Ever since President Trump shut down USAID:
The DNC became broke
Peru’s conservative leader won
Chile’s conservative leader won
Bolivia’s conservative leader won
Ecuador’s conservative leader won
Honduras’s conservative leader won
Colombia’s conservative leader won
The same people who shrieked incessantly about how $25/hr was absolutely necessary for menial zero skill work are now confused about why a value meal costs $15, a car costs $35K and a house costs $500K
I don’t think people have fully absorbed just how big the declines in student enrollment are going to be.
Eight states are projected to experience DOUBLE DIGIT declines by 2031.
I honestly thought this map was made up
Hundreds of supertankers, the kind that carry two million barrels each, are currently racing toward the US Gulf Coast from every direction. Atlantic, Indian Ocean, around Africa, the scenic route, the "we were heading to Saudi Arabia but NVM" route.
Iran closed the Strait of Hormuz and everyone panicked. Oil hit $126 a barrel. Gas hit $4 a gallon. Cable news did the thing where they put a red banner on screen and say "CRISIS" in a font that suggests you should be hoarding toilet paper.
And then something happened that nobody in media seems interested in reporting, for obvious reasons. The world just... switched suppliers? Like changing your internet provider except the internet provider is the entire effing global energy economy.
American oil exports are approaching record levels. Gulf Coast refineries are running at 95% capacity. Supertankers that were mid-ocean on their way to the Persian Gulf literally turned around and headed to Texas. That's not a metaphor. Ship tracking data shows them doing U-turns in the Indian Ocean.
Meanwhile China, which was getting 45% of its oil imports through Hormuz and paying basement prices for sanctioned Iranian crude, is now competing with Japan and Europe for the same expensive American barrels. Chinese manufacturers are already raising prices 20% on goods headed to the US.
So to summarize: Iran played its biggest card and the main result is that the United States became the world's emergency gas station and China's cheap energy subsidy evaporated.
This is either the most elaborate coincidence in the history of geopolitics... or someone planned the sequence Venezuela -> Iran -> profits!
I'll let you figure out which one
@Charlieleduff Isn't the main tower empty now? Why let people roam around an empty building, especially in Detroit...
The Empire State Building is full of people.
GRAPHIC WARING: Two students BEAT a girl senseless at Lucille Umbarger Middle School in Burlington, WA, after demanding to know whether she supports Trump and ICE. She told them it was none of their business. Police are involved. More today on our live show at 12pm.
New leaked Epstein documents show the FBI removed the hard drive from the prison's camera system and wiped all footage from the night Jeffrey Epstein was murdered.
NYC wants a $127 Billion budget.
The ENTIRE state of Florida has a $117 Billion budget.
NYC has 8.8 million people.
Florida has ~ 22 million people..
Think about that for a second. That is absolutely wild..