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Can I take a moment to complain about Trump's order to reject any attempt to block the construction of mines on the moon from the end of the last thread? Because despite what scifi authors like to talk about, the moon's composition makes it a pretty bad choice for space mining. Most wannabe space miners look more to asteroids where there's a good selection of metallic ones that are easier to get to with way more payoff. I know it's because some idiot got a bug up their butt and Trump saw a chance to look like a strong man again, but the depths of stupidity from this administration is weird.
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DaveWoo posted:https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1247900240155295745 "Okay, this time it has to be a fake tweet or parody account." It's never a fake tweet or parody account when I say that. 
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Apr 8, 2020 16:32
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Doctor Teeth posted:https://twitter.com/Sludge/status/1248362054894878720 Everyone is looking for the corruption angle on this because there's always a corruption angle on Trump, but the simpler answer is that lovely reporting of a fake study got a ton of attention because the news media has no loving clue how to report on science and health topics, then Trump latched onto it as a quick fix for his problems. Pizza might have pushed for it after the media latched onto it, but there doesn't need to be a trail of people who told Trump about hydroxychloroquine because it was all over television and we know he doesn't do anything except watch that.
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Apr 10, 2020 00:14
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Dick Trauma posted:Good news everyone! To state the obvious: the yearly flu is a pandemic.
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Apr 13, 2020 14:30
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KillHour posted:Trump is touting that he's making oil prices go up because it makes his oil industry friends happy. He doesn't care what the average person wants and never did. A smart politician would bring up things like, "Yes, gas prices are low, but they're so low that they're hurting people like this totally [not] random sampling of blue collar oil workers who just happened to turn up here at the White House for this photo op. And that's why we have a target price for oil that we want to maintain." It's not impossible to sell intentionally raising gas prices as a good thing, especially when a 20% increase is still "really cheap" in people's minds. Trump's just very bad at this.
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Apr 13, 2020 15:54
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CmdrRiker posted:So the options are crashing the oil production in the country or raising gas prices during mass unemployment? Legitimately yes though that's reducing it to the most basic level. Energy policy is a delicate balancing act at the best of times and that's before you include the international diplomacy aspect of it. There's no good answers here and we haven't even factored in the environmental issues. I guess I should mention that I full expect both Saudi Arabia and Russia to make statements soon that say, "We don't know what the gently caress Trump is talking about," since announcing he's made a deal when he hasn't done jack poo poo is one of Trump's favorite moves. Trump doesn't have any leverage in this situation and can't even play with the levers that presidents usually have.
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Apr 13, 2020 16:10
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This is your daily reminders that Trump does not know how government works and will make imperial declarations from his throne that he doesn't actually have the ability to do.
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Apr 13, 2020 16:12
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BiggerBoat posted:Also, I had a good idea for a thread: "Post Famous Movie Speeches as Delivered by Donald Trump" but not sure where to put it. GBS I guess? Except it'll get poo poo up there. "Not many people know this but all of Italy had this guy named Borja. And the fake news said they were some bad people. Bad people. They don't talk about how there was Michelangelo and Leonardo. Great guys. Switzerland, nice people. I always liked the Swiss. Good banks. They've been at peace for 500 years because of their strong borders. They made clocks there. The best clocks."
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Apr 13, 2020 17:42
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haveblue posted:The whole country's going to starve to death in the name of South Dakota liberty, lol Trump's gotten Pestilence, War, and Death going, so he's been hard at work starting Famine.
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Apr 14, 2020 17:38
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Grouchio posted:How closely should I be paying attention to the West Coast and New York pacts if I live in Maine? Should I anticipate secession? James Buchanan: My place at the top of the list of the worst presidents is secure thanks to my tireless work to break apart the union. Trump: Hold my Diet Coke.
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Apr 14, 2020 19:02
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Flying-PCP posted:Something about a system to facilitate hospitals loaning ventilators to each other, since (according to him) there are 60,000 unused ones in hospitals This has to be a Jared idea since it demonstrates a monumentally deep failure of understanding. "Look at all these hospitals without anyone on a ventilator! There's all that equipment just sitting around!"
