Jim Budd

“I didn’t vote for THIS,” say the manosphere podcasters who simply had no way of knowing that Trump would lie about being a populist to get into office and then govern like a autocratic lunatic once in power, other than the fact that he did it for 4 entire years before that.

This godforsaken idiot piece of shit.

Either they didn’t think about the effect of the invasion on oil and gas prices or they did and didn’t care. I wrote a paper once distinguishing malice, recklessness, negligence, and incompetence. Sometimes you get them all at once.

Oil is not up because of just the war. It’s because Trump has been bat shit crazy in how he has been talking and has made no effort to lay the case out logically.

"it is becoming increasingly hard to avoid the conclusion that the Trump administration has embarked on this operation without a plan, and is making it up as it goes along, as if they killed enough of the right people and destroyed enough Iranian assets everything would fall into place"

Kind of weird when you can watch the global market collectively go "oh shit he is that crazy".

New polling spells disaster for GOP — including among Republican voters As President Donald Trump continues to struggle with record-low approval ratings, a new NBC News poll released Monday revealed that Democrats appear well poised to take back control of Congress this November as the president’s unpopularity drags down the GOP ticket.Conducted between Feb. 27 and Marc...

New polling spells disaster for GOP — including among Republican voters

As the US/Israel attack on Iran is likely to tip the UK into recession, let's not forget that Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves are trashing our rivers, ecosystems, communities, health and resilience for the sake of economic growth. But, as they are now discovering, it's not something they can control.

Seeking Alpha: Qatar's energy minister warned that the Middle East war could "bring down the economies of the world," predicting that all Persian Gulf energy exporters would shut down production within days and drive oil to $150/bbl.
#ProudBlue #Pinks #SheShed #VoteOutRepublicans

“The goals of the mission are clear”???

Serious gaslighting happening here.

The SOB is starting a World 🌎🌍 War just to cover up him being found out in the Epstein files. Too late the World knows that the SOB is a Child Rapist Pedophile. He and his family are mentioned in the files. Stop the bloodshed. The Felon and Rubio need to send their sons to fight,they're old enough

@sanders.senate.gov: "Trump is a pathological liar. He will say anything at any time to serve his own purposes... He says he's for affordability but he gives tax breaks to the rich, sees healthcare costs soar, groceries soar, gas prices soar, etc."

As though we needed any more evidence that Fox "News" is a mendacious propaganda machine and not remotely a serious journalistic enterprise.

Still, this is pretty astounding.

what the fuck is a Shield of the Americas? it’s just Donny’s latest fascist grift, that’s all

here's today's post: "what the fuck is a Shield of the Americas?" — it’s just Donny’s latest fascist grift, that’s all.
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for fuck’s sake, this is just what we need — another vanity project so a power-mad, broken-inside piss-baby can feel good about his own loser self. it’s called the ‘Shield of the Americas.’ I know, right? it sounds exactly like something a ten-year-old boy would doodle on the cover of his notebook while he’s supposed to be paying attention in class. but it’s more than just a stupid name. it’s sort of a Sargent Fuckface’s Lonely Fascists Club Band.

oh look, Donny and his Latin American despot besties have banded together to drop more bombs on Venezuelan fishing boats. how awesome. it's called the 'Shield of America' and I mock the shit out of it in today's post. thank you for your attention to this matter. link is here: bit.ly/47jiVhG

The difference between the spike in global oil prices now versus 2022 is that this time the US president single-handedly caused it to happen overnight with a policy while accepting no responsibility, while the US president in 2022 was blamed for it even though he didn’t cause it.

A year ago we were supposed to be getting $2,000 rebate checks, DOGE was going to find $2 trillion in waste to balance the budget, we were going to pay no income taxes because tariffs would pay for everything, gas and home electric bills would be cut in half, and no new wars.

Perhaps if either of them possessed a trace-element of strategic foresight, rather than a jumble of nasty intuitions, they wouldn't get themselves into this kind of situation.

I wonder if Farage and Badenoch are having a little think about whether they should have been so gun-ho about supporting this war. You sure that's going to be a popular long-term position pal?

Screenshot of an X post by HasanAbi commenting on how to discuss trans issues with median voters. The post quotes Marco Foster, who says the anti-trans campaign in Maine is funded by an out-of-state billionaire to distract from tax discussions and notes that very few trans kids compete in high school sports there. Below is a podcast-style video still of a man speaking into a microphone.

When you hear them target any vulnerable community—immigrants, trans people, refugees—ask first why they're trying to distract and divide us. Don't fall for it.

That was also true in Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan.

"We can't last 35 more months with what we've seen over the last 13.

We cannot do it. We will not survive it as a nation."

"He seems to have had no idea that the Gulf would be a target. … He professed that Iran’s attacks on American allies were 'probably the biggest surprise'—despite the fact that just about every country in the region had warned that Iran would surely attack them in retaliation."

Pope Leo calls for end to war in Middle East <article data-history-node-id="435140" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/pope-leo-calls-end-war-middle-east" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/pope-leo-calls-end-war-middle-east" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Pope Leo calls for end to war in Middle East</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>Pope Leo, the head of the Roman Catholic Church, has urged an end to the conflict in the Middle East in an address at the Angelus prayer in Saint Peter's Square.</p> <p>"Let us raise our humble prayer to ⁠the Lord that the roar ⁠of bombs may cease, ⁠that weapons may fall silent, and that space may be opened for ‌dialogue in which the voices of peoples can ‌be heard," he said.</p> <p>The pontiff added that the conflict could spread to other countries, including "dear Lebanon".</p> </div> </div> </article>

Pope Leo calls for end to war in Middle East - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/pope-leo-calls-end-war-middle-east

The people in Hungary are showing that they have enough of Orban.

DOJ confirmed that 47,635 Epstein files have been removed.

That’s ANOTHER 47,635 reasons why we need ACCOUNTABILITY!