the good thing about our long time Maga posters is their unbreakable integrity. We have a handful of tenured posters that have lambasted Biden for causing inflation coming out of Covid when 90% of it was simply supply and demand market forces.
We can expect these high integrity people to stay consistent and tell us Trump is single handedly responsible for Oil and inflation moving through our economy. And they will be equally outraged about it.
I'm not saying that it's not hard. Of course it's hard. But we've known the importance of that straight and the challenge of keeping it open for decades. And we've been spending over a billion dollars a day on our military for a few decades, too (now roughly 3B/day).
And to be clear, I'm not saying - and we're certainly not limited to - SHIPS keeping those straights open. It's whatever it takes. Smaller surface stuff (manned or unmanned), improved large surface defense capabilities, air (ditto), sub-surface, EW, etc., etc.
Has the Navy and DoD come close to properly prioritizing and funding that challenge? Or do we much prefer cool Tomahawks and B-2's and F-22s?
Maybe Trump doesn't have a problem with high Oil prices. We know that Putin doesn't. And we know that Oil Companies are enjoying the spike at the moment with domestic oil.
trump used the news overload to quietly lift sanctions on russian oil. Because of course he did.
....oh, and we have a handful of REALLY wealthy and REALLY self-interested allies in the Gulf who could have helped with funding and/or forces.
But does Congress or the Navy (or US industry) care much about it? Not really. Building Burkes, Tomahawks, F-35s, and the occasional carrier has been just fine.
Every country should be self-interested. You should prioritize your country over others.
sometimes...and stay with me on this...a country can't be selfish all the time. A country does a favor for a friendly nation.
So later the friendly nation will help back. Or just to keep the world peaceful and avoid future expensive conflicts.
magas don't understand any of that. Just take, take, take.
Since receiving presidential pardons, dozens of former Capitol rioters have gotten into more legal trouble. In Florida, Andrew Paul Johnson was sentenced to life in prison for child sex abuse.
Every country should be self-interested. You should prioritize your country over others.
sometimes...and stay with me on this...a country can't be selfish all the time. A country does a favor for a friendly nation.
So later the friendly nation will help back. Or just to keep the world peaceful and avoid future expensive conflicts.
magas don't understand any of that. Just take, take, take.
I was more focused on the utter lack of pertinence to the comments that I made, i.e., that wealthy Gulf nations have the money and INTEREST to help support keeping the straights open.
And Sally replies reminding me that countries should prioritize their interests.
"Stocks fell Friday, adding to their weekly declines, as oil prices spiked and traders reacted to an unexpected drop in new U.S. jobs data. The Dow Jones Industrial Average lost 815 points, or 1.7%. The S&P 500 and Nasdaq Composite were down 1.6% and 1.4%, respectively. Nonfarm payrolls fell by 92,000 in February, a sharp contrast from the downwardly revised January gain of 126,000 and far below the growth of 50,000 that economists polled by Dow Jones expected for the month. The unemployment rate also rose to 4.4% from 4.3%. West Texas Intermediate futures broke above $89 per barrel. International Brent crude traded above $91 per barrel as investors weighed the impact of the U.S.-Iran war on global energy supply. Oil prices hit their highs of the day after President Donald Trump said in a Truth Social post that there won’t be a deal to end the U.S.-Iran war without an “unconditional surrender” from the Middle Eastern country."
"Stocks fell Friday, adding to their weekly declines, as oil prices spiked and traders reacted to an unexpected drop in new U.S. jobs data. The Dow Jones Industrial Average lost 815 points, or 1.7%. The S&P 500 and Nasdaq Composite were down 1.6% and 1.4%, respectively. Nonfarm payrolls fell by 92,000 in February, a sharp contrast from the downwardly revised January gain of 126,000 and far below the growth of 50,000 that economists polled by Dow Jones expected for the month. The unemployment rate also rose to 4.4% from 4.3%. West Texas Intermediate futures broke above $89 per barrel. International Brent crude traded above $91 per barrel as investors weighed the impact of the U.S.-Iran war on global energy supply. Oil prices hit their highs of the day after President Donald Trump said in a Truth Social post that there won’t be a deal to end the U.S.-Iran war without an “unconditional surrender” from the Middle Eastern country."
Piggie has a flawless record of presiding over degrading economies
Every country should be self-interested. You should prioritize your country over others.
sometimes...and stay with me on this...a country can't be selfish all the time. A country does a favor for a friendly nation.
