I feel helpless sometimes. I feel like Democrats have acquiesed. I would have walked out Greene was removed. That would have thrown Trump off. Democrats need to throw him off as often as possible. We need to yell loud and often.
Americans have no domestic supply of HEAVY crude oil. Heavy crude oil is a crucial manufacturing ingredient for a number of important products including:
-asphalt
-jet fuel
-shipping fuel
-plastics
-solvents
Best of all the refineries that would be shit out of luck are in the Gulf and midwest states--red states.
What pray tell is the source of this crucial heavy crude oil? 70% of the American supply comes from Canada, 10% comes from Canada. The rest comes from Saudi Arabia & Brazil which have more distant supply lines (i.e. I'm not even sure it would be possible to ship all the heavy crude oil that the U.S. requires those distances, or at least not in the near future).
Try running a modern economy without a domestic source of the above-noted final products.
Strategic oil reserve you say? Nope, the entire U.S. strategic oil reserve (i.e. including ALL TYPES of crude oil 718 million barrels which sounds like a lot until you learn that the U.S. uses 7.39 BILLION barrels of crude oil per year--meaning that the entire strategic reserve would be depleted in less than 2 months--though in reality 718 barrels of oil would not run out for 79 days because there are daily withdrawal limits (which is no comfort to U.S. manufacturing because that just means that they'd be running under half-capacity for 79 days).
However, in reality the Strategic Oil reserve has only 1/2 of it's reserve in heavy crude--meaning Canada & Mexico could cripple those industries in under a month.
The effort and the cost to maintain a small flock works out to some really expensive eggs. Also, you will never walk barefoot in your yard again (which is OK, because the grass is pretty much gone) because it’s a sea of chicken poop, and forget sitting on the lawn furniture.
It would be interesting to hear what Bulwark readers here can do collectively as a group to “counter” traitor trump. This monk advises all “listeners” to boycott, whenever possible, facebook, amazon…The monk understands that some activities” are available at only these sites. Still, it can be done? Definitely boycott tesla, which Europeans have already started doing. Donate to ACLU, because it is a legal group fighting the traitor actions in court. Donate to groups supporting Ukraine.
Join Bulwark, if one can afford it.
In an effort to save money for those who need it more than this monk, this poor monk has lost “excess” weight, to the benefit of his health: back to high school weight many, many decades ago.🙂
It seems dems seem so quiet. No plans for action, only requests for more money for “campaign donations”! Instead, this monk will help the Ukrainian people as much as he can. He will help the immigrants, because we are all immigrants. American is “inside” us, imvho.
It was discussed--somewhere, I think in the Bulwark--what it would take to get people in the streets here. I hope Canada does every single thing it is thinking about. If working people's checkbooks are hurt enough, that could be the tipping point. Congress especially needs a visceral check as far as how upset people are.
Three cheers for Canada! Finally we have someone (a whole nation, actually) standing up to the bully who is the American president. One must chuckle when people talk about Trump's unorthodox but effective "negotiating skills." His actions against Canada are purely emotional reactions. He is not capable of careful analysis to develop a rational strategy for anything. Calling him "unpredictable" is being polite. He is nuts. Unfortunately for the world he is surrounded by a combination of bootlickers and rasputins with no effective guardrails.
Markwayne Mullin is an idiot. Trump got a significant number of votes (beyond the MAGA cult) from people who were upset about inflation. Does Markwayne think they are “willing to do what it takes” to support the President’s policies if those policies are gratuitously inflationary. I don’t think so. Not everyone is in the cult, Markwayne.
Trump is to blame for this chaos. Republicans are to blame for this chaos, but those who voted for the lying, bullying, incompetent man are the most to blame. You knew who he is, and you still voted for him. Now we all suffer.
Are Republican politicians so sure the entire world is taking advantage of us that they are happy to cut the US off from the rest of the world? I do get that Trump's distain for shithole countries makes him less than eager to support our soft programs into international diplomacy, but cutting veterans benefits, Social Security personnel, Air Trafffic Controllers, Atomic Agency personnel, National Park personnel etc doesn't seem to apply. I don't think any of these people they are firing are redundant.
Trump's foreign policy is just an extension of his belief that if he's not the undisputed winner who dominates all others, it's because he's being cheated.
JustDumb still is just that. It is time for America to let their elected officials know what they think the president as well. There is a postcard writing campaign underway for March 15, it is called #theIdesoftrump on facebook. The point is to send postcards to the White House, mailing them on March 15, the page list some suggestions for messages and the address of the WH. Mine will say "You betrayed America and the Constitution", Get out of our house. I am also sending post cards to each of my state congressmen and senators expressing my support for Ukraine, and one to Mike Johnson telling him he should resign. Congress can stop t***p they just need to be motivated to do so. There is probably 1.5 million of them whose electricity comes from Canada just might be motivated.
I hope that Canada makes us feel the maximum pain they are capable of inflicting. Trump voters need to get it hard and good. I will gladly suffer what I must to see them suffer what they did not expect.
I feel helpless sometimes. I feel like Democrats have acquiesed. I would have walked out Greene was removed. That would have thrown Trump off. Democrats need to throw him off as often as possible. We need to yell loud and often.
RE: Canadian Retaliation
The example of crude oil is particularly good.
