@michaelpachter.bsky.social
Proud to be woke because I care about social justice. Paying taxes is a high class problem. Vote because you care about others and recognize that other people can do well and make society better
Trump is melting down tonight. Thousands of words posted
He must have figured out that Melania didn’t win an Oscar
So interesting that a film about Putin won an Oscar while a film about Melania was blanked
Oil prices are up by around $40 since Trump’s vanity war started
That means gasoline price will rise by 44 x 2.3¢ = $1.01/gallon
Thanks for attending my TED talk /3 end
1/44 of the cost of a barrel. At $66, crude costs $1.50 plus $1.15 of all other costs, leading to $2.65 per gallon. Prices are higher in states with higher taxes (California) or more strict limits on refining (California)
If crude goes up by $1, gasoline goes up by 1/44, or by 2.3¢/gallon /2
For all the pundits on news talk shows trying to figure out the impact of crude price on gasoline price
A rule of thumb is that transportation and marketing is around $0.15/gallon, refining around $0.50 and taxes around $0.50
There are 44 gallons of product in a barrel, so crude cost is . . . /1
Attention! MELANIA is now available on Amazon Prime. Below is a picture of the haunted man who actually paid to see it:
He pivots almost immediately to blaming the left and Democrats; im sorry dude, it is totally fair game for the other party to amplify stuff that sows division on the other side (the right does it all the time), and Dems are not the reason you got eaten alive by your own party and its movements
How is the war in Iran going?
Trump used a photo of a dead soldiers casket in a fundraising appeal and now he's playing golf.
Oil at $100 adds a full percentage point to inflation
Higher inflation lowers the likelihood that the Fed cuts rates
High interest rates mean slower growth
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@velshimsnow.bsky.social Ali repeatedly says gas prices will rise in lockstep with crude prices. That isn’t right
Transportation, refining, marketing and taxes total around $1 per gallon for gasoline. Crude feedstock is the rest
The increase in crude is around 2.5¢/gallon for each $1/barrel
I think this is right
Iran knows that the people don’t have the stomach for continued killing of civilians, any risk to US troops or continued spending on a vanity war
We will give in before they do
Another disingenuous argument
Showing ID to exercise a PRIVILEGE (getting on a plane or buying liquor) is not remotely equivalent to showing PROOF OF CITIZENSHIP to exercise a Constitutional RIGHT
Don’t let them gaslight you
Nobody questions the military’s effectiveness, but it’s hard to be “proud” of the military killing schoolchildren and not acknowledging that fact
Only the best and brightest 👀
Iran won't be a forever war. We will give up in a few weeks .
by Pete Hegseth
I agree. I think Jews are evenly split on support for Israel and the war mongering comes from faux Christians like Huckabee and Lindsey Graham
Around 155 million voted in the 2024 elections. An estimated 69 million are married women who adopted their husbands’ names. None of these 69 million have a birth certificate matching their registered voting name
The SAVE act would require each of them to prove citizenship if they want to vote
Grok: if Dunning and Kruger had a baby, what would he look like?
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Pete Hegseth is openly calling on Trump-friendly oligarchs to take over the media while unshackling the military from the "rules of engagement" he hates so much. What he really wants is a world in which horrors like the school bombing don't ever fully come to light.
newrepublic.com/article/2077...
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When you're tempted to blame Trump's war for the cost of gas, remember this is still the Biden economy.
It's ridiculous to say Stephen Miller's head looks like Satan's butt plug. It's insulting and sad to see what political discourse in this country has come to. Satan's butt plug looks like Stephen Miller's head. There is a big difference.
The day begins with a former Fox host turned Trump administration official ranting at the media over his own failings and ends with a former Fox host turned Trump administration official ranting at a judge over her own failings.
BOASBERG: “.. the subpoenas’ dominant (if not sole) purpose is to harass and pressure Powell ..
“.. the Government has offered no evidence whatsoever that Powell committed any crime other than displeasing the President ..”
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Everything she said is true
This crazy judge is requiring EVIDENCE of CRIMINAL ACTIVITY before allowing Pirro to seek an indictment
Imagine that!
That Bessent thing where he got pulled out of a TV interview to speak with Trump and came back an hour later looking rattled was fucked up. Things are far worse than we know.
Not a shred of truth here. The President cannot impart oil prices UNLESS he limits production by law or war
US production is at record highs, and Biden didn’t get in the way
Oil prices are up because of Trump’s vanity war, driving gasoline $1 per gallon higher
5,000 Marines are going to the desert to fight a war, Trump's going to Palm Beach to fight the greens.
It is almost like there is nothing else to talk about