Drill Baby Drill...the US Politics Thread (Part 2)

I expect those in the Anglosphere have already taken note. I would imagine Canada, Australia and the UK/Ireland could be major beneficiaries.

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https://x.com/unusual_whales/status/1898750875679801534
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https://x.com/spectatorindex/status/1898879302550376683

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I just have to repeat this,
‘Canadians like to cheat!’ Lutnick US secretary of commerce.
There you go @toro what do you think of that?

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To my knowledge Trump has not been required to explain his 180 on this. I think it’s healthy to give politicians room to change their mind on something, but when it is an issue so central to his election in 2016 and the policy of his first term then you should not get a free pass to make such an abrupt change in course and not level with the people over why. Of course nothing close to that will happen

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Because Trump has threatened them with military strikes if they don’t negociate with him.
Isn’t there a word for this?

This from the administration that accused Ukraine of ‘playing with world war III’.
You just could make this up, not even the most scatshit crazy movie has ever got close.

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Dumbfucks don’t know that technically we are ALL somewhere on that spectrum. That’s the whole of humanity, past, present, future.

Toro be like “the FAAAaarr lefty woke online mob want the polar bears in Greenland to stay Danish and transgender”

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Absolutely, going forward, there might be a great chance for European or Asian universities to attract US brains, or at least, to bring back their own brains.

Hopefully they’ll seize the chance. I can’t imagine intelligent people tolerating this shitshow much longer. As soon as they’ll be hampered in their research work by these fools, they’ll start looking if other places are more promising. Especially in the field of fundamental research, that might open up a big chance for other countries to overtake the US in the long run.

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The academy Aix Marseille has recently launched a recruitment drive with this in mind.

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But he’s spent 10 years arguing they are not reliable partners. Not only can they not be negotiated with but existing agreements were to be ripped up and replaced with open military hostility

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So what ever Iran do they will face hostile military intervention from the US.

I knew that btw I was just emphasising how diplomatic this US administration is.
Negociating technique put opposition in an impossible situation, blame them for everything then thump them.

@Flobs

At the gold medal game in Salt Lake City, the guy in charge of the ice was Canadian. He put a loonie at center ice for good luck. It worked. We won.

That’s what he is talking about.

Net zero = net zero power
Net zero = net zero economic growth
Net zero = net zero industry

We were buying PDPs @ 20% IRRs a few years back. Now we’re buying coal power plants @ 4x EBITDA.

Ka-ching!

Thank you, extreme woke far leftists, for letting us print money like this.

Drill baby, drill!

Well I suppose it might be technically over 100% if no-one is coming over from Mexico now and Americans are illegally fleeing the US and heading South?

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Someone needs their medication again.

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The Iranian regime are evil bastards from hell, which means they will soon be allies of the US. They certainly have a lot in common regarding women’s rights, gay rights, freedom of speech and many other issues.

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I’ll admit, they’ve got me intrigued. Time will tell whether they’re just delusionally ideological, or that they’re right about the swinging of the pendulum (thanks to political capture) back towards government subsidies for fossil fuels.

Or, to put it a different way, if they think that fossil fuel assets are undervalued because of a supposed ideological agenda, then putting their money where their mouth is I can at least grudgingly respect. Just don’t expect me to feel too sorry if, as I expect, it’s priced that way simply because the market is realistic enough to realise that these are soon going to be liabilities far more than assets, without the requisite political support.

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I dont think that will matter tbh, hence all the talk of canada and greenland etc, trump will want as much as possible so him and a select few can make billions etc…and they can produce all their information as fact that climate change is a scam etc…

By time the democrats come around again to addressing it ( if america is still around as we know it) the problem is theirs and not trumps.

Do you think the Democrats will ever be allowed to regain power?