97% white participants and only mentions socioeconomic status while discussing possible avenues for further research.

This is my immediate thought too. I have been under the impression that, after having their infrastructure partially nationalized during the Bolivarian revolution Chevron and the like viewed Venezuelan oil as too risky to invest the absolute shitloads of money they would need to to expand their production beyond where it already is. Maybe Chevron is uniquely positioned for this because of the extent of their preexisting infrastructure, but I’m curious to see if they just slow walk the deal until Trumps out, or something?

I certainly think the possibility of Venezuelans throwing a wrench in the plans after anger with the theft of their sovereignty boils over is greater than zero, but, like, who knows what’s being said beyond public knowledge. Maybe the bad taste left by Maduro is enough where thats just not a risk? Maybe there’s some other assurances we aren’t privvy to? Maybe Chevron is just greedy enough to try regardless?

I would love to see the logic behind that belief. It’s gonna be a good read. According to the first few results on the internet, the entier oil industry is, like, 4 Trillion per year (IEA says 3.5 Trillion in 2018). What the fuck is the slop bot supposed to do to make almost an entire US GDP of money?

This statement is really weird, even for Trump because in the question asked immediately prior he clearly understands the question about whether he directed Bessant to intervene in the bond market stating.

“Not at all. No, he’s a very capable man. He wanted to do it. He’s very good at it. He is a good touch. Very good natural touch for the bonds and interest.”

Right? He understands ehats beung spoken about, or his answer at least makes it sound like he does.

Then the reporter mentions that yields came back up and asks if Trump was going to direct Bessant to do “some other type of intervention”. At this point Trump suggests military intervention.

He goes from “Bond market intervention” -> “Interest rates” (reasonable) to “Intervention” -> “I might direct the military to attack the bond market” (deranged) in, like 10 seconds. Is he just playing word association? Is he fucking with the reporter?

There’s an AP article that was published yesterday, I think, which has interviews with a few of the people who went to Ceuta. A common theme was young men who are struggling to find work in Morocco thinking that there might be better prospects in Spain, followed by the realization that there really wasn’t for them. Might be worth the read if you’re curious.

Work work.

The guy who posted this, Thinkpiece Tribe, has some fantastic videos on his YouTube.

Here’s to hoping they have a pre-programmed kill limit

What’s that saying about oil prices? “Up like a rocket, down like a feather”

Profit?

Cory Robin’s book on Thomas taught me that you can learn a lot about the supreme court justices by reading the opinions they’ve wrote. I don’t have the time to now, but if you’re genuinely curious it would be a good starting point.

is this one?

Probably petrochemicals.

I often wonder if they believe this themselves, or if they just cynically say crap like this out of contempt for people.

It’s WoW. I don’t even want to know how much WoW I’ve played.

The most fascinating thing I saw on that wiki page was that Lizzie Borden owned an electric vehicle… and she isn’t even the worst person on the list. lol

I’m not sure that’s accurate. I mean, Heusinger, who was a high-ranking member of the Wehrmacht, was later a West German general, and a Chairman at NATO. Definitely striking, but not the only similar example. Denazification was woefully incomplete.

Only his election chance are dead… Orban got off easier than the Pope.

Call him daddy again, Rutte.

Someone finally listend to their lawyers