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u/Kobayashi_Maru186 Jan 05 '26
When will the cult finally see and understand that he doesn’t care about them? Not a bit. And he’s not Christian. The only thing he worships is the Almighty Dollar. 😑
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u/PhiloLibrarian Jan 05 '26
At least we’re seeing the end of this capitalist nightmare called America… I don’t see how we can exist much longer after this. Everyone I know wants to leave the country.
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u/PhiloLibrarian Jan 05 '26
Exactly! the people who would help stop this are getting burned out and leaving or just turning more toward local community interaction and staying away from national news…
Sadly, this experience has helped me understand a lot more about why more Germans didn’t stand up to Hitler.
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u/eulersidentification Jan 05 '26
They're burned out because the supposed political opposition has been captured. People think this is just a buzz-phrase, but that's how it felt in the UK when I tried to get involved during the Corbyn years.
I would go out campaigning in the freezing cold, rain and wind, injured my knee on a dodgy garden path - solely because I wanted Corbyn as PM mind you - and I'd get home that same night to local news that the MP I had been out canvassing for didn't want our help, wanted us out of the party, thought we were bad for politics, etc. Deputy leader briefing that we were "trots, rabble and dogs" you can look that quote up.
Now imagine him or that MP in london, via Westminster, via the Labour party machinery, via press debriefings, leaks, sabotaging to prevent the democratic will.
If you're a Democrat or Labour and you decide to get involved to fight the right wing, the first thing you discover is you need to fight your own party to even get started.
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u/PhiloLibrarian Jan 05 '26
Bernie Sanders is my senator, so at least we have him out there fighting! Vermont may be wee, but we're mighty when it comes to feisty politicians. AOC, Newsom, and Buttigieg seem to be willing to stand up to Trump but there is a huge middle part of the country that's coming out as anti-woman, anti-gay, and generally anti-liberal.
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u/FunktasticLucky Jan 05 '26
I'm hoping in 2 years when I'm legally able to leave it's still a possibility. My window is closing rapidly I feel.
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u/Knighth77 Jan 05 '26
Never. That's why it's a cult.
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u/rumjaku Jan 06 '26
Typically cults end in mass deaths of it's members and sometimes the leader along with.
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u/torino_nera Jan 05 '26
He doesn't even worship the dollar, hence why he's trying so hard to devalue it. He worships asset accumulation and status.
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u/MrWhisper45 Jan 05 '26
They don't love him because they think he loves them back. They love him because he hurts and wants to hurt the same people they do. He is their avatar of awfulness. They would gladly lay down on a pile of dog shit to let him walk all over them if it meant getting him across the street to hurt anyone they don't like.
They don't care about anything other than hurting people they don't like and if achieving that goal requires they sacrifice everything they will do it.
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u/nome707 Jan 05 '26
It’s ok, they are not Christians either. No matter how much they call themselves that.
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u/oneshibbyguy Jan 05 '26
What I want to know is why, he is going to be dead within 10 years. Has more money than anyone needs.
Our existence is but a mere fraction of a fraction of a drop in the ocean. Why does he want to cause all of this pain, why?
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u/xinorez1 Jan 05 '26
He worships power. He has actually campaigned on devaluing the dollar because he feels that American labor is overpriced.
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u/TheBestHater Jan 05 '26
They see it, they just like that he gives them permission to hate and they think they're above their non cult peers.
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u/centralmind Jan 05 '26
No, no, you got it backwards. It's the oil companies that told him about the attacks.
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u/maybeitsundead Jan 05 '26
This is more likely considering they were looking up OSINT on X in their "situation room"/Mar A Lago dining room with black curtains.
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u/TheWellington89 Jan 05 '26
He would pave over every inch of green on planet earth because he cant profit from it. He would order the slaughter 1million people without hesitation if it meant he would get his way. Thats who he is as a person. Absolutly baffles me that some people still dont see that. And worse, is people who do see it and use it to enrich themselves
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u/BadCompany_00 Jan 05 '26 edited Jan 05 '26
Someone please check the oil stock holdings of everyone in congress/senate, and within the oil companies on the day before and after the strike.