So later the friendly nation will help back. Or just to keep the world peaceful and avoid future expensive conflicts.
magas don't understand any of that. Just take, take, take.
Exactly. That's why we should build great relations with powerful countries – that can offer things to us (and we also will be able to offer things to them: a true win-win). Biden had terrible relations with Saudi Arabia and that greatly harmed America.
Every country should be self-interested. You should prioritize your country over others.
sometimes...and stay with me on this...a country can't be selfish all the time. A country does a favor for a friendly nation.
So later the friendly nation will help back. Or just to keep the world peaceful and avoid future expensive conflicts.
magas don't understand any of that. Just take, take, take.
Got that right, and we just started. Really not much time for these arguments, busy taking out the most rogue regime of assassins since the Germans, and we are about to cut them loose as well.
People that pay attention realize what is happening, and the fact that Trumps first meeting was with these Germans. Those blinded by Trump hate need to be saved and we will save you. Just breath and stay diligent. Chin up. Eyes open. If you’re nervous, avoid crowds and public transportation.
Get your pistol loaded, carry it at all times legally allowed to do so. Florida it’s on the hip.
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There will be no deal with Iran except UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER! After that, and the selection of a GREAT & ACCEPTABLE Leader(s), we, and many of our wonderful and very brave allies and partners, will work tirelessly to bring Iran back from the brink of destruction, making it economically bigger, better, and stronger than ever before. IRAN WILL HAVE A GREAT FUTURE. “MAKE IRAN GREAT AGAIN (MIGA!).” Thank you for your attention to this matter! President DONALD J. TRUMP
Eric Trump Invests in ‘Low Cost Per Kill’ Drone Company The president’s son has joined a deal to take Israeli company Xtend public
Eric Trump is pouring money into a sector that is a growing focus of the Pentagon his father oversees: drones.
The president’s son is investing in the Israeli drone maker Xtend as part of a $1.5 billion deal to take the company public through a merger with a small Florida construction company.
Battle-tested during Israeli operations in Gaza in recent years, Xtend markets some of its drones as “low cost per kill” munitions that align with U.S. defense directives to help wage modern warfare. The company, which opened a facility in Florida, said it has already secured a multimillion-dollar Pentagon contract and is part of a continuing Defense Department competition for new suppliers.
By combining with JFB Construction , “We are acquiring the resources we need to scale our manufacturing capabilities in the U.S. and gaining access to the U.S. public markets,” Xtend Chief Executive Aviv Shapira said.
Trump is a strategic investor in the deal, which included a private placement. So is Unusual Machines, a separate drone company in which Donald Trump Jr. is an investor and adviser.
The Pig King was so mad about losing the tariff decision that he decided to just thrash about like a wounded rat and break as much stuff as he could.
This is why we say 'No Kings' Do you, magas? Or do you like a king?
Axios:
President Trump seethed when the Supreme Court stripped away his unilateral tariff authority, the first real check on his presidency.
Then he set out to impose his will on every remaining vector of American power — smashing norms and shrugging off Congress in a historic, 14-day show of executive force, Axios' Jim VandeHei and Mike Allen write in a "Behind the Curtain" column.
Why it matters: Over the past two weeks, Trump launched a massive Middle East war, blacklisted the hottest AI company on the planet, ordered new global tariffs, and presided over the biggest media merger in two decades.
He did it all unilaterally — without passing a single law, and without pretending he needed to.
Here's Donald Trump's record as a "job creator." Because he's a businessman, you know. Not a career politician like Joe Biden. I will list all the months since January 2021, which is when Joe Biden took office, in which the US economy had negative job growth -
June 2025
August 2025
October 2025
December 2025
January 2026
February 2026
Thus, Biden had positive job growth in 48 months out of 48 months, while Trump has had positive job growth in 7 out of 13 months.
And you know what? Not a single Trump supporter will change his (or her) mind based on that evidence. None. Zero. All will keep making that same argument.
Peter Baker @peterbakernyt In the 13 months since Trump took office, the economy has created a net total of 198,000 jobs compared with 1.4 million created in the last 13 months of the Biden administration.
Markwayne Mullin, Trump's new pick to lead DHS, praised the Capitol cop who shot and killed Ashli Babbitt on Jan. 6th and portrayed him as the real victim. "I actually gave him a hug, and I said, 'Sir, you did what you had to do,'" Mullin told C-SPAN in July 2021.
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