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Grenell is a homosexual lol.

I doubt he becomes VP.
It's like the joke that Bootyboy leading the Democratic ticket in 24. It would be a three-way race between Latinos, Blacks, and Asians to come in first out of the minorities Democrats do well with.

It will fracture their numbers with minorities that much, but Blacks will still probably come out on top handily.

If Trump wanted to prove everyone wrong and didn't give two shits about muh niggers, he'd pick Grenell and let our mostly inherent homophobia take care of the rest.
 
I am cross-posting this from the Supply Chain Thread for you gossip mongers.

The Players
The policy, strategy, and plans division of BlackRock is the BlackRock Investment Institute.

The BlackRock Investment Institute (BII) leverages the firm's expertise and generates proprietary research to provide insights on the global economy, markets, geopolitics and long-term asset allocation – all to help our clients and portfolio managers navigate financial markets.

And:

  • The Chairman of the BlackRock Investment Institute is Tom Donilon, President Obama’s former National Security Advisor.
  • Tom Donilon’s brother, Mike Donilon is a Senior Advisor to Joe Biden.
  • Tom Donilon’s wife, Catherine Russell, is the director of the White House Presidential Personnel Office.
  • Tom Donilon’s daughter, Sarah Donilon, graduated from college in 2019 and now works on the White House National Security Council.

What exactly is BlackRock up to?

So: US urea imports are falling, US DEF imports are falling. And US domestic manufacture of DEF is likewise falling and may very quickly turn critical. But what about consumer sales? How will that be affected? Let's connect some dots. Here is dot one, Flying J and the Union Pacific railroad:

Flying J sells 30 percent of ALL the DEF consumed in the United States.

According to Ken Cameron’s excellent article, Flying J gets seventy percent of its DEF via Union Pacific Railroad. Due to distribution points controlled by Union Pacific, Flying J cannot go to another supplier. Union Pacific is in control. In April, Union Pacific told Flying J to reduce its shipments of DEF by 50 percent, or else they would be embargoed, which would effectively bankrupt Flying J.

If this ultimatum is enforced, Union Pacific’s restrictions on Flying J will cause shortages, since this would cut the national supply of DEF by 15 percent. In his testimony, Mr. Konar explained that a single rail car provides 3000 trucks worth of DEF fills (2.7 gal DEF/ per 100 gal of diesel). Every missed rail car will reduce trucking potential by 5 million miles!


Salient questions:
This whole situation is very odd, to wit:


  • Why would Union Pacific demand Flying J to reduce its shipments of DEF by 50 percent or face embargo? Doesn't U.P. make money hauling DEF for Flying J?
  • What is Union Pacific's business upside of this demand?
  • As well, did U.P. consult with CF Industries or DEF makers before issuing the edict to F.J.? If F.J. cancels 50 percent of its DEF orders, would that not affect CF and DEF makers?
  • For that matter, why did Union Pacific issue the edict to Flying J at all, when FJ is just the consumer, not the shipper?

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There's a rumor where Trump was going to announce his candidacy for 2024 on the Fourth of July. I thought that was a mistake because it will make the midterms more about him and may change turnout to favor Democrats.

Now, with seeing what Republicans run on without Trump being a tard-wrangler, let him announce early, especially with that amnesty bill that fuck from Texas wants on the table now. Change the dynamic to where they piss themselves in fear over Trump being on the ballot so they actually act like their asses are dead in the water.

These people are absolutely hopeless without Trump and they love to lose. They need to be handheld to the November finishline or else they will dive headfirst into oncoming traffic like the fuckups they are.
 
I am cross-posting this from the Supply Chain Thread for you gossip mongers.

The Players


What exactly is BlackRock up to?




Salient questions:


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Some other interesting tidbits with BlackRock I ran across researching media funding. BlackRock has 5% ownership for every major news channel, and a dozen large newspapers. Them embedding themselves into positions in politics should shock me, but doesnt.

Amazon is evil, google is evil, but blackrock takes the cake.
 
In case there's any doubt that Biden is a pant's shitting dementia patient I give you this


This was Reagan's final interview prior to leaving the White House in 1989.

At this stage he'd already been diagnosed with Alzheimer's and his memory and cognition had been effected.

Look at how articulate he is. How able he is to speak off the cuff. How he can recall anecdotes from his past and remember names and dates effortlessly.

This is someone who had early stage dementia.

Now compare Reagan in 1989 to Biden in 2022. Does anyone think Biden could give an interview like this?

Face it the leader of the free world is not just demented he's horribly demented. While it's in some respects hilarious that the American President is a drooling retard it's also frightening.
 
Econ-Kiwis: if implemented, would this be yet another Brandon administration fuck-up, or would this be a legitimate source of relief?
I can't remember where overseas they did this recently but supposedly vendors/manufacturers made up for the difference to increase profit. It is an empty gesture to show "look I'm trying stuff".

The oil reserve influx saved us 10 cents for a week, this will save us 30 cents for a week. It's a supply issue, bandaids don't fix the issue of terminating 1/3 of our domestic production 18 months ago, and kneecapping the rest of the world with the inability to get Russian oil.

ETA: the 30 cents and week timeline is a guess. It will just increase demand that exceeds supply, and oil companies are for profit, etc etc etc.
 
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Econ-Kiwis: if implemented, would this be yet another Brandon administration fuck-up, or would this be a legitimate source of relief?

In the larger sense this has little downside because these assholes are already printing money, and suspending the gas tax would be a better way to use, say, 50 billion instead of giving it to Ukraine for weapons to fall off the back of a truck. In reality the local gas station will try and add 9 of the 18 cents for local gouging.


This gun thing really fucked up the RINOs who were trying to claw back power, and not just in congress but on social media. It could be a worthless bill but the fact that they caved and then immediately started talking about immigration (amnesty) makes people realize "no fucking wonder I voted for Trump, I'm going to do it again." Ben Domenech is trying to pick fights with the MAGA people and thinking Cornyn will get reelected and even be the next GOP senate leader, Erick Erickson is ignoring the gun bill trying to dunk on Trump for the GA runoff which means establishment GA GOP to sit and do nothing, Ben Shapiro and his ilk are saying nothing because this is too serious compared to pride month low hanging fruit, beanie man fence sitter Tim Pool is showing more spine in gearing up to remove Caputo from WV senate in '26.
 
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