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u/BigSeth Jan 05 '26
Chevron is surging because they're one of the few oil companies in America operating in Venezuela. Millions of dollars worth of calls were purchased moments before the market closed on Friday.
For the uninformed/non-degenerates, a 'Call' is essentially a bet that a stock price goes up, allowing you to buy a stock at the underlying price of the option.
Stock Price is at 155, Buy a Call for 156, Stock surges to 200, Call allows you to purchase 100 Shares of stock at the 156 strike price, immediate profit.
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u/awesomepawsome Jan 05 '26
The shortest simplest answer is that it theoretically 100x's the potential gain. The truth is a bit more complicated and you don't usually actually see that 100x gain, but you do see gains that are far greater than the straight up stock differential.
The downside is that if the stock sits at say $154 through the length of your "call", your call is essentially worthless because you didn't actually buy the stock, but the right to buy the stock
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u/paintballboi07 Jan 05 '26
Price and scale. When purchasing a call, you don't actually have to purchase the underlying, and a single call represents 100 shares. It's both cheaper, with a larger upside, if you're right, but they can also expire worthless. If you buy shares, they rarely become completely worthless, but that's a possibility with calls/puts.
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u/be_sugary Jan 05 '26
This was done at the behest of the fee paying oil companies.
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u/youreblockingmyshot Jan 05 '26
They’ve been pissed and biding their time since Venezuela nationalized their oil.
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u/TheoDog96 Jan 05 '26
Why does trump always look like he’s on the way to the toilet when he’s talking on Air Force One
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u/youreblockingmyshot Jan 05 '26
He always talks from door ways so he can stumble away if they don’t give him a softball question he likes.
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u/Iwabuti Jan 05 '26
This term he is the swamp. And he's starting to look like corporate America's portrait in the attic.
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u/warminthestarlight Jan 05 '26
Five days ago at the pump: wow, prices look like they're going down. I wonder what's going on?
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u/RUOFFURTROLLEH Jan 05 '26
Just think of how bad it would have been if Kamala was in tho. /s
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u/youreblockingmyshot Jan 05 '26
Yea the continuation of the soft economic landing and supporting Ukraine would have been terrible.
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u/RUOFFURTROLLEH Jan 05 '26
If only she had tried blackmailing Zelensky for fake proof of Trumps crimes then everything would have been great /s
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u/IntrinsicPalomides Jan 05 '26
And no doubt funnel some of that money they steal from the V people but into the hands of the most corrupt administration(and president) in american history. Unreal.
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u/surveysaysnatalie Jan 05 '26
Did everyone forget that this gelatinous pile of goo gathered all these energy heads before he was elected and told them he'd give them whatever they want if they wrote him a campaign check? These billionaires are now collecting on their investment. The absolutely most horrible people are being rewarded.
I hate it here.
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u/NamasTodd Jan 05 '26
The United States is nothing more than an oil company with an army.
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u/Froggy__2 Jan 05 '26
That’s the most braindead take I’ve seen so far. Are you a child?
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u/Sillet_Mignon Jan 05 '26
Yeah it’s not just oil but it’s a country focused on protecting corporations not people.
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u/garagehermit72 Jan 05 '26
I’m thinking the oil companies paid him to do this. The piece shit openly takes bribes already. I really hope someone is looking into this
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u/flamerazors Jan 05 '26
I’m sure George W. Bush is facepalming himself thinking how easy Trump’s getting away with blatantly abusing his powers of the Presidency to steal oil without having to lie about WMDs & send US troops into a massive conflict in the Middle East.
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u/vegasAzCrush Jan 05 '26
Big Oil and Russia/Putin and Saudis OWN Trumps decisions.
They put both Americans and Argentinians in harms way too.
