$120 a barrel

[Spikes]

I'm paying about a dollar more than 2 weeks ago. Last filled up at $2.79/gal, now $3.69. America first, amirite?

[CptTrips]

I'm paying about a dollar more than 2 weeks ago. Last filled up at $2.79/gal, now $3.69. America first, amirite?

This is just the preliminary rise.  Think of it as catastrophic economic foreplay.

It takes about a month for the true effect of the prices will start digging in.  It will hit everything.  Remember 70's Stagflation?  You will.

At least we freed the Iranian people and we didn't even have to lift sanctions on Putin to do it!  THAT is how you pull off a well planned operation, Boy!

Oh.  Wait...

[Eagler]

Refresher course...

Eagler

[CptTrips]

Oh yeah.

I'm not expecting shortages per se. 
I am expecting high prices at the pump and everywhere else.
Cost of everything will go up. 
We produce oil.  The companies will make money.  But the petroleum we use is purchased at global market price.  We feed into, but draw from the global supply like everyone else.

Unless he makes an EO to ban exports.  That might keep prices here lower.  But the corps wouldn't like that so I don't think he would do that.

I'm sensing a TACO coming.
He is going to say we did our part and it's the rest of the world's job to open the Strait.
He'll give himself the Nobel Peace Prize and declare victory and move on to Cuba.

And leave the world and the Iranian people hanging.
 

[CptTrips]

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/16/us-is-allowing-iranian-tankers-through-strait-of-hormuz-says-bessent.html

Iran's tankers are getting through.
China's tankers are getting through.
Putin get's his sanctions lifted.

I guess "we've mostly, pretty much already won in many ways.  A lot of people are saying so."

[icepac]

I grew up in miami and my cuban friends are excited about the possibility of cuba without communism.

[rabbidrabbit]

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/16/us-is-allowing-iranian-tankers-through-strait-of-hormuz-says-bessent.html

Iran's tankers are getting through.
China's tankers are getting through.
Putin get's his sanctions lifted.

I guess "we've mostly, pretty much already won in many ways.  A lot of people are saying so."

My understanding is the only sanctions lifted on Russia was the tankers stranded from the last sanctions. 

[CptTrips]

My understanding is the only sanctions lifted on Russia was the tankers stranded from the last sanctions.

11 billion dollars worth.

And that won't be the last.

This goat rodeo ain't ending any time soon.

[Eagler]

Asking the other countries for help now...even as he says he destroyed Iran..then getting mad at them for not helping with the war he and Israel started seems mental at this point..

Are we sure he is all there these days...

Still amazed one moron can cause all of this ...  but it was his turn to testify...

Eagler

[CptTrips]

Asking the other countries for help now...even as he says he destroyed Iran..then getting mad at them for not helping with the war he and Israel started seems mental at this point..

Are we sure he is all there these days...

Still amazed one moron can cause all of this ...  but it was his turn to testify...

Eagler

Which why the Founders didn't want just one guy making the nation's decision for war. 

There needed to have been vigorous debate.

[CptTrips]

I grew up in miami and my cuban friends are excited about the possibility of cuba without communism.

I hope so too.

That's one of those places that should be thriving as heck as a tourist paradise.  The Las Vegas of the Caribbean.

They have been il-served.

[Eagler]

Which why the Founders didn't want just one guy making the nation's decision for war. 

There needed to have been vigorous debate.

So how is he getting away with it...

As it didn't qualify as a war powers event, it is as illegal as it gets ...

Never knew one lose cannon/nut job once surrounded by a team of yes men could ever thrown the country so far into the sewer...

This is how BRICS starts looking like not so different an option than the sinking ship they are on with the dollar..

Eagler

[Animl-AW]

So how is he getting away with it...

As it didn't qualify as a war powers event, it is as illegal as it gets ...

Never knew one lose cannon/nut job once surrounded by a team of yes men could ever thrown the country so far into the sewer...

This is how BRICS starts looking like not so different an option than the sinking ship they are on with the dollar..

Eagler

Easy, enabler congress released themselves of all powers

He is not alone in fault. This entire admin has broken laws, because no one in power is stopping them. Surrounded by enablers snd Yes people, including viters who were well warned. A perfect storm.

Come on, most with common sense predicted all of this well in advance

[CptTrips]

So how is he getting away with it...

I believe our current political problem is the mechanisms of our Constitutional order were designed before the advent of strong political parties.

The different houses were meant to be populated by men with independent goals and jealous of their institutions powers.  Three adversarial branches constantly fighting to limit the power of the other two.

The Founders understood the only way you can avoid tyranny is the set them up as enemies looking over each other shoulders for any violation to charge them on.

However strong parties exert pressure outside the institution and when you get Legislature, Executive, possibly even the Judiciary all in cahoots, well,  Constitutional inconveniences can go unchallenged.  No one wants to buck the party if they want a future.  Gotta keep one unified team message. 

The designed check-and-balance safety mechanism has been hacked. 

[Busher]

So how is he getting away with it...

Never knew one lose cannon/nut job once surrounded by a team of yes men could ever thrown the country so far into the sewer...


Eagler

He got elected and he has a base that refuses to question anything he does. The Framers attempted to create a leadership of 3 branches of Government all with equal power to assure enough checks and balances, all designed to avoid the despotic monarchy you fought to leave.
Does anyone believe that in today's world Congress or the Judiciary would do anything to displease this despot?
Your local school will eventually have his name on it.