After days of hiding from the press, tucked away from the American people deep inside the White House, while a giant UFC cage is being set up on the South Lawn, the President of the United States finally found a moment to emerge from seclusion when he took a phone call from a reporter earlier today. And when the reporter, CNBC's Eamon Javers, spoke to him, Trump did not hold back. His lack of impulse control got the better of him. Asked about negotiations collapsing over the Iran war, Trump shrugged off the question entirely, saying, “I really don’t care. I couldn’t care less,” because the discussions had “started to get very boring.” This was the President of the United States discussing a deadly war that he started. A conflict that has destabilized an entire region, rattled global economic markets, endangered American troops, and left allies and adversaries alike scrambling to understand what comes next. And his response was that he didn’t care anymore because it was boring.
At this point djt is just a puppet leader, I'm not sure who's really in charge, maybe Stephen Miller, Russ Vought, or Susan Wiles? But they want us to be watching the chaos around djt while they continue to implement their agenda/rob us blind. But they are bound to fail, the handwriting is on the wall when Peter Theil runs off to Argentina.
ADHD again. Bilionaires who put this convict asshole in the white house (musk, thiel and company) must be sanctioned. And btw lock this demented old corrupt hateful fascist up. Before he sinks half the world with him. Amen
Well, it seems that the Donald is going down exactly the same route as Hitler. Towards the end of the war Adolf blamed the German people for losing the war. Also after the disastrous Russian campaign he suggested that the generals should take their own lives rather than be captured by the Soviets. Why Hitler decided to invade a huge country without adequate equipment like cold weather clothing only he knew. And Trump is exactly the same. Did he listen to anyone in the WH about declaring war on Iraq without Congress approval? Of course he didn't.
The comparison to Hitler viz a viz his command decisions is apt. The battle of Stalingrad precipitated the end. Like Trump, he could not release the fruit in the gourd (the monkey fable).
Was doing errands yesterday and was at the dentist office in the afternoon while the CNBC news was on in the waiting room. There were a number of us listening and as it was being reported on the Iranian war and his response was, “I really don’t care. I couldn’t care less,” because the discussions had “started to get very boring.” A young man approximately in his thirties said out-loud “Of course he doesn’t care, we are all just collateral damage.” We all just looked at each other for only a second, sighed and shook our heads in agreement. When an elderly man’s name was called for his time in the chair for the dentist, he rose and went over to this young man and said, “I’m sorry” and touched him on his shoulder. We all knew what he had decided in November 2024. Gives hope that maybe some are really getting it, of their decision to follow a bankrupted, demented conman..
Where are the adults in the room? So many people I work with still support him and they will read his truth social posts and think the world is great and wonderful, but they won’t take the time to fact check. And here we are paying over $4 a gallon for gas. So. Cool cool cool. WHERE ARE THE EFFING ADULTS?!?
I wholeheartedly agree that there aren't enough words to dissuade his followers from cheering him on. But they will be swayed. Mostly by them realising they can't fill their gas tanks or fridges.
The purpos of all the reporting is to bear witness. On the record.
I'm often surprised at the meticulous documentation of past 'fascist regimes'.
By his own people, there are copious notes being taken, positive proof of the criminal activities afoot, good enough for a court of law.
Pressure….keep it on him…exposure…keep highlighting his mistakes..pushback….the more of those 3 he gets the weaker he gets. He can’t deal with any of them so he has always walked away.
This time it’s different….he’s trapped ..he has no one to blame..he’s too power crazed to totally hand over the reins to someone else but he doesn’t want to deal with it himself…he hates losing..he refuses to admit mistakes or trying to right a wrong…he’s created a huge problem and he’s lost control..he’s in over his head.
We can see his weakness…like a predatory animal can smell weakness in their prey and attack at just the right moment ..we must do the same…pounce.
Attack him in the press…candidates running for office attack him on the trail..members of Congress and Senate attack him on the floor….CHALLENGE him…CALL HIM OUT.
He’s failing …physically..mentally…emotionally…politically…he knows he can’t get out of this ..he’s incapable because he’s incompetent and he’s all alone in it…nobody is going to come to his rescue..the facade is gone…a good number are going to jump ship to try and save themselves and the rest…if we do our jobs ….will be gone in November.
