Apparently, there is now zero oil being exported by Saudi Arabia – courtesy of the recent Houthi attack on the east-west pipeline that served as the way around the blocked Strait of Hormuz. The one Trump and his amen chorus – including Glenn Beck – insist is not only open but wide open. Beck said on his show yesterday that the quantity of oil moving through the Strait is now the same as it was before the war began and Iran closed the Strait.
Someone’s lying. I wonder who?
And, why?
If the Strait is wide open, as Beck and others still defending Trump claim it is – and if the east-west pipeline hasn’t been effectively shut down by the recent Houthi attacks, totally shutting down Saudi Arabia’s oil exports – how come the price of oil (and gas and diesel) continues to increase and not just by a couple of cents every couple of weeks but by more than 30 cents in just one week for gas?
Why is diesel now more than $6 per gallon?
It does not make sense unless someone is lying – or someone is grifting. When it comes to Trump, it is often both. He did, after all, assure us that the war would be over in a couple of weeks, which was more than a couple of months ago. He now assures us that the cost of gas is going to go down to $2 per gallon after the midterms, but only if Republicans don’t lose control of Congress. When they do – as seems a certain bet right now – Trump will probably then blame “the Democrats” for gas being $5 or $6 per gallon and diesel being close to $10 per gallon.
Marvel at the needless wreck Trump has engineered – assuming he is lying about the situation (or is so delusional that he thinks he isn’t lying, which amounts to the same thing). It is only one year and nine months since Trump’s second inauguration. It feels like it was a lot longer ago than that, for the same reason that a hard winter feels like it’s never going to end and the previous summer is a distant memory.
In March of 2025, gas was about $3 per gallon in most parts of the country – and trending lower. Elon’s Musk was taking a scythe to “government waste.” Remember USAID being shuttered, with the Department of Education and other obnoxious, tax-consuming bureaucracies seemingly next? It felt – briefly, like a meth high – that things were actually changing and for once, in a less-government (and less expensive) direction. There was no war and not even a rumor of war. I personally hadn’t felt as optimistic as I felt during those first few months of Second Trump since I had when the Berlin Wall came down and it seemed that maybe I’d get to spend the second half of my life in a relatively stable, relatively functional America. If you were there, you remember it also and probably felt similarly. Things felt hopeful. The antics of Bill Clinton were amusing because we could afford to be amused by them. That great sucking sound predicted by Ross Perot was only a background whisper back then.
Then everything changed on that September day a quarter century ago. The vibe got meaner and smaller-minded. But we were able to carry on because even though everything had gotten very bent – if you see something say something! – it wasn’t yet that bad. It is now that bad – and much worse because of the reckless needlessness of it.
What would the scene be like right now, today, if Trump hadn’t attacked Iran? Well, as Laura Ingraham noted in the course of her recent interview with Trump just prior to the “Republican Midterm Convention” last week, it is all-but-certain the Republicans would have retained their congressional majority and perhaps even expanded it. The midterms would have been a referendum on the success of the Second Trump administration rather than the repudiation of its failure that seems imminent. A strong Republican showing would have renewed Trump’s mandate and made politically possible a number of things that might just have made America Better Again (a much better slogan than Make America Great Again) by life getting better again, for us regular Americans. How much better would it be if it cost $40 to fill up rather than the $65 it now costs to fill up? How about hamburger at $4 per pound rather than $8?
How about not so infuriating so many people such that people even worse than the people who populated the “Joe Biden” regime now seem to those infuriated people to be the only way to make their lives maybe a little better again? That it won’t is as obvious as it is irrelevant. Back in ’08, infuriated people voted for Hope and Change because they were infuriated by The Chimp and his coterie of greedheads and grifters, by another endless, stupid war in the Middle East.
They got change, alright.
The same – and more – is no doubt coming, courtesy of the bullshit belching bloviator, who has managed to out-do The Chimp, which is no small feat. What was it King Willie said in Predator 2?
Prepare yourself!
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@Eric – For a second, I thought you had become the Pudgy Peddler with the Trump Watches ad image.
Ironically, bags and rolls the mostly copper Trump-faced One Dollar coin which sold out upon introduction at the Mint are now listed as “unavailable” on the usmint.gov web site.
My guess is that they are having a problem getting the copper.
Morning, Roscoe!
I may become pudgy one day, but I’ll never become a peddler!
I included the watch pic – only $499! – to convey my Trump Disgust.
It’s all so depressing.
Yeah, sums it all up perfectly.