Until somewhat recently it was most commonly not about oil. Even in trump 1, were he was already quite transactional, he was a lot more politics in his forpol. Now he is just monomaniacally hunting expensive sounding resources.

Is there anybody actually saying that, and did I just block them already? Trump can't shut up about Venezuela's oil.

At 10 over 75? Non-zero chance his 'trial' is a note read aloud next to a burn pit.

You know the joke that in some extreme circumstances you 'stop being biology and start being physics'?

There is a point where your politics stop being law and start being history. It is not a good place to be.

And I mean, he grassrootesd his party from nonexistent to 45% in less than two years, those vibes are *immaculate*, I just have no idea regarding what the actual policy towards anything will be should he win

He will probably lose the elections next year to a guy who left his party like 2 years ago, and is running on a mix of tepid liberalism, tax cuts, spending hikes and vibes.

Well, they are dedicated, tireless wankers, so it's reasonable that the word was reused later for similar groups.

i think the entire notion of all of this being priced in -- which is absolutely correct -- is really at a "fire and brimstone" level of immorality

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The simple truth is that children in the poorest places on earth died from lack of food and medicine because the richest country on the planet voted to shred their own Constitution due to annoyance over the prices of their chicken nuggie delivery services.

Unfortunately

Fascinating

On a more personal note, I find it highly entertaining that they laid bare there own biases with such supreme obliviousness.

I disagree with the end of your statement. It is an extremely effective form az of analyzing an important question, just not the one it claims to answer. The question being: "what are the political priorities of NYT columnist?", a group that is influential especially in US liberal elite circles