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DonP's avatar

The Venezuelan oil reserves are only shown as being so large, because Chavez monkeyed with the numbers to show it has the largest. It in fact, does not have the largest oil reserves in the world. And before you go Googling to prove me wrong, keep in mind that those figures rely on data reported by the countries, not from oil exploration companies.

And I've said this many times before, it shouldn't be surprising that a man who bankrupted THREE CASINOS would know how to handle the US economy.

Skitealwedrop's avatar

All I can say is that the orange conman isn’t the brightest crayon in the box. He doesn’t understand economics and he sure as hell doesn’t understand tariffs. He’s an idiot!

Stephen Brady's avatar

One of Donnie’s professors at UPENN called him “the dumbest goddamed student I ever had “.

pilar's avatar

The reply should have been, “How dumb was(is) he?

Skitealwedrop's avatar

I believe it. And to think he’s in charge of our government. SMFH

Stephen Brady's avatar

He is nothing so much as a NY mob boss. And, certainly not a very smart one.

Skitealwedrop's avatar

He isn’t smart enough to be a mob boss. He’s a wanna be mob boss. He’d be whacked in the first week.

Hound's avatar

New York City is notoriously corrupt. Giuliani protected Trump and that could be why he was never arrested for his crimes in the 80s and 90s in New York. More recently Trump bought himself a judge named Juan Merchan. After a jury convicted Trump of 34 felonies the judge he bought sends him to NOTHING!

Skitealwedrop's avatar

I was wondering how he screwed so many contractors in NYC and is still alive.

James K's avatar

Not really. The anti-Semitic Jew, Steven Miller is currently running the government. DJT is taking a nap.

Hound's avatar

A lot of histories suggest that the Rothchilds collaborated with Hitler. The Catholic Church also collaborated with Hitler.

Money and power has no loyalty to anything other than money and power. The rich powerful I’ve always been the enemies of humanity. It is in their DNA.🧬

James K's avatar

You may be right. And the oil is too muddy to be processed by US refineries.

Jo Burns's avatar

High amounts of sulfur. It Is actually toxic.

Skitealwedrop's avatar

We don’t see the O&G Executives investing in the infrastructure to drill for sludge in a dictatorship.

James K's avatar

So the oil smells like farts. Good luck selling that.

Jo Burns's avatar

Drive through Sulfur Kentucky. You'll never get the smell out if your nostrils.

Jo Burns's avatar

Math doesn't math for orange man down. In fact, they aren't acquainted. Just like his concept of a plan yo buy Greenland 🇬🇱 🙄

Francesca Cee's avatar

He thinks you can reduce drug prices by 1200%. He definitely doesn't understand even basic math. A true idiot

Skitealwedrop's avatar

The idiot can’t buy something that isn’t for sale.

James K's avatar

Don't forget that math genius is going to reduce prescription drugs by 1500%. Sounds like a good investment. I pay for a $10 prescription and the pharmacist has to give me hundreds of dollars. I kinda like that idea, 👍 Donnie

James K's avatar

Or 1200%, or 800%. This is like the stock market. Timing your buy is crucial to maximizing profit.

Will Mc's avatar

STRAIGHT FACTS!!👍🏾👍🏾

James K's avatar

I don't think you can make a 79 year old man and his brainwashed sycophants ever see the light. And I'm an optimist.

James K's avatar

A 79 year old man with dementia. Steven Miller is acting President. Trump named Marco(I go wherever the wind blows) Rubio Viceroy of Greenland. Viceroys are appointed by Kings.

Eleanor Duffield's avatar

A posting today on BlueSky argued that 47 must be central for attention but if it were to be transferred to Stephen Miller and Russell Vought, Trump would get so irate he'd fire them and bring attention back to himself. Would their removal bring threat of fascism to an abrupt end since 47 is their tool.

James K's avatar

I don't think so but it's possible.

Ghostlyair59's avatar

The American people are being slowly bled while attention is constantly diverted elsewhere. If there’s going to be accountability, it requires focus—not distractions. The Epstein files are the clearest path forward. So why has nothing more been released? What’s the delay?

James K's avatar

Pam Bindi's DOJ never had any intention of releasing them, which makes them pedarest protectors. Most people say pedophile, but that is a misnomer. Pedophiles are attracted to prepubescent girls. Pederests are attracted to 13-17 year old teenagers.Trump made his preference clear. When asked what age would be to young for an adult to have sex with, he answered, " I don't know. Maybe 12." What a guy.

They follow the orders of the Dear Leader. They first tried to delay by saying that for transparency they would release the grand jury testimony, knowing that the judge would not allow it and that there wasn't anything in there that wasn't already known.

Then they put almost a thousand FBI agents on it to go through and black out Trump's name and probably other high profile people. Trump's name was in the files over 600 times.