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Apr 14, 2020 23:52
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Dapper_Swindler posted:he will walk back on that too when stuff doesnt open up right away. like yeah he has no powers but lol. One thing to keep in mind in these "Trump declares things that he has absolutely no control over" situations that he does have one power he use: the prestige of his office. Obviously that's going to mean jack poo poo to a state with a democratic governor, the desire to go along with what Trump says is going to carry weight in shithole states. The positive side of this is that going along with what Trump wants is a surefire way to burn your own house down. That's a bit of a negative, too, though.
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Apr 14, 2020 23:57
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Dietrich posted:Dr. Pepper is not owned by Pepsico here in America, they just piggyback on their distribution network. It's regional bottling and it varies a lot. I just moved from a state where Dr. Pepper distribution is handled by Coke to one where it is handled by Pepsi. It's just which regional bottling company has the license. I wouldn't be surprised if there's a few more soda brands like that, but Dr. Pepper is the only one that I know of. Maybe 7up, however since Sprite is a Coke brand it's not like they're going to get bottled by Coke.
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Apr 16, 2020 12:55
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There needs to be a serious inquiry into WHO's handling of the early stages of COVID-19 and possibly retooling the organization so they're more insulated from pressures that would encourage them to downplay situations. I don't know if that's going to happen with Trump working hard to poison the well and eliminate any US influence over the body, though.
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Apr 17, 2020 14:48
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There Bias Two posted:Uhhh. Is he calling for supporters to literally rise up? I think, and I'm being very generous with my interpretation, that he's calling for opposition to those states' governors and electing Republicans. It can't be about opening up businesses there since it's specifically targeted. It is couched in violent rhetoric because 90% of everything from the right is couched in violent rhetoric.
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Apr 17, 2020 16:35
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The Glumslinger posted:He is going to get so many people killed You can use past tense there
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Apr 17, 2020 16:50
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Zwabu posted:So.. I've read a few of the articles being floated around by righties about "Covid 19 is an escaped bioweapon from a lab!", places like the NY Post etc. There's absolutely nothing except conjecture hung on loose, unassociated facts. In other words, a conspiracy theory. A good sanity check is who is saying this: nobody with actual expertise is saying that it's a bioweapon.
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Apr 17, 2020 16:56
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BigglesSWE posted:The fat Cheeto is about to throw some more tantrums now. I'm hoping that someone asks him about his calls to "liberate" some states and instead of backing down he actually calls for violence.
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Apr 17, 2020 23:25
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Mat Cauthon posted:https://twitter.com/spectatorindex/status/1252202300426252288?s=19 Do you think he even remembers bragging last week about getting a deal between Russia and Saudi Arabia to stop crashing the price? Will he start bragging about low gas prices instead?
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Apr 20, 2020 13:29
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Herstory Begins Now posted:we're getting a real time experience of just how trump managed to bankrupt a casino, except with our country That's not fair. Trump bankrupted his casinos through completely different type of incompetence than he's using to kill the US. He can be awful in multiple ways!
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Apr 20, 2020 16:33
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Wow. I actually found a way to hate him more. I didn't think that was possible.
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Apr 20, 2020 17:09
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Pick posted:Oil traded at $4.04/barrel. I'm going to buy a bunch of barrels, dump the oil and then use the barrels to build a boat for the inevitable global warming flooding!
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Apr 20, 2020 18:32
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Fart Amplifier posted:I didn't expect a reverse Mad Max apocalypse where roving bandits are trying to force people to take their oil Now you know how everyone can have convoys of death cars but nobody has water.
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Apr 20, 2020 19:05
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Dr. Derek posted:Apparently Saudi arabia had forced prices down by about 60$ in an attempt to pressure Russia and combined with the dramatic drop in demand for oil and gasoline, things just kinda cratered. Once we all get the jokes out of our systems (and in all fairness, watching oil companies fortunes go up in smoke is hilarious), I wonder what's going to happen with Russia. Oil was the only thing they had.
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Apr 20, 2020 19:14
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My corner gas station has started giving out free tanks of gas with a purchase of a large soda. Honestly won't be shocked if something like that starts happening as refineries start running as hard as they can just to clear up oil storage space.
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Apr 20, 2020 19:18
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Charliegrs posted:If oil is in the negative does that mean gas will be negative? Will they pay us to fill up our tanks? Serious answer is no, the actual cost of materials is only a portion of the price of gas. But since there might be some storage space left for gasoline, there's a real possibility of cranking out more gas while that's cheap .80 to .90 a gallon is a real possibility.