Americans have no domestic supply of HEAVY crude oil. Heavy crude oil is a crucial manufacturing ingredient for a number of important products including:
-asphalt
-jet fuel
-shipping fuel
-plastics
-solvents
Best of all the refineries that would be shit out of luck are in the Gulf and midwest states--red states.
What pray tell is the source of this crucial heavy crude oil? 70% of the American supply comes from Canada, 10% comes from Canada. The rest comes from Saudi Arabia & Brazil which have more distant supply lines (i.e. I'm not even sure it would be possible to ship all the heavy crude oil that the U.S. requires those distances, or at least not in the near future).
Try running a modern economy without a domestic source of the above-noted final products.
Strategic oil reserve you say? Nope, the entire U.S. strategic oil reserve (i.e. including ALL TYPES of crude oil 718 million barrels which sounds like a lot until you learn that the U.S. uses 7.39 BILLION barrels of crude oil per year--meaning that the entire strategic reserve would be depleted in less than 2 months--though in reality 718 barrels of oil would not run out for 79 days because there are daily withdrawal limits (which is no comfort to U.S. manufacturing because that just means that they'd be running under half-capacity for 79 days).
However, in reality the Strategic Oil reserve has only 1/2 of it's reserve in heavy crude--meaning Canada & Mexico could cripple those industries in under a month.
I helped raise backyard chickens a few years ago.
The effort and the cost to maintain a small flock works out to some really expensive eggs. Also, you will never walk barefoot in your yard again (which is OK, because the grass is pretty much gone) because it’s a sea of chicken poop, and forget sitting on the lawn furniture.
Also, hawks.
Good times.
And the HOA specifically outlaws it. And, the backyard birds are worried about bird flu!
Isn’t the Canadian head of state King Charles?
How does that figure into the whole 51st state thing exactly?
It would be interesting to hear what Bulwark readers here can do collectively as a group to “counter” traitor trump. This monk advises all “listeners” to boycott, whenever possible, facebook, amazon…The monk understands that some activities” are available at only these sites. Still, it can be done? Definitely boycott tesla, which Europeans have already started doing. Donate to ACLU, because it is a legal group fighting the traitor actions in court. Donate to groups supporting Ukraine.
Join Bulwark, if one can afford it.
In an effort to save money for those who need it more than this monk, this poor monk has lost “excess” weight, to the benefit of his health: back to high school weight many, many decades ago.🙂
It seems dems seem so quiet. No plans for action, only requests for more money for “campaign donations”! Instead, this monk will help the Ukrainian people as much as he can. He will help the immigrants, because we are all immigrants. American is “inside” us, imvho.
Peace to all humans. 🙏
Can the president be impeached?
Not with a servile Republican Congress.
It was discussed--somewhere, I think in the Bulwark--what it would take to get people in the streets here. I hope Canada does every single thing it is thinking about. If working people's checkbooks are hurt enough, that could be the tipping point. Congress especially needs a visceral check as far as how upset people are.
Is it hopeless to think there might be 4 Republicans in the US senate who might get fed up enough to cross the aisle?
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Three cheers for Canada! Finally we have someone (a whole nation, actually) standing up to the bully who is the American president. One must chuckle when people talk about Trump's unorthodox but effective "negotiating skills." His actions against Canada are purely emotional reactions. He is not capable of careful analysis to develop a rational strategy for anything. Calling him "unpredictable" is being polite. He is nuts. Unfortunately for the world he is surrounded by a combination of bootlickers and rasputins with no effective guardrails.
Someone please explain how laying off 50% of the federal workforce makes it more efficient.
It’s just a fundraiser for his billionaire tax cuts.
Markwayne Mullin is an idiot. Trump got a significant number of votes (beyond the MAGA cult) from people who were upset about inflation. Does Markwayne think they are “willing to do what it takes” to support the President’s policies if those policies are gratuitously inflationary. I don’t think so. Not everyone is in the cult, Markwayne.
I hope you're right. Problem is the cult has the angry true believer passion.
Trump is to blame for this chaos. Republicans are to blame for this chaos, but those who voted for the lying, bullying, incompetent man are the most to blame. You knew who he is, and you still voted for him. Now we all suffer.
Are Republican politicians so sure the entire world is taking advantage of us that they are happy to cut the US off from the rest of the world? I do get that Trump's distain for shithole countries makes him less than eager to support our soft programs into international diplomacy, but cutting veterans benefits, Social Security personnel, Air Trafffic Controllers, Atomic Agency personnel, National Park personnel etc doesn't seem to apply. I don't think any of these people they are firing are redundant.
Trump's foreign policy is just an extension of his belief that if he's not the undisputed winner who dominates all others, it's because he's being cheated.
JustDumb still is just that. It is time for America to let their elected officials know what they think the president as well. There is a postcard writing campaign underway for March 15, it is called #theIdesoftrump on facebook. The point is to send postcards to the White House, mailing them on March 15, the page list some suggestions for messages and the address of the WH. Mine will say "You betrayed America and the Constitution", Get out of our house. I am also sending post cards to each of my state congressmen and senators expressing my support for Ukraine, and one to Mike Johnson telling him he should resign. Congress can stop t***p they just need to be motivated to do so. There is probably 1.5 million of them whose electricity comes from Canada just might be motivated.
I hope that Canada makes us feel the maximum pain they are capable of inflicting. Trump voters need to get it hard and good. I will gladly suffer what I must to see them suffer what they did not expect.