You must, you must PLEASE watch Senator Jon Ossoff’s magnificent speech in Atlanta! It’s what we’ve been waiting for a leader to bring. He’s dynamic, , he’s strong, he’s sexy, and he’ll give you a mighty dose of hope and inspiration to lead us into the midterms.
Tramp needs to be removed from office NOW, before he totally destroys our country. No one with a brain bigger than a pea can possibly argue successfully that he is competent to be President of this country. This has gone way beyond embarrassing, dangerous and mortifying. Impeach him NOW.
The most dangerous thing about Trump is that he really does not understand the difference between truth and sales pitch. He’s been successfully selling people crap for so long that I don’t think he even understands what he’s doing anymore. So when he says “thanks Bibi for turning the troops around,”“ it’s a sales pitch. Clearly has no relationship with reality. Does Trump understand that anymore? I think the most dangerous part is that he doesn’t.
Beyond the imagery of oil gushers with all their attendant environmental contamination, let us consider how actual business is conducted. There are input and outputs. Inputs are the materials, from the raw to the finished, that go into any final product (output). Companies manage inputs with suppliers and contractual cost accounting (the promised provided parts, cost, transportation to a facility, etc.). This management assures that a business will have enough parts at a reasonable cost to make something and provide it in a timely manner on a continuing basis to make a profit, paying workers, maintaining factories, and “the business”. Often the input supply chain is segregated into short-, medium-, and longer-term timeframes depending on the raw material and manufacturing considerations.
The oil and gas business is no different. Refiners contract quantities of oil (and gas) with upstream providers to provide raw materials for creating a variety of hydrocarbon products. The inputs and outputs are finely tuned to accommodate demand, optimize manufacturing capabilities, and account for supply chain variabilities. A “planner” in a refinery finds crude oil purchase opportunities spanning the short, medium, and longer term. The medium- and longer-term contracts represent economic stability for a facility assuring that profitability will be optimized medium and long term. Short term, “spot market pricing”, is sometimes used for opportunities, but is not the preferred accounting of most stable business.
A gusher represents a market upset. A short-term event. Not something that most businesses use to plan the forward momentum of business growth. It is the same for any business. Flood the market with a previously restricted resource or input, and it does not create any instant lasting change in the output price. Supply chain stability creates price stability. No one runs a business on gushers. It is no way to run a domestic or world economy.
I agree. May I also offer material input, production, distribution, and consumption are a tightly coupled system. Perturbations have a “butterfly effect” extending well beyond the initial. The second, of course, the flow of oil is more akin to just-in-time versus gross surplus. Even if flow returned today, the supply delay and replenishment will reflect the disruption as you so well noted.
Iran got the Trump treatment: lies, misrepresentations, shifting claims, daily turnarounds, absence of diplomacy or diplomats (is Trump doing this alone?). Unsurprisingly, they walked away. Can we blame them?
Yep. And another day of losing for Americans (at least for those of us who are still sane).
And the hits keep on coming. Just today, Trump announced that he’s appointing Bill Pulte to replace Tulsi Gabbard as acting DNI director. Of course, Pulte has no relevant experience for this job. None. And, as ‘acting’ director, he doesn’t need congressional approval.
How nice! Another incompetent ass-kissing Trump appointee in his cabinet.
This jackass president will be the death of America.
It is obvious to all, DJT is a trap of his own making. Of course, with him the opposite of what he says is always true. “I don’t care” is his own admission the futility and collapse of his “excursion.” Now he hopes Netanyahu will bail him and he fabulates peace deals. His demand NATO bail him out is a resounding NO. He speaks to “blowing them to Kingdom come” failing to realize he never mobilized our country to achieve that end. In practical terms, the war’s illegitimacy delimits our capacity to seize the uranium or force the Straits open.
The clock is ticking down. At present, the price of gas is high but people still drive about. When price becomes opportunity costs such as the cancelled vacation, then using the bus in lieu of driving to work; when life’s necessities are triaged; when not if.
Trump is learning it is one thing to wheel, deal, and defraud in Manhattan. It is quite another with sovereign nations when their blood & treasure are the coin of the realm.
