Originally published at: Inside the Bizarre Feedback Loop Between DHS and MAGA Influencers - TPM – Talking Points Memo
As DHS officers flooded into Minneapolis on an early December day, Mahamed Eydarus was out with his mom, shoveling snow. In a subsequent declaration filed in a lawsuit, Eydarus would detail what unfolded over the next few minutes: An unmarked car suddenly drove up. A group of masked men wearing vests labeled “POLICE” and patches…
I’m hoping today’s space launch and mission succeed. We can then definitively settle whether Donald Trump’s depravity is visible from the moon.
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Instead of content creators, can we call them Mini Riefenstahls?
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The US pays about 15% of NATO costs, but historically has had a much larger overall military budget. NATO includes the populous Turkey, so its 32 members together represent 970 million people. The US population is about 340 million. Rubio’s latest free-riding attacks on other NATO members and threatening to take his ball and go home look odd to say the least. Quitting NATO is Putin’s wet dream, and the US seems hell-bent on giving him that. It feels like we’re living in an alternative universe.
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Those fuckwads need to find a real job. But first they need to be educated.
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This is without a doubt the most corrupt and lawless administration ever. We have had individuals in the past who have been crooks but nothing on the scale of Trump and his fellow criminals.
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Yeah home schooling ain’t cutting it.
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On a different note, Trump plans on watching the Supreme Court’s oral arguments, this is going to be great. You know he will butt in and then he will fall asleep,
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Nick and his mom are low rent Leni Riefenstahl’s creating an alternative universe for the administration, parts of DHS, and what public there is for such video.
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He woke up from his nap and bailed partway through it.
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On a different note, since there’s no current thread about it, Comrade Trumpov’s “major announcement” on the Iraq war this evening turned about to be less than nothing — just more of the same rambling, babbling, nonsensical, and self-contradictory gobbledygook about our supposed decisive victory in Iran, yet still needing more war, and it’s over but it’s not over, and the straight is closed but we can just take the oil, etc., etc., etc., blah, blah, blah.
That may have been the dumbest, least-informative “major development” of all time.
By the way, is it just me, or has droopy-faced, mush-mouthed, unsteadily-swaying, and half-dozing Trump now also added an involuntary eye-twitch to his repertoire of stroke symptoms?
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It was informative : The global order is dead, and the price of oil is baked in for months, dooming the world and US markets to higher prices on everything. May futures markets have risen more than April after the world witnessed the deranged freak show tonight. The world has one culprit to blame for it. Old Trumpty Dump. T. Rump. The ANTICHRIST. One dumb motherfucker.
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Hey, where is the thread for the fucking speech?!
That was like a 3 a.m. truthsocial rant but belted out live before the entire world. He might have broken all seven seals with that! MADNESS SMOTHERED IN DEMENTIA!
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I saved a video clip of Trump giving his speech:
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When the US got involved in the Vietnam war, there were claims that a motivating factor was oil & gas, particularly deposits beneath the South China Sea. partly as the Seven Sisters saw the potential of energy demand in Asia. Modern day, the South China Sea’s proven and probable reserves are around 22 billion barrels. With the most advanced tech and no sanctions, the life-cycle cost per barrel (exploration, drilling, equipping, infrastructure, taxes) falls from $90 to $45 a barrel. For comparison, Iran has 208 billion barrels in proven reserves alone. Despite sanctions and tech issues, the life-cycle cost of producing a barrel of Iranian oil is still only about $30 a barrel.
Now consider the cost of producing a barrel of oil from the Permian Basin (West Texas/Southeast New Mexico). The life-cycle cost for high productivity wells is $36–$44 per barrel, and $75–$180 per barrel for less productive wells. To reach breakeven US shale oil producers need a WTI price of approximately $43 per barrel for existing wells. The average WTI price when Trump came into office was around $80 in January 2025, falling to $57 a barrel at the start of 2026. Despite all Trump’s talk, low-productivity wells were struggling at the end of last year, WTI is about $106 a barrel today. War is good for some people.
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