soonergrunt

He couldn't give a half a shit if you or I (or anyone else for that matter) actually believes him.
Unless that reporter or another pushed back right then and there, it's out there and his supporters, especially the ones that fantasize about killing people like us for him, will run with it.

No. He's telling this lie so that his supporters won't abandon him.
The truth is not necessary.

accompanied “[t]he King[’s] [ability to] wield significant power [to] both creat[e] and fill[] offices as he saw fit.”13 This division of power means that the President may not always be able to appoint his first choice to a specific office, and he may sometimes have to wait for the Senate to act, which can take time. But that is the point of this divided authority, not a defect.14 “Friction between the branches is an inevitable consequence of our Constitutional structure,”15 and “‘[c]onvenience and efficiency’ . . . ‘are not the primary objectives’ of our constitutional framework.”16 One year into this administration, it is plain that President Trump and his top aides have chafed at the limits on their power set forth by law and the Constitution. To avoid these roadblocks, this administration frequently purports to have discovered enormous grants of executive power hidden in the vagaries and silences of the code.17 Here, the Government proffers that, notwithstanding Congress’s clear and unambiguous requirement of Presidential nomination and Senate confirmation before a person may exercise the powers of a United States Attorney—a limit established by the First Congress and unchanged for over 236 years—Congress also, through a tangled web of broad enactments using general language, simultaneously

Judge Matthew Brann rules that "triumvirate" leadership structure of US Atty's Office in NJ is an illegal attempt to evade senate confirmation.

This is the judge who DQ'd Alina Habba, and the opinion comes out swinging.

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Trump speaking after markets close is usually a sign he’ll say something bad for the economy, and the White House communications team doesn’t want a graph with the line going down and blaring red numbers with a minus sign on the screen with him when he does.

juicy Presidential Divorce headlines.

It goes back to Bill Clinton slipping out of their fingers in Whitewater.
They desperately wanted to get a Presidential scalp like everybody credits WaPo. And they didn't.
And then Hillary did what most spouses in unfaithful marriages do, she stayed in the marriage, and denied them the months of

The only people worse are the Claremont Institute.

what dipshit wrote that?

"A Few Good Men" was in theaters when I was in Army PLDC (called something else now, but first phase of formal leadership training) and the Instructor ordered us to all go see it while we were on pass because we were starting the military justice portion of the training the day after.

The WSJ economics lead saying he uses X for "learning" as WSJ's estimate missed the jobs numbers by miles should be a huge loud warning to media still using the platform. You're getting bad info!

The Live Nation settlement thing is a total mess. Counsel for DOJ didn't know there was a settlement in court this morning!

Sinking Iran’s Frigate IRIS Dena and the Law of Naval Warfare Legal explainer concerning the attack on Iranian vessel, the IRIS Dena, and the U.S. submarine, the USS Charlotte, lack of attempted rescue.

A good legal analysis of the sinking of the Dena from IHL experts: www.justsecurity.org/133397/sinki...

Considering how DHS and FBI under Patel lies about everything, I ain't believing this without independent confirmation.
It's just the kind of thing to claim if you want to lay the groundwork for suspending elections or some other such fuckery.

None of what they're doing will create long-term stability in the oil market or in the region.

Wut?

It's blocked, but I assume that somebody tried to either explain your own field to you, or said something about using milk to flush out the eyes.

Oh yeah. Billions of dollars are going to disappear at 9:01AM EST.

Some improvement overnight, but still down by ~1%
MSNOW is showing different numbers.

Further to this-
If the post makes you feel angry or if it makes you feel smug, you need to take a beat.

VOLARE!!!! OH OHOOHOOHO

So did civil servants.

Apropos of nothing at all, I just watched S1E1 of Buffy about an hour ago because I just had this random desire to start watching the series again.

Dow Futures down 2.48% or ~ 1050 points to open tomorrow.
S&P500 down 2.00% or ~135pts
NASDAQ to open down 2.35% or 580 pts down.

well, the owners will hold off. My point is that oil isn't going anywhere, especially if they can't get insured.

WTI crude oil now UP 25% tonight...
$114.39/bbl

We live out in the far edge where there are no Costcos, so we build our shipping list and one of us (usually me since I get off earlier) makes a run.
Even with the kids out of the house it's still worth it just for the gas.

20 to 30 cents cheaper in Salt Lake City.

My wife and I both have Costcos near our workplaces.
The exec membership is $110/year, and we make back a couple times that just in gas.

Again, there's not benefit to the tanker companies of they can sit for a couple weeks and the oil they bought at $55/bbl they can sell at $110/bbl

Iraqi oil production collapses with Strait of Hormuz blocked by conflict, sources say Iraqi oil ‌production from its main southern oilfields has fallen by 70% to just 1.3 million barrels per day as the country is unable to export oil via the Strait of Hormuz due to ​the Iran war, three industry sources said on Sunday.

Iraqi oil production collapses with Strait of Hormuz blocked by conflict, sources say reut.rs/4rmqFXE