The solution is beyond Trump. It now rests with Congress to declare an end.
At this point djt is just a puppet leader, I'm not sure who's really in charge, maybe Stephen Miller, Russ Vought, or Susan Wiles? But they want us to be watching the chaos around djt while they continue to implement their agenda/rob us blind. But they are bound to fail, the handwriting is on the wall when Peter Theil runs off to Argentina.
Then you have his puppet masters , Putin and Netanyahu controlling him from 30,000 ft.
You are doing the people of our country an excellent service. You are keeping the factual truth exposed. Many Thanks!
ADHD again. Bilionaires who put this convict asshole in the white house (musk, thiel and company) must be sanctioned. And btw lock this demented old corrupt hateful fascist up. Before he sinks half the world with him. Amen
I Thiel’s move to Argentina to escape paying taxes a permanent thing?
Well, it seems that the Donald is going down exactly the same route as Hitler. Towards the end of the war Adolf blamed the German people for losing the war. Also after the disastrous Russian campaign he suggested that the generals should take their own lives rather than be captured by the Soviets. Why Hitler decided to invade a huge country without adequate equipment like cold weather clothing only he knew. And Trump is exactly the same. Did he listen to anyone in the WH about declaring war on Iraq without Congress approval? Of course he didn't.
I suspect an industrial level of hubris, undeserved for sure.
Dunning and Kruger had something to say on the matter.
The comparison to Hitler viz a viz his command decisions is apt. The battle of Stalingrad precipitated the end. Like Trump, he could not release the fruit in the gourd (the monkey fable).
Was doing errands yesterday and was at the dentist office in the afternoon while the CNBC news was on in the waiting room. There were a number of us listening and as it was being reported on the Iranian war and his response was, “I really don’t care. I couldn’t care less,” because the discussions had “started to get very boring.” A young man approximately in his thirties said out-loud “Of course he doesn’t care, we are all just collateral damage.” We all just looked at each other for only a second, sighed and shook our heads in agreement. When an elderly man’s name was called for his time in the chair for the dentist, he rose and went over to this young man and said, “I’m sorry” and touched him on his shoulder. We all knew what he had decided in November 2024. Gives hope that maybe some are really getting it, of their decision to follow a bankrupted, demented conman..
Where are the adults in the room? So many people I work with still support him and they will read his truth social posts and think the world is great and wonderful, but they won’t take the time to fact check. And here we are paying over $4 a gallon for gas. So. Cool cool cool. WHERE ARE THE EFFING ADULTS?!?
He and all the "adults" are getting rich beyond their wildest dreams off our paralysis.
He and all the "adults" are getting rich beyond their wildest dreams off our paralysis.
He and all the "adults" are getting rich beyond their wildest dreams off our paralysis.
I wholeheartedly agree that there aren't enough words to dissuade his followers from cheering him on. But they will be swayed. Mostly by them realising they can't fill their gas tanks or fridges.
The purpos of all the reporting is to bear witness. On the record.
I'm often surprised at the meticulous documentation of past 'fascist regimes'.
By his own people, there are copious notes being taken, positive proof of the criminal activities afoot, good enough for a court of law.
Pressure….keep it on him…exposure…keep highlighting his mistakes..pushback….the more of those 3 he gets the weaker he gets. He can’t deal with any of them so he has always walked away.
This time it’s different….he’s trapped ..he has no one to blame..he’s too power crazed to totally hand over the reins to someone else but he doesn’t want to deal with it himself…he hates losing..he refuses to admit mistakes or trying to right a wrong…he’s created a huge problem and he’s lost control..he’s in over his head.
We can see his weakness…like a predatory animal can smell weakness in their prey and attack at just the right moment ..we must do the same…pounce.
Attack him in the press…candidates running for office attack him on the trail..members of Congress and Senate attack him on the floor….CHALLENGE him…CALL HIM OUT.
He’s failing …physically..mentally…emotionally…politically…he knows he can’t get out of this ..he’s incapable because he’s incompetent and he’s all alone in it…nobody is going to come to his rescue..the facade is gone…a good number are going to jump ship to try and save themselves and the rest…if we do our jobs ….will be gone in November.
Push him over the edge.
