The point is that banning the export of US oil would cause oil to stop being a globalized commodity (in the US.) US production and US consumption have not changed since the Iran war started. But US prices are up since US production is being shipped to places where their supply from Hormuz is cut off.

Other responder said that US refining can’t refine US oil, which would be extremely odd and I hadn’t heard that before but if true would indeed destroy my logic here.

Trump could ban US oil export. That would bring the price of gas down here.

He won’t do that.

Automakers have billions of dollars in brand new EV manufacturing equipment and lines sitting around doing nothing since the new administration changed all the regulations and incentives.

The wildest and most frustrating thing is that absolutely no one (besides OP) is talking about this. The tariffs did not increase domestic manufacturing. They did not work. Yet that is among the least of concerns for the President or any national discourse.

When he says anything will happen in 2-3 weeks, he means the next news cycle in 2-3 weeks should distract you from his total failure to do what he said.

If he was on trial for an unsolved murder he could have plausibly been present for, and the murder relates to the description he wrote in his book, yes absolutely the fact he wrote about similar murders should be presentable to the jury. Of course it should! How would that not be relevant?

I would not think that it would be enough to convict on its own but absolutely it could be supporting evidence.

Had he not already been acquitted, OJ Simpson’s book “If I Did It” should absolutely have been admissible as evidence against him in the murder trial even though he put the word “If” in the title

I did not see a single April fools joke this year

A defendant’s statements should not become inadmissible in court just because they are expressed in the form of rap lyrics.

I really doubt he has any influence even over the diehard MAGA crowd.

Lol what did he say about them?

Exactly who cares the slightest bit about the political opinions of Rob Schneider?

Doing well in the chaos of war does not mean you are unprepared and unplanned.

Disagree. The people who coordinated this sort of thing were professionals who knew EXACTLY what they were doing

We used to be a proper country.

You could be a very fair pricing dentist and easily get a net worth over $1m over your career.

In my experience Microsoft Copilot is wildly inaccurate about facts describing aspects of Microsoft software products like Teams, or even Microsoft Copilot itself.

Oh you don’t like either candidate? What a special person you are! I can’t believe that a nation of 340 million people winnowed down their possible leaders to two people without producing one that you absolutely love!

I would say it’s an extremely blurred line, not a clear difference.

From the perspective of citizens entrusting elected leaders with massive powers they should be considered identical.

I went to a beach on the Jersey Shore and saw this sign

Assuming for the moment that all these criticisms are completely correct and valid, “Provides no new information” or “documentation is methodologically unacceptable” or “selective bias” or “took license” do not mean that a book should therefore be characterized as fictional.

The Gulag Archipelago: An Experiment in Literary Investigation is a three-volume nonfiction series . . .<

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gulag_Archipelago?wprov=sfti1

The Gulag Archipelago (Russian: Arkhipelag GULag; literally, “The Gulag Archipelago”) is a three-volume nonfictional literary investigation. . .<

https://grokipedia.com/page/The_Gulag_Archipelago