Then in violation of the transparency act they eventually released (0.6 %).

Then they claimed they were doing the best they could under the short time given, despite having known since February that it had to be done.

Now they have been ordered to appear before a judge to testify as to why there is a delay by this Friday. However there is a caveat. At the end of the order the judge asked both sides to answer two questions. Basically, am I the right judge to be hearing this just because I was on the Maxwell case and do I have jurisdiction?

And that's where we are at.

Then they claimed that it would take a while to go through a

MARY O's avatar

Please talk about Sasha Riley’s interview and story of his abuse and child trafficking by Trump, Epstein and government officials.

Sky Blue's avatar

ALL because the maga GOP PEDOPHILE PROTECTORS don't want to release ALL the epstein files because trump IS a PEDOPHILE!!!

VOTE ALL maga PEDOPHILE PROTECTORS OUT!!! And VOTE OUT ALL who support them!!

VOTE IN people who ACTUALLY CARE about AMERICA and AMERICAN CHILDREN!!!

Sherrie Hill's avatar

The republicans are the only people in this country that can rein him in! As far as I’m concerned, they are responsible for EVERYTHING he is doing ruining this country. We need to be shouting this from the rooftops. They’re spineless!🤬

Heather Olivier's avatar

YES he does. Get him GONE people!!

Earline Bean's avatar

That’s what happens when you elect a washed up playboy wanna be as president to run the greatest country ever. He was promoted to the level of his incompetency.

The question now is— how do we get him out. People are hungry, cold, depressed, broke. It’s all about money and power.

How do we get him out? What would make him happy enough to leave? For some reason our trusted congress doesn’t want to do their job. Lord knows he’s given them enough reason to impeach him again.

James K's avatar

My actual cousin (unfortunately) is JD Vance. JD wants to be President. He's smart enough to know he can't win the election. But with enough promises to the Secretaries he may be able to force the 25th Amendment. Then we'll have a President with the same agenda, but not stupid. Did I mention I'm an optimist?

Earline Bean's avatar

I believe you are qualified for almost anything. I’m proud of you and your family. You also prove Musk wrong that we should import more foreigners cause they are smarter than Americans.

Thank you for sharing your info.

The info I saw about the million robots was on a Substack article about Musk.

with all these accomplishments are you teaching? You should be the Education Secretary. Nevertheless you would be a strong role model for everyone.

I am curious as to when is your birthday. You possibly are a Virgo.

James K's avatar

Earline, Do you have proof that you are a human Bean and not AI?😁

Earline Bean's avatar

No. Except my birth certificate. Do we need that now.

I have been thinking … please encourage your cousin to depose or whatever to get rid of Trump. We are on the very brink of a catastrophic war both here and with our allies.

It is past time to act. He should have the Democrats on his side. Plus he needs to get rid of all the cabinet members.

It is time to return to sanity.

James K's avatar

If you want to go to Canada you need your birth certificate to get a passport. A driver's license or state ID don't count The maximum you can stay is 180 days for work

If you plan on staying in the US carrying a birth certificate, passport or driver's license won't matter. ICE doesn't care. They are in several videos saying so. They often don't allow you to show them your ID. They have arrested well over 170 US citizens according to testimony directed at Christie Noam under oath to Congress.

Earline Bean's avatar

This is just a small reason, one of many reasons as you know, why you have to organize your group to remove the wanna be king. Just kidding yet it looks as though someone needs to. It isn’t hopeless yet. You know they are just a lot of rascals who got $40 to $50K to sign up. Haven’t heard their hourly pay.

Most of them may not have a high school education. What is not understandable is why they are still around. They are murders, rabble rousers, child endangers spraying pepper spray on babies in their car seats.

They have probably broken every law and yet no one in authority is yelling about this. I do believe I heard Trump saying Thursday on The Hill “she shouldn’t have died”. I thought he was talking about Renee. It hasn’t been picked up by any other channel I have seen. Maybe I was dreaming.

What are you going to do?

Changing the subject. When you were in Kuwait did you go to the Holiday inn? I got to go to the grand opening. When we walked in someone in the group said it looks like they just threw a million dollars at the walls. It is an interesting hotel with their waterfall from the top floor to the basement

We landed in Abu Dhabi and toured the Arab Emirates - Dubai, Bahrain,Sharjah and Khor Fakkan.

James K's avatar

I researched the million robots story. I wouldn't worry about it. Elon Musk is (as usual) way overstating the case He's doing this to get outside investors to invest in his company. Billionaires rule #1 is never use your own money when you can use someone elses. The AI energy requirements would exceed the energy production currently needed to power the entire Northeastern US. The technology needed is at least a decade away. Most importantly, Elon Musk fails 10 times more than he succeeds. I'm not exaggerating.

