The Trump administration has started to panic about the spiking price of oil.
While senior Trump aides had anticipated some brief surge in oil prices in the first days of the war with Iran, the size and sustainability of the market reaction caught them off guard, people familiar with the internal discussions told CNN.
Now, as oil prices hover near $100 a barrel just over a week into the war and US gas prices are moving sharply higher, it’s prompted a belated rush to try to reassure investors and seek ways to tamp down the impact. But the administration is confronting the limits of its power — and the reality that Donald Trump’s decision to wage war abroad threatens to wipe out some of his key economic accomplishments at home.
Yep. I try not to do that. Discussion is good when done in good faith. It’s too bad the disinformation age also has AI agents and censorship. Man. It’s just wild. The censorship. We educated ourselves and now we have the next generation growing up in slop but not knowing their in slop. Or worse, knowing but having know way to escape it as all methods of escape are cut off. So many sides of digital enlightenment being attacked. I don’t know if we’ll escape it. Information has become entertainment. Activism is just performance.
People aren’t mad enough.
I hope you’re right though. I hope we find a way. Likely the US is fucked but that doesn’t mean humanity is fucked. Action still has inpact. It’s hard to remember that, but it does.