You must, you must PLEASE watch Senator Jon Ossoff’s magnificent speech in Atlanta! It’s what we’ve been waiting for a leader to bring. He’s dynamic, , he’s strong, he’s sexy, and he’ll give you a mighty dose of hope and inspiration to lead us into the midterms.
Thank you for your words that are so well written!
Tramp needs to be removed from office NOW, before he totally destroys our country. No one with a brain bigger than a pea can possibly argue successfully that he is competent to be President of this country. This has gone way beyond embarrassing, dangerous and mortifying. Impeach him NOW.
The most dangerous thing about Trump is that he really does not understand the difference between truth and sales pitch. He’s been successfully selling people crap for so long that I don’t think he even understands what he’s doing anymore. So when he says “thanks Bibi for turning the troops around,”“ it’s a sales pitch. Clearly has no relationship with reality. Does Trump understand that anymore? I think the most dangerous part is that he doesn’t.
Beyond the imagery of oil gushers with all their attendant environmental contamination, let us consider how actual business is conducted. There are input and outputs. Inputs are the materials, from the raw to the finished, that go into any final product (output). Companies manage inputs with suppliers and contractual cost accounting (the promised provided parts, cost, transportation to a facility, etc.). This management assures that a business will have enough parts at a reasonable cost to make something and provide it in a timely manner on a continuing basis to make a profit, paying workers, maintaining factories, and “the business”. Often the input supply chain is segregated into short-, medium-, and longer-term timeframes depending on the raw material and manufacturing considerations.
The oil and gas business is no different. Refiners contract quantities of oil (and gas) with upstream providers to provide raw materials for creating a variety of hydrocarbon products. The inputs and outputs are finely tuned to accommodate demand, optimize manufacturing capabilities, and account for supply chain variabilities. A “planner” in a refinery finds crude oil purchase opportunities spanning the short, medium, and longer term. The medium- and longer-term contracts represent economic stability for a facility assuring that profitability will be optimized medium and long term. Short term, “spot market pricing”, is sometimes used for opportunities, but is not the preferred accounting of most stable business.
A gusher represents a market upset. A short-term event. Not something that most businesses use to plan the forward momentum of business growth. It is the same for any business. Flood the market with a previously restricted resource or input, and it does not create any instant lasting change in the output price. Supply chain stability creates price stability. No one runs a business on gushers. It is no way to run a domestic or world economy.
I agree. May I also offer material input, production, distribution, and consumption are a tightly coupled system. Perturbations have a “butterfly effect” extending well beyond the initial. The second, of course, the flow of oil is more akin to just-in-time versus gross surplus. Even if flow returned today, the supply delay and replenishment will reflect the disruption as you so well noted.
Iran got the Trump treatment: lies, misrepresentations, shifting claims, daily turnarounds, absence of diplomacy or diplomats (is Trump doing this alone?). Unsurprisingly, they walked away. Can we blame them?
Yep. And another day of losing for Americans (at least for those of us who are still sane).
And the hits keep on coming. Just today, Trump announced that he’s appointing Bill Pulte to replace Tulsi Gabbard as acting DNI director. Of course, Pulte has no relevant experience for this job. None. And, as ‘acting’ director, he doesn’t need congressional approval.
How nice! Another incompetent ass-kissing Trump appointee in his cabinet.
This jackass president will be the death of America.
It is obvious to all, DJT is a trap of his own making. Of course, with him the opposite of what he says is always true. “I don’t care” is his own admission the futility and collapse of his “excursion.” Now he hopes Netanyahu will bail him and he fabulates peace deals. His demand NATO bail him out is a resounding NO. He speaks to “blowing them to Kingdom come” failing to realize he never mobilized our country to achieve that end. In practical terms, the war’s illegitimacy delimits our capacity to seize the uranium or force the Straits open.
The clock is ticking down. At present, the price of gas is high but people still drive about. When price becomes opportunity costs such as the cancelled vacation, then using the bus in lieu of driving to work; when life’s necessities are triaged; when not if.
Trump is learning it is one thing to wheel, deal, and defraud in Manhattan. It is quite another with sovereign nations when their blood & treasure are the coin of the realm.
The solution is beyond Trump. It now rests with Congress to declare an end.