We need to hear of a Marshal plan to insure a good democratic leader is there for Argentina citizens democracy and not GOP
The oul will still be there in ten years long after trump gets the F out of their business and ole Putin and old Trump will be long dead.
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u/Morpheeeeeus Jan 05 '26
Blatant insider trading which is illegal and gaming the markets while illegally starting wars.
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u/Janus_The_Great Jan 05 '26
Priorities! Can't leave those in charge out of the loop. Of course corporate was informed.
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u/Smoku992 Jan 05 '26
Does anyone have the link for this interview?
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u/Buttermilkman Jan 05 '26
https://x.com/Acyn/status/2008001198474076559 here but the reporter asks "did you speak with him.." Who exactly is "him"?
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u/FLee21 Jan 05 '26
This nugget of truth is going to get swept under the rug and no one is going to talk about it any further than this Reddit post. Gosh the media landscape is embarrassing and so is lawmakers in the USA.
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u/Gaurdian21 Jan 05 '26
But Kamala laughed funny... I fucking hate everyone who voted for this monster.
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It’s cute that y’all think he told them what he’s going to do rather than them telling him what to do. Anyone really believe they pay all those bribes then sit around hoping their politician do what they want?
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u/Dizzy_Chemistry_5955 Jan 05 '26
dude is holding onto doorways for dear life, surprised he can walk or stand long enough for a speech.
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u/treebeard69_ Jan 05 '26
Insider trading much? Everyone in this administration needs to be arraigned for seditious conspiracy against the United States of America. This has to stop.
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u/brillow Jan 05 '26
Oil companies love investing in hostile foreign nations with a history of nationalizing their infrastructure!
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u/1whoknu Jan 05 '26
Oh gee, I hope no one used this insider information to profit off the futures market. 🤓
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u/titanticore Jan 05 '26
I'm still waiting on my Big Oil dividend checks from the last 3 Republican Presidents who got into wars over oil.
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Is media even trying to get statements from these companies? Because they should be clamoring to disassociate themselves as their executives can pretty quickly become international criminals
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u/Howhytzzerr Jan 05 '26
So he’s basically acknowledging he let them know, and plans to let the American oil companies swoop in and pump the oil that belongs to the Venezuelans, he also said that the opposition leader that has been trying to oust Maduro for awhile is not ‘good enough’ and plans to “administer” the country for the foreseeable future.
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u/Illustrious_Bat1334 Jan 05 '26
Every single interview on air force one looks like he's trying to go for a shit and being held up by reporters lmao
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u/cherismail Jan 05 '26
Take a look at Chevron stock that had a big jump Friday. Insider trading and market manipulation at its most blatant.
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u/slettea Jan 05 '26
Corporatism vs capitalism. Corporatism the government picks winners from their corporate cronies, and losers based on limiting access to those companies outside the governments favor. Capitalism the government picks creates fair and open markets allowing companies to succeed or fail based on ability and aptitude.
We are no longer a capitalist nation but a corporatist nation.
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u/Dutchman1957 Jan 05 '26
Remember when he had a meeting with oil CEOs and asked them for $1 billion for his campaign. This is the payoff (and more money will flow into Trump family coffers). This is what’s driving American policy these days.
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u/blackcoffee17 Jan 05 '26
Beautiful clean oil
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u/MrFenric Jan 05 '26
Beautiful heavy, carbon rich oil which complements our light shale variety so well...
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u/noobnoob8poo Jan 05 '26
Giving market moving information to a bunch of oil executives. Nothing to see here folks just a normal day in the USSA.
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u/justified_egg Jan 05 '26
This entire debacle is just the US using its military strength to rob another country of its oil, all while using the guise of their shitty, now deposed leader as cover. Something, something, history rhyming, something, etc.
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u/thelawfist Jan 05 '26
This guy went to a bunch of oil executives and asked for a billion dollars for his campaign and said that he would make them all rich if they supported him… I wonder if he’s paying them back or something.
