at lowest level in 40 years
Why start a war in the Middle East if the SPR is at a 40 year low? Look into activity in the oil futures markets leading up to the war. I bet the MAGA leadership was loading up. It’s not gambling if you know the outcome in advance.
https://apnews.com/article/trump-iran-oil-strategic-petroleum-reserve-f94657cbef74c0c682f5cc6472bfb3cb
The Iranian regime is stupider than I thought
Maybe it is because there are no women in power in Iran, but I can't believe there is not a Delcy Rodriguez-type somewhere in the regime that realizes how easy it is to manipulate Trump. Iran should do what Rodriguez did, cut a deal to give Trump, personally, a piece of the Iranian oil revenue. Do that, and Trump would let the Iranians do whatever they want.
Trump is a mob boss. Pay him, and he will go away. Threatening to fight a long war is just stupid on their part.
The next time any Trump stooge says "Stock Market"
Ask them to compare it to foreign markets in dollar terms. The rest of the world’s stock markets are crushing the US market since the start of 2025.
Where are the undocumented immigrants?
Mike Lawler (R-NY) is on Katie Tur right now spewing nonsense. He repeated the lie that 10 million undocumented immigrants came over the border under Biden. Republicans have represented that anywhere from 30 to 50 million undocumented immigrants living in the United States.
Where are they? If there were this many undocumented immigrants in the U.S. they would be everywhere and it would be easy to find them. ICE is resorting to harassing citizens and non-white people because they can’t find immigrants to deport. At what point do we just acknowledge that the assertion that there were tens of millions of immigrants in the United States were just false?
Ukraine agrees to peace proposal, with only "minor details" to settle, official says, but no word from Russia
Source: CBS News
A U.S. official told CBS News on Tuesday that Ukraine's government had "agreed to a peace deal" brokered by the Trump administration to stop Russia's nearly four-year assault. The American official and Ukraine's national security adviser Rustem Umerov said a common understanding on a proposal had been reached, with details still to be worked out.
Umerov voiced optimism that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy could travel to the U.S. before the end of November to finalize an agreement. CBS News was first to report on Sunday that U.S. and Ukrainian officials had previously discussed a potential visit to the U.S. this week by Zelenskyy.
Read more: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ukraine-russia-war-peace-deal-trump-driscoll-abu-dhabi-talks-latest/
There is a better than 50% chance that this never happens, but it is a smart move by Zelenskyy. Russia's military is exhausted, and Trump desperately needs a "win" somewhere, anywhere, so Zelenskyy has leverage. The Russian occupied parts of Ukraine are a wasteland, and anyone who is able will leave. Most importantly, Zelenskyy gets the equivalent of NATO membership while pretending not to be in NATO. The killing will stop, and with peace, Ukraine will get stronger, and Russia will continue to get weaker. Ukraine can go back for the lost territories when Putin dies.
If Russia embarrasses Trump and walks away, then Zelenskyy and the Europeans tried, and Trump will keep up the pressure on Putin.
Additional Epstein files issue
The sex trafficking comes first, but money laundering needs to be on the list of things investigated. Trump is really worried about these files, but so far there have been no witnesses that put him that close to anything serious with sex trafficking.
What if the trafficking is not what Trump is worried about? What if there is evidence of some other crime in those emails or in the file somewhere?
Is there a link to a simple breakdown of how Republicans can get around filibuster?
The nuclear option is one, but can’t they use budget reconciliation too? Either way, they don’t need Democratic votes.
A link would be great.
Trump wanted the shutdown
They were lying the whole time when they blamed it on Democrats. Now the Administration gets to unilaterally decide what is "essential" and "non essential". We may be in shutdown for a while.
https://apnews.com/article/trump-project-2025-russ-vought-shutdown-2d1ea5e6e32c583ddf6b8a8164e523c3
Good Seth Abramson thread
Interesting perspective on a group that is hard to understand.
The picture is starting to become clear. Conventional MAGAs like Governor Cox and Kash Patel can deliberately misread the evidence all they like, but the truth always comes out eventually. Tyler Robinson is a Groyper; it is that theory of the case that explains everything about how we got here.
— Seth Abramson (@sethabramson.bsky.social) 2025-09-14T00:20:54.475Z
Nationalization of U.S. economy continues with Intel
Trump’s government is taking over our economy, first with Nvidia and AMD, now with Intel. A Republican can never utter the words “free market” again.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/intel-stock-surges-on-report-trump-administration-mulls-taking-stake-in-company-204003673.html
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