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Apr 20, 2020 19:50
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Bashez posted:So what happens if you buy some of this negative oil? It's going to be funny when a bunch of people think that this is the moment to get into commodities trading and try to do something like that. It's going to be even more funny when Trump tells people to go out and buy oil later today.
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Apr 20, 2020 20:14
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Fart Amplifier posted:Also the idea that somehow oil prices are going to rebound significantly is probably wrong (I'm an economic genius). When people are stuck with a bunch of oil nobody wants it's going to affect how much people are going to want to pay for oil next month Tomorrow it'll almost definitely be positive again. But after this madness and a lot of people getting burned, I won't be shocked if it stays in single digits.
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Apr 20, 2020 21:20
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Let's not be hasty. Maybe the "certain cultures" they're referring to are CHUDs.
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Apr 20, 2020 22:26
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Syenite posted:Andrew Jackson would like a word. Trump has his genocide caused for his personal benefit under his belt, so Jackson no longer has that giving him a leg up in the worst presidents ranking. The only thing standing between Trump and indisputably worst president is intentionally causing a US civil war, and he's working on that.
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Apr 21, 2020 13:00
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cr0y posted:Lmao we are gonna bail out the oil market They already did that about a month ago paying a bit above market rate for oil. I don't know if the strategic reserve was full after that first bailout, but if it isn't after yesterday then someone hosed up. That limits good options here other that direct bailout. On the "positive" side of things, the oil industry actually does employ a ton of people and is central to the economies of a lot of states. So a bailout in this case actually has a chance of helping people. But bailing out some of the wealthiest companies on earth who are actively killing everyone on the planet isn't great...
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Apr 21, 2020 15:01
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Ika posted:You actually think they will keep their workers and contracters after getting the bailout? Not a chance, I was talking in the theoretical.
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Apr 21, 2020 15:44
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evilweasel posted:he's asking himself for rent relief unconnected to the official bailout money. the federal government leases him the building for his dc hotel. That would be the lease that explicitly says that the renter cannot be a federal employee, correct?
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Apr 21, 2020 21:37
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Guze posted:Don't know why my neighbors are so pissed. Its MY RIGHT AND MY FREEDOM to set MY YARD on fire. Are you all of my neighbors because this is something that they all did during the winter. I've never seen it before I moved to my new place last year but everybody has just set their yards on fire like that was a perfectly sane thing to do.
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Apr 22, 2020 17:01
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The next two years of elections are going to be referendums on "This person tried to kill you!" versus "Die for the DOW!" It's kind of disturbing that I don't know which way people will vote with that.
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Apr 22, 2020 21:14
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Killer robot posted:They do constant airshows all year as it is, 1-2 a week. With those presumably not happening, it's presumably just continuing their already budgeted operations, moving the site from "visible from paying crowd at airport" to "visible from people in town", and saying it's a tribute to medical responders instead. This, plus needing to make sure the Blue Angels pilots get their flight hours, is almost definitely what is happening here. It's stupid and goofy, but it's probably a way to keep themselves running during COVID-19. It would be better for the US in general if they did close down, but that's a separate discussion.
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Apr 23, 2020 17:34
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The best(?) part of Trump's bleach is a cure talk is the number of people who are discovering that there's a "drink bleach to cure all diseases!" movement out there that's been growing in the past several years.
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Apr 24, 2020 16:36
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Not only does Trump not plan, if he did plan this was an amazingly stupid one. The second round of money went through today. Regardless of how lovely the bill is, it's a freebie win for Trump. Nobody is going to talk about that because the president said "Bleach is good for you! Also, maybe shine tanning lamps down your throat."
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Apr 24, 2020 17:52
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Dapper_Swindler posted:i guess they really arnt doing a briefing anymore. lol. didnt think this would be the thing that would make him mad enough to do it(for a bit at least). I think it's more that the handlers went "He told people to drink bleach. No more press conferences. Whatever it takes to keep him away from the cameras, do it."
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Shimrra Jamaane posted:That won’t last long I’m telling you. It definitely will not. If whoever is telling him "no" at the moment remains firm, they're getting fired and replaced with someone who doesn't mind Trump going up to say, "Mix bleach and ammonia together for a delicious cocktail!" So he'll flip back eventually, it's just a question of when. I'm going to say, on Thursday Trump is back at one of these briefings.
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