Reg gas at the local Shell this morning was $4.49 a gal and Diesel was up to $5.95 a gal. Oil is currently up over $5 a barrel today.
I'm not worried though. I can pay the extra expense with my $5,000 Trump dividend check...
(Yes, that is a sarcastic remark)
The Dems will win bigly on Nov. 3 and I also believe that they will win bigly in 2028. Why? The traitorous Republicans betrayed the folks who voted them into power.
We thought we were voting for an end to endless wars, a focus on the domestic economy to benefit the poor and middle class, a restoration of civil liberties and a massive downsizing of Fedzilla. Instead, we got endless wars, Democrats, socialists, Zionists and thugs on STEROIDS.
Had Trump and the Republicans kept their campaign promises, America would be back on the road to being great again. But they chose to knife We the People in the back, like the lying Republicans always do.
@jaccocharite I mentioned you in a few comments and tweets over the past few days and asked a question about the recent US attacks on Iran. I respect your perspective very much; I would be happy if you could respond and share your thoughts if you have the opportunity 🙏🏻
Russia-Vietnam trade turnover is growing: last year it grew by 6%, in the first six months of this year the growth rate almost doubled — Putin
‘We continue our work in all other areas, such as culture, education, security’
@jaccocharite When people are forced to quickly learn how to shoot guns to defend themselves on the street, it is a clear sign of the collapse of social security & trust, not a mature culture. I wish they would think about the roots of insecurity instead of normalizing these scenes
Iranian tankers were hit so their oil spread across the Persian Gulf—where water renews every 5 yrs, meaning yrs of pollution for people & environment. Is this a "military mistake"? Why have media & the UN stayed silent on Trump's crimes?
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The army of the United States has released footage of an attack on 3 large Iranian oil tankers in the Persian Gulf in response to attacks by the IRGC using ballistic missiles against 2 US Navy warships.
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... schools & weddings without any restrictions, killing innocent children between the ages of 4 & 16; as if the pattern of stopping attacks only makes sense for certain geographies. Given the delegation’s trip to “facilitate peace,” why do you think Trump & ...
Lavrov on Iran: In Iran, completely out of the blue, in June 2025, the United States and Israel bombed the country in the midst of negotiations. The talks were under way; they finished in the evening and agreed to meet again in the morning – and in between, they bombed them. The war lasted 12 days. Then there were the strikes on February 28 this year. Now the Americans say they are demanding that Iran open the Strait of Hormuz. The Islamic Republic of Iran says that, in return, the sanctions must be eased or lifted. And they will keep pressing for that.
But the most interesting thing is that the Strait of Hormuz was completely open until February 28. Following this aggression, Iran demonstrated that it, too, has its own national interests, national pride and traditions. The history of Persia goes back more than a thousand years.
Now, if the Strait of Hormuz is to be reopened, they are discussing a fee for passage. There was no such fee until the United States and Israel launched this reckless attack. Incidentally, we do not want a fee to be introduced either, but that is a matter for further discussions.
One of the consequences of the aggression against Iran is that the position of those in the Iranian leadership who had warned that, without nuclear weapons, Iran would be constantly pressured has been greatly strengthened. These views were marginal under Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and Ali Larijani, Secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, both of whom were killed.
Now US President Donald Trump says they want to talk to the Iranians, but there is no one there to talk to; he doesn’t know anyone. They killed everyone there. What is that supposed to mean?
https://t.co/aX9ITseBfG
Alex Krainer (@NakedHedgie) on Trump’s war against Iran: it does not matter who Americans vote for. The system prevails. Trump did not invent these policies. He inherited them. The rest of the world has now understood that the Atlanticist system cannot be reformed at the ballot box.
“And so now that Trump simply fell into line with all his predecessors, continued the policies of maintaining hegemony on the Eurasian continent, and attacked Iran, beyond it being a betrayal to his voters, I think it was a signal to the whole world that American policies cannot be changed at the ballot box. It doesn’t matter what the American people vote for. Somebody, somehow, manages to prevail over elected leaders—whether they bribe them, whether they co-opt them, whether they have kompromat on them. However it happens, they end up pursuing the exact same imperial neocolonial policies as all the other presidents did before them.
Trump is a figure that’s easy to hate. I see a lot of vitriol directed at Trump, but we have to keep in mind that he didn’t invent these policies. That is the policy of the Western world. We have to be careful to try to identify the incentives that caused those policies to be adopted and implemented.
And so I think that the rest of the world finally understood that it doesn’t matter what the American people vote for. Western powers will always go back to neocolonialist politics. And that, I think, gives a very, very strong impetus to the emerging multipolar world to move away from that even more quickly.
What we see now at the SCO summit is very explicit denunciations of this system. They seem a lot more confident and determined that they have to break the bridges with the system, that they have to start developing their own systems of trade, trade settlement systems, reserve currency systems—gold, commodities, whatever—and that they have to make certain commitments to this. You can’t hope to deal with the United States and NATO countries hoping that somehow they’ll be nice to you, and that you can just continue business as usual and sit on two chairs.
I think that Trump’s war against Iran has shown that you really have to choose sides. And I think that this is becoming increasingly clear to the nations of the Global South—to Russia, China, Belarus, Iran, Arab states and so forth—and that they are acting accordingly. We will see a much more determined effort to create alternatives: alternative trade routes, alternative payment systems, alternative clearing systems, reserve currencies, and definitely a new security architecture for the Eurasian continent. That is now definitely coming into shape.”
The war confirmed the policy. Eurasia is building the exits: routes, settlement, and a security architecture the dollar does not own.
@jaccocharite Europe is becoming more and more dangerous for those who support peace & freedom of expression. When truth is threatened, there is no place for democracy, and I think this is where the conscience of humanity must be more awake than ever
Funny how people keep repeating this in their own echo chamber.
I don't know who they are trying to kid here but Russians know better
Is Russian resolve going to change? No
Is Ukraine winning? No
Is it going to improve the reputation of US weapons? No, think Iran and Yemen
@jaccocharite A few hours ago, I mentioned you in a tweet and asked a question about the recent U.S. attacks on Iran; I would appreciate it if you could answer🙏🏻
This attack means coastal people & the environment pay for US eco-crimes! When a ship's engine can be shut down w/one shot, why target the oil cargo? Why are human & environmental consequences never a priority for Trump & his commanders?!
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VIDEO | Earlier on 6 September, US CENTCOM released footage, boasting that the Iranian tanker M/T Kylo sank in the Gulf of Oman after US forces struck it during attacks on three IRGC-linked oil tankers.
Satan influences the world through corruption, power & wealth. So don't be surprised that when the most corrupt wealthy people are in power, governments do evil things to us.
The only answer to it all is Christ.
Alexander Dugin argues that the war against Iran, NATO’s push into the Arctic, and the fight over artificial intelligence are all one contest between a dying unipolar order and an emerging multipolar world.
Read the full interview here:
https://t.co/sctVk0sVyv