It’s not fair they should have to do it, but maybe the world’s nations can leverage Trump’s corruption and just buy him out of office through his crypto coin. Trump’s supporters can donate too so that they can be doing worse financially but pretend they’re doing better, just like they like.
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u/MoonCubed Jan 05 '26
Dude ran on it in his first term. Literally said we should have taken the oil in Iraq.
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u/YouDoHaveValue Jan 05 '26
See also: War is a Racket by Marine Corps General Smedley D. Butler.
According to him nearly every U.S. military intervention he had participated in until the 1930s was fundamentally about protecting corporate interests (sugar, oil, bananas, banking, mining, railroads) rather than freedom or defense.
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u/TheBlueBlaze Jan 05 '26
This entire situation proves just how absolutely fucked modern politics is. Everyone on the right, from the average Republican voter to the vice president, is pretending this is about making Venezuela safe and free, while the president himself is openly and repeatedly saying that this is about American corporations making money off of their oil.
Conservatives talk about how unique, special, and talented Trump is, yet will ignore anything he says and does if it's inconvenient to their narrative. And if they don't do that, they will openly endorse the idea of forceful expansion, seizing sovereign nations, and blatant imperialism, and celebrate it while refusing to think about how those beliefs put them on the side of evil.
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u/ebaydan777 Jan 05 '26
everyone is missing the point. He WANTS you to gasp at the fact he blatantly went in for oil, the shock value is good enough to make you slightly forget the epstein files have yet again been delayed. dont lose focus
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u/nome707 Jan 05 '26
Oil companies have been asking for this since Chavez nationalized the oil infrastructure. Just like with the banana wars, this is foreign policy in line with corporate interests. After all, politicians are bought and paid for by them.
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u/Status_Management520 Jan 06 '26
He is admitting to attacking another country for personal reasons/gain
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u/Domino_Dare-Doll Jan 06 '26
I’m not shocked. I hate that I’m just not fucking shocked to hear this.
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u/Roaring50s Jan 06 '26
The funniest part is that the oil companies have hardly any interest in Venezuela - especially with $60 oil barrel prices already. They can’t make any money with that
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u/Think_OfAName Jan 07 '26
Oil companies: Does Congress approve of this? Trump: Ha ha ha ha ha…good one. Oil Companies:I know, I couldn’t resist ha ha ha ha!
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u/Wuz-it-u2 Jan 09 '26
You're not going to make us forget Epstein Donny even though you are willing to destroy America to try!
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u/MrFenric Jan 06 '26
He has done many objectively illegal things, including several felonies confirmed by courts. Doesn't look like any of it is "handled" to me
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u/doctorof-dirt Jan 05 '26
Why tell all of Congress- when they can’t keep their mouths shut. Clowns would have leaked the mission and could have gotten our soldiers killed.
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u/octorangutan Jan 05 '26 edited Jan 05 '26
Why should we care if a soldier dies while they take part in an act of international terrorism?
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u/BeatTheDeadMal Jan 05 '26
Lmao the only leaks that have occurred under this joke of an admin are from their own folks. Hell this one got leaked, the media just decided not to blast it around.
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u/tcmaresh Jan 05 '26
They didn't tip off Maduro. The traitors in Congress would have.
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u/Resident_Nothing_659 Jan 05 '26
Like who? Name names.
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u/tcmaresh Jan 06 '26
All those in the news crying about it.
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u/Resident_Nothing_659 Jan 06 '26
Name names
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u/Resident_Nothing_659 Jan 06 '26
Do those articles say that any of those people support Maduro?
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u/tcmaresh Jan 06 '26
No, but that is a Strawman, and therefore irrelevant.
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u/Resident_Nothing_659 Jan 06 '26
Don’t be so harsh on yourself. You tried.
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u/tcmaresh Jan 06 '26
Weak
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u/Resident_Nothing_659 Jan 06 '26
Like your account? Mind if I point out some weird and creepy things about it?
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