James K's avatar

Also the rare earth metals (especially Lithium) don't currently exist at the level needed. That's why Trump is threatening to invade Greenland, which is rich in rare earths. More profitable for him than oil.

James K's avatar

Until Trump screwed it all up, I believe we were importing about the right amount of foreigners, with expertise in fields we are short on for various reasons. Something that many people don't know is that no matter your ethic background, race, gender, or sexual orientation, we all have the exact same brain that works the exact same way. Except pygmy brains are smaller and some brains (like Einstein's) are larger. The differences are in cultural customs and pressures, lack of economic opportunities to thrive, individual drive, lack of curiosity to learn, and government priorities on where to spend money.

James K's avatar

Trump got Malania into the US on a "genius" exception to immigration rules.

James K's avatar

She probably could have gotten in on an "artist" exception because I hear she was a talented exotic dancer in Slovenia.

James K's avatar

Babies are born with brain plasticity. Their brains are a sponge. They are curious and absorb everything around them. Imagine the 2 year old who's constantly asking, "Why?". As we get older our brains lose plasticity and learning becomes more difficult. You can stave off dementia by being socially active and learning new things daily. Narcissists (like Trump) are prone to dementia because they think they already know everything.

James K's avatar

When Einstein was born his mother thought he was deformed because his head was so big.

James K's avatar

He must have been a real pain in the...

Earline Bean's avatar

I agree. That is why I think you should devote some of your time to the younger generation to inspire them.

I don’t know these younger musicians you speak of.

How does your wife keep up with you? It seems you are a very vital active man and a challenge to partner with.

James K's avatar

I've been divorced for 20 years. I gave her everything she (meaning her lawyer) could ask for. She earned it. She was married to me. She's living a happy life with with her boyfriend since before the divorce. I'm very happy for her. She deserves it. She never did one thing wrong in 23 years of marriage. It was all me.

Earline Bean's avatar

I don’t believe she didn’t do anything Have you as some men do, put her on a pedestal and forgotten the mad parts. We are all hard to live with.

I am sorry you are disabled. War is terrible. When do you think Trump will invoke the Insurrection Act? What will it mean to us?

Debi's avatar

You can chose your friends - not your relatives - right? Unfortunately, Justa Dick Vance doesn't seems to have any real platform or beliefs. His positions float depending on who he is speaking to and none of it seems to be anything he HONESTLY believes beyond his desire to lord over others and pretend he is pseudo-royalty. He lies and spreads misinformation almost daily and his "core" values seem remarkably fluid. I personally don't think he can be trusted any further than I could throw a real Mack truck with one hand.

James K's avatar

He is an excellent writer though. In "Hillbilly Elegy" he tells the story of our Appalachian heritage. Ron Howard directed the movie. Glen (I will not be ignored) plays his crazy mother. So, I guess I'm somehow related to Glen Close, maybe?

In Appalachia we say it differently. You can pick your friends and you can pick your nose, but you can't pick your friend's nose

In the mountains of Tennessee kids are called by their first and middle names, because they have a lot of kids and they run out of Christian names. My mom's family was small. There were only eleven.

The alternative is to use holidays and months. I had an aunt June, April, and Mary Christmas, born on... Yeah.

And a great aunt May.

James K's avatar

JD is a Yale Law School graduate.

Earline Bean's avatar

I have heard him speak on the T V and he is powerful. I don’t like this agenda. I am a Democrat and think we should help people rather than take from them and give to the rich. Also they are trying to make themselves king and that is not acceptable.

Did you read the piece about John Kennedy said no one should have so much money. It was in Substack. I really like that publication as well as Raw Story.

Also it is extremely unsettling that Musk has an order for one million armed robots. What are they preparing for?

I don’t know what your expertise is. I strongly suggest you give him a run for his money. He gets all the good contracts, it seems He needs competition.

James K's avatar

I wouldn't put much faith in the story about the million robots. Sounds to me more likely to be someone spreading a conspiracy theory. Where did you read or hear that? When I ask someone Why do you believe that is true?" The most common answers are:

1) I read it on the Internet.

2) A friend told me. Where did your friend find this? On the Internet or a friend told him.

If a story sounds suspicious it needs to be researched on sites that end in .edu or .gov or Wikipedia. When you use Wikipedia go to the bottom and check the original source.

As far as my skills and qualifications, I'll post that as soon as it takes me to write it up. It's a long list.

James K's avatar

I am 66 years old, but in excellent health because I walk and exercise every day. I don't drive a car. I work with the homeless in Clarksville, providing food, clothes, and personal counseling. I proud to say that Clarksville has been voted the #1 city in Tennessee for providing for the homeless several years running. Some of the people that I work with call me the professor. I'm also a musician singer songwriter and an artist in oils, acrylic, marker, and pencils. I read two books a week and my favorite subjects are astrophysics and quantum mechanics.

