I think the key here as far as oil goes is the fact small oil drillers are being affected. This administration only cares about the large corporations. They probably want them bankrupt so Exxon or some other large companies can swoop up these oil fields at fire sale prices.
On planning. You wouldn't know it from the day to day news, but the planet is still overheating, seas are rising, storms are getting bigger, and possibly more frequent, and we had an administration that is busy sabotaging the progress we had just started to make. Planning is tedious, but it is necessary. We have to plan for a transition away from oil, gas and coal energy. Its not going to happen via the magic of the market.
Democrats should be out there every day SCREAMING about how we are not safe with these incompetent bozos in charge. Run ads saying that Russia could invade us tomorrow and Donald Trump would tell the military to stand down. "Just asking questions" right? Run the (very founded) fear that we are not safe as a nation with these people in charge. Gin up fear, gin up anger and agitate people into activation. Put the pressure on now and don't relent. Run the R playbook and get out there every day SCREAMING about dangerously incompetent these people are.
Saw on a CNN chyron that DOGE is going to investigate the Signal group chat leak. He'll get a top-secret security clearance and can then be able to be briefed on the China war plans!
Day after day we are reminded that our government is being run by a bunch of morons. Unqualified, cruel, ignorant and constantly lying about everything.
Imagine if, instead of the ethical, patriotic "JG" Jeffrey Goldberg, Waltz, Hegseth et al. had accidentally included "GG" Glenn Greenwald in their Signal chat. With these clowns we can count on an ongoing string of disasters, with an even greater disaster is always just one keystroke away.
I'm watching a press conference with the president's chief press secretary. Two things occur to me: 1) even though the White House seems to have tried to weed out anyone who would ask uncomfortable questions there have been plenty of reporters there asking uncomfortable questions about Signal, and 2) the press secretary must be severed. She repeats the same spin over and over with a straight face though towards the end she showed some impatience.
On COVIDiocy: It has always annoyed me that COVID skeptics don't acknowledge their own errors - their predictions of a death toll comparable to seasonal flu; their claims that COVID was no worse than the flu; their hostility to mitigation measures - while they crow about any hindsight information that shows mistaken predictions or unnecessary measures by "alarmists."
I recall one critic-pundit saying "Why are people making such a big fuss about an illness in one nursing home in a far corner of America?"
There are people who basically make a living by declaring "The experts are wrong!" - but their own livelihood does not require them to be right, or even to admit that they were wrong.
What's worse is the ascription of malign intent or callousness to people who were trying to save lives and health in a situation full of unknowns but with some frightening indicators. "They're just trying to control us with all these restrictions! They don't care about children!" Never mind that the restrictions were temporary., or that some other countries had similar or tighter restrictions.
It's the same conspiratorial thinking that could look at an amply documented event like the 1/6/21 attack on the Capitol, publicly incited by Trump & his allies and videoed by many of the participants, and believe that the perps were all framed by the "deep state" and are actually the victims. It's the mindset that views the whole "administrative state" as being full of communists who hate America and are always persecuting conservatives, and therefore needs to be smashed to pieces.
During Biden's Presidency the US was drilling more oil than it ever had before!
I think the key here as far as oil goes is the fact small oil drillers are being affected. This administration only cares about the large corporations. They probably want them bankrupt so Exxon or some other large companies can swoop up these oil fields at fire sale prices.
Joaquín Adujar helped defeat the Milwaukee Brewers in the 1982 World Series, so I am not a fan.
Goldberg said on The Bulwark podcast yesterday he had met Waltz a couple of times but really didn't know him well.
Headline tomorrow: "DOGE Fires DOGE Head Elon Musk, Scrambles to Rehire Him.
On planning. You wouldn't know it from the day to day news, but the planet is still overheating, seas are rising, storms are getting bigger, and possibly more frequent, and we had an administration that is busy sabotaging the progress we had just started to make. Planning is tedious, but it is necessary. We have to plan for a transition away from oil, gas and coal energy. Its not going to happen via the magic of the market.
https://thirdact.org/act/handsoff/
April 5th protests
Can we just change the acronym from DOGE to the more appropriate DOGI? Dept of Government Inefficiency.
Democrats should be out there every day SCREAMING about how we are not safe with these incompetent bozos in charge. Run ads saying that Russia could invade us tomorrow and Donald Trump would tell the military to stand down. "Just asking questions" right? Run the (very founded) fear that we are not safe as a nation with these people in charge. Gin up fear, gin up anger and agitate people into activation. Put the pressure on now and don't relent. Run the R playbook and get out there every day SCREAMING about dangerously incompetent these people are.
Screaming every day? Not a great strategy. Scream briefly, after each screw up. Then quiet down and wait for the next one.
Saw on a CNN chyron that DOGE is going to investigate the Signal group chat leak. He'll get a top-secret security clearance and can then be able to be briefed on the China war plans!
Days after the Signal leak, the Pentagon warned the app was the target of hackers
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/25/nx-s1-5339801/pentagon-email-signal-vulnerability
Day after day we are reminded that our government is being run by a bunch of morons. Unqualified, cruel, ignorant and constantly lying about everything.
Imagine if, instead of the ethical, patriotic "JG" Jeffrey Goldberg, Waltz, Hegseth et al. had accidentally included "GG" Glenn Greenwald in their Signal chat. With these clowns we can count on an ongoing string of disasters, with an even greater disaster is always just one keystroke away.
Or VP, thinking it's the Vice President. 😎
I'm watching a press conference with the president's chief press secretary. Two things occur to me: 1) even though the White House seems to have tried to weed out anyone who would ask uncomfortable questions there have been plenty of reporters there asking uncomfortable questions about Signal, and 2) the press secretary must be severed. She repeats the same spin over and over with a straight face though towards the end she showed some impatience.
Actually she does it with a vacuous smile on her face. Imperious and arrogant in her ignorance.
On COVIDiocy: It has always annoyed me that COVID skeptics don't acknowledge their own errors - their predictions of a death toll comparable to seasonal flu; their claims that COVID was no worse than the flu; their hostility to mitigation measures - while they crow about any hindsight information that shows mistaken predictions or unnecessary measures by "alarmists."
I recall one critic-pundit saying "Why are people making such a big fuss about an illness in one nursing home in a far corner of America?"
There are people who basically make a living by declaring "The experts are wrong!" - but their own livelihood does not require them to be right, or even to admit that they were wrong.
What's worse is the ascription of malign intent or callousness to people who were trying to save lives and health in a situation full of unknowns but with some frightening indicators. "They're just trying to control us with all these restrictions! They don't care about children!" Never mind that the restrictions were temporary., or that some other countries had similar or tighter restrictions.
It's the same conspiratorial thinking that could look at an amply documented event like the 1/6/21 attack on the Capitol, publicly incited by Trump & his allies and videoed by many of the participants, and believe that the perps were all framed by the "deep state" and are actually the victims. It's the mindset that views the whole "administrative state" as being full of communists who hate America and are always persecuting conservatives, and therefore needs to be smashed to pieces.
Gosh, Senator Cramer, I think things are just gonna get bigger and dumber.