Don't blame me, I voted for the other guy. (Politics General)

Great news! The Jan 6 committee has formally voted to subpoena Trump to testify in front of them to explain his actions on Jan 6.

If he refuses then they can motion towards the DOJ to indict and arrest him.

Fucking finally. That SoB should’ve been in handcuffs over a decade ago.

@Dustcan
They better not wait too long to motion to the DOJ. Nail his cowardly ass.

Yeah, there’s where the rub comes in.

I’m not sure when’s the deadline, but the clock’s ticking. The J6 committee might be sending Merrick Garland into a screaming panic over the prospect of doing his job, but the midterms are still right around the corner. With Republicans still set to take the House Dems have until January to close this case on Trump before his stooges give Garland an early birthday gift and kills the thing altogether.

So yeah. Women’s right to their own bodies, our democracy, justice in and for America and more. All are decided at the ballot box in just over 3 weeks.

In more “We live in the Onion timeline” news, Trump is trying to weasel his way out of the lawsuit against the Trump Organization by directing its funds to a new shell company he made called…Trump Organization 2.

Somehow, despite long passing the Tyson Zone, Trump still finds ways to make me say “There’s no way he can be that stupid.”

I’m always proven wrong.

@Dustcan
Trump is that guy that proves to us that he is that stupid.

Do you ever feel like public schools only give students a surface-level knowledge (at best) of politics, government, economics and history?

@Background Pony #C68F
Teens are already depressed, no need to make them moreso (though my high school did have a history teacher who had a class all about WWII and how fucked up it was).

SpaceX is telling the Pentagon that they will now have to pay for Ukraines StarLink system because a Ukrainian said something mean to Musk.

Musk is a spoiled manchild and I really wish he had stayed a bald, fat, basement nerd who never say the light of day unless his window shade slipped.

@Zincy
He might be losing most of his money soon, so you might get your wish.

Kwasi Kwarteng; the UK chancellor whose mini-budget fucked up the economy, has now been sacked barely a month after being in the position. Real great start to Liz Truss’ government, can’t wait to see if we end up with yet another PM next year.

He’s the second shortest serving minister in history.

And the shortest serving one is only that because he literally died 30 days into his tenure.

@CaptainXtra
Do other countries elect their respective supreme courts? I know mine does not.

Trump is the type of guy that would type in in a calculator what 0+0 equals lol

Fuck that, he’d make someone else do it for him then take credit for being the first to solve such a complex equation.

@Kazapsky
More like, Trump would say it’s like 2. But some guy would correct him saying it’s 0, then trump has a tantrum calling it fake news and threatens prison time

Did you know in the 2006 Texas gubernatorial election, Rick Perry won with only 39.03% of the vote? Carole Keeton Strayhorn, an Independent, got 18.13% of the vote, Richard “Kinky” Friedman got 12.43%, James Werner got 0.61%, and write-ins got 0.02%.

Third parties gave the country Bush and Trump.

@Background Pony #C68F
Only two main parties gave us Trump and Bush.

@Meanlucario
You mean 1. You forgot Reagan.

@igotnopicks
I’m talking about the republicans and democrats parties.

I really wanna see Alex Jones appeal 1,000,000,000$ lol. That’s what you get for inciting violence

Crude prices are slipping back towards 90 a barrel in the Brent index, with WTI starting to slip below 85.

This is in spite of OPEC+’s recent decision to cut oil production targets by 2 million barrels.

There are a lot of factors at work. For starters, most OPEC nations weren’t even reaching their orginal targets, meaning the cut was actually closer to being just north of 500,000 barrels.

Secondly, crude reserves actually had an unexpected build this cycle, where most predicted a draw. This means that more oil was bought and stored than was used and refined, as opposed to a draw where more oil was used than was stored.

The most important factor is that ultimately OPEC was fighting the market and the market is winning. Covid restrictions in China, draw backs in Europe, a super strong dollar, and the risk of a global recession has oil prices very suppressed.

The bulls that expected oil prices to hit 100 by mid October have once again been shot down. In fact, oil and gas bulls have been on an unprecedented losing streak lately.

@Meanlucario
If you were talking about Democrats then you are missing the Presidents that are democrats like Woodrow Wilson.

Some anti-oil activists tried to destroy some of Van Gogh’s paintings with soup.

@Goku Black
So instead of trying to spread awareness or trying to help fix the problem, they are being assholes and trying to destroy pieces of art because they were made with oil paint.