James K's avatar

Just got an email from Jadyn Rylee 30 seconds ago. How it all began" with two pics from her viral video cover of"Sound of Silence". Shaun Penn saw this video and cast her as his 10 year old daughter in the movie, "Flag Day". You can Google a long ad for the movie

James K's avatar

I am a Patreon to several young musicians, providing money and advice to help them thrive in their careers my I'm friends with Jadyn Rylee, Daneliya Tuleshova and Karolina Protsenko.

James K's avatar

I typed out my military and civilian experience and it disappeared. I'll try to type it again in two parts.

Military: 28 years in the Special Forces and Infantry. Two time combat veteran of Desert Storm and the Battle of Mogadishu in Somalia (Black Hawk Down)

A minor character representing me is in "Black Hawk Down", Zero Dark 30" and another one I can't recall at the moment. I have a TBI. 43 awards and decorations and ribbons. Survival training in every environment on the planet except for the bottom of the ocean and inside a volcano (I'm working on that). Expert in Marksmanship, Communications, Electronics (designed and built my first Code Practice Oscillator at 8 years old), Engineering and Demolitions, Operations and Intelligence, Field Medical, and Interrogation and Counter-interrogation techniques.

James K's avatar

Civilian: BS degree in Psychology and Geography. BA degree in History and Languages. AS degree in Electronics. Studied law at the University of Maryland University College. 165 IQ. My granddaughter Aubrey and son Chris and much smarter. When she was 11 Aubrey designed and built a robot (better than Musk could dream of) that won the County, the State and the World at Legoland in California.

Earline Bean's avatar

Read. “what I wish I could tell every grandmother in America right now”.

I have one of those Amazon TVs. I got it before Christmas. For the last two months I have had charges for Amazon deducted from my bank statement. There is no phone no . to call to ask why.

I must get a different TV. That one is in my bedroom. How could anyone make a 40” tv kill be without breaking the glass first. Just one more thing to worry about.

Earline Bean's avatar

Oh, in his corrupt mind he deserves it. He supposedly doesn’t accept his salary.

He spent 3 million dollars of taxpayers money on a Halloween party inviting Jason Aldean and wife. The next week end he had another big party. And no telling how many other parties he has hosted taxpayers paid for.

I just saw him on TV. He is sickening.

What do we do. Old joke. Indian Chief went to doctor complaing bowels don’t move. Doctor gave his medication with instructions to come back when bowels move. few weeks later Chief came back. Told doctor bowels moved. Teepee full of s—-

When our teepee gets full then I guess Congress will do something. In the meantime they could rein in his spending. I haven’t heard if he got the 240 million I believe it was, for raiding his home.

Earline Bean's avatar

If you haven’t already, read Elanora Squad “A Memory Record of

American Power”.

Earline Bean's avatar

Elon and Trump are greedy with no regard for others. I wondered about the electricity ond/or batteries. Elon.s electricity reduction plugs don’t work for anyone but him to make money. My daughter gifted me with them and my bill did not go down.

I am in Alabama now and I don’t think they have the Tombigbee Waterway thing that reduces electricity costs. Alabama power is expensive. It’s very reliable. In five years I’ve only had one short outage.

Earline Bean's avatar

I have an IPhone and I absolutely hate it. I typed a response to you. When I saw you had sent another note I moved away and lost my response.

Anyway you are a Tennessee wonder and delightful to know. I’m afraid I was never as ambitious as you. Although I did go to the University of Houston when I was 39 got my degree and almost a masters before I burned out.

James K's avatar

Over the years I've been burned out many times. I just take a break and go back to it later. My college degrees came over a period of 15 years. To me it's not about the goal. It's about the journey. It's about enjoying the moment

Young people walk slowly, hand in hand.

Older people walk quickly one in front of the other. While one is rushing to get where they are going, the other is still trying to get

the baby out of the car.

The elderly walk slowly, hand in hand.

James K's avatar

Cellphones are the most addictive drug in human history. When teenage girls were asked in a survey what would they give up for their phone the most common answer was a hand. Public service announcements advise parents to put their phone in the back seat to remind them that they have a baby in the car!

Jadyn Rylee wrote a song called, "I'd Give Up My Phone for You" to make this point.

Stephen P Dodson's avatar

And if he can manoeuvre the Fed Reserve from its current apolitical stance, things will get worse. There is a perverse side of me that wants MAGA supporters to reap what they have sown.

James K's avatar

They will just blame it on Biden.

PatricJoseph's avatar

Thanks! For the Eye Opening Information! Great Job!

Linda Roberta Hibbs's avatar

Thank you for the article, Kansas has dismissed its grocery tax all except for Walmart. Governor Kelly gave her state of the union address, day before yesterday, she is quite the progressive. She got education reinstated, mental health facilities, reopened, that really helps people. They are working on a bipartisan plan to keep cