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This is why prices are complicated. The recession fears are fueling a drop in oil prices. Cheaper oil will lower the price of nearly everything.

FWIW, checked back and this seems like it's still percolating through the system. https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/68262309/united-states-v-emmanuel-ayala/

Doesn't matter where the actual oil goes. As many have pointed out, it's a fungible resource. Even if Russia can only sell oil to China, that's less oil China will buy from someone else, so it *still* affects the global price. That's why Trump is proposing to tariff anyone who even buys...

They should tell all the employees that they need to figure out if they're useful or not. Then resign if they aren't, and if they guess wrong they'll be prosecuted. Just like they do for us with taxes.

The problem is that's easy to say. But "don't let anyone hit you" is a lot harder.

Who was it that said "There is nothing so permanent as a temporary government program" ?

My truck identifies as a low flying aircraft. Speed limits don't apply to aircraft.

Either jail them for driving without it. Or eliminate the entire system. Quit pretending.

JFK wasn't wrong. But what when that obligation doesn't comport with the "success of liberty" ? Are you arguing that we should have opened a can of whup-ass on Russia in eastern Ukraine to honor our Budapest memorandum obligations ? I thought you were of the opposite opinion there ?

Yes, and absolutely everyone saw the cold war coming from a decade away. That's just how that stuff works. It's just like partnerships with mega corporations. They aren't friends, they don't trust each other. Everyone knows the partnership lasts just as long as it benefits everyone. You...

I'm sure they murdered it for it's own safety.

We've tried that, many times. Sometimes you need to go to the sledge hammer.

They could have kept it all legal and still pocketed billions. But, I bet after decades of getting away with it they will have gotten sloppy and they will have moved from merely unethical into blatantly illegal for a lot of it. They will have forged some progress report, or lied about a...

Nothing short of indictments and convictions will do.

The communists currently in control invaded *China* in just the last century. They also invaded Vietnam Korea Tibet Burma India And Russia They're not *good* at invading their neighbors, but it's not for a lack of trying. Seriously, what ridiculous sources do you get your history from ?

And they want to raise corporate taxes so that they "pay their fair share", and they swear that will come out of profits and not be passed on to consumers. When you point out that tarrifs *are* corporate taxes, because nearly everything that get imported is imported by a corporation, suddenly...

The singular for allies is ally. And you are assuming that any countries are just "trusting" you if you are allies. Remember, we have spies in the governent if every ally we have right now, and everyone knows it, and they all have spies here too. And we interfere in their elections and they...

OP, please correct the title. There is a world of difference between Adam Baldwin and Alec Baldwin.

Since the squirrel was a youtube star the owners should sue over the lost wages....

Lol, countries are not friends. Alliances only last as long as both sides see a benefit.

Whichever is in our interest to back.

No, they just plan to buy everything. There are more ways to build an empire than just martial conquest.

Damn, I went to check the auction prices to see if they might be better. Who the hell is paying this much ? https://cmpauction.thecmp.org/detail.asp?id=9142&n=Remington-Model-700-S6528439

Let me know when they include M2s or MK19s

Both Russia and Iran have imperialist ambitions. China too. All are held in check by the presence of US power. And it would be absolutely a disaster for US interests if any of them were able to get what they want. One of Trump's greatest strengths as POTUS is that our enemies fear him. He...

All of life is a balance. You need to balance the risk of getting caught with a gun you're not allowed to have against the risk of needing a gun you left behind.

We have a long history of attempting an isolationist policy. It never ends well. Because imperialist regimes never stop. and eventually they will take something you can't ignore.

It shouldn't, but you hear all the time about government officials resigning after getting caught, and then the prosecutors just forget about the crime. Everyone from individual police officers up to governors.

Nobody should be allowed to retire their way out of an indictment.

How about Isreal ? You don't think Iran would nuke Isreal? You think we can just sit back and ignore it if *that* happens ? You need to look a few steps ahead. There are things they very well might do that will set in motion a chain of events that absolutely *will* drag us into a shit show...

You think there are no consequences to the US if Iran gets nukes ? The country who's national slogan is "death to America" gets nukes, and you don't think that could present a problem for us ? How short sighted can you be ?

Politicians like to drag out wars as long as possible by trying to keep everything "proportional". They look at war as diplomacy by other means. They look at the fighting itself as a goal by which they can gain personal power and riches. And that always turns into a shit show. See Vietnam...

What could we lose if Iran gets nukes ? Preventing that is what we gain.

There's an entire century and two world wars that prove we can't just "not my circus" our way out of the European shit show.

Can you just stay in a hotel outside of DC and leave the guns in the hotel safe while you are sightseeing ? DC is very small, doesn't seem like you should actually have to stay *in* the city just to see it. Unless you are actually staying with someone who lives in DC, that would be my plan.

Unless you're in the bottom 40%. Then you likely got a "refund" of money you never paid.

Whatever you tax you discourage. Taxing income discourages prosperity. We should only tax things we want to reduce.

The solution to that is to realize that "common use" doesn't exclude police or military either. If every cop carries them, then they are in common use, even if nobody else does.

Somewhere between that and ROR for attempted murder is the happy medium.

It's true. OfC, out here people would consider that pepper spray weak enough that it should be in the mild section of the spice aisle at the grocery store too.

Typical left wing meme. They can't post an actual quote, so they have to make one up to finish the meme.

You forgot D). All of the above

Out here they sell pepper spray and stun guns everywhere. Even harbor freight https://www.harborfreight.com/pepper-spray-57518.html

It's called "Munchausen by proxy". Used to be a crime, before it became trendy.

It was Mike Waltz's account for sure. But was he the actual human that used that account to make that chat ? I've known guys who didn't send *any* of their own emails. They would tell a secretary to send something and the secretary would compose and send it using their boss's address. It...

That tells you what account added him, not what person. Or do you think Biden was personally sending out all the tweets with his name on them ? Hell, he wasn't even signing all the laws and pardons with his signature on them. There's at least even odds that Waltz told Wong to set this up and...

Maybe it will affect their career in a positive way if they end up leaving Rochester over it.

Almost all cops carry one. That makes them common as far as I am concerned.

It is, generally. And this wasn't a failure of signal itself. It wasn't hacked or anything. So, the scandal is that this guy got added to the chat, but the media seems to be trying to make it about the administration using Signal for the conversation. The investigation should be about how he...

But, signal *was* an officially approved secure communication method. The fact that someone added this douchebag into the chat is the breach, not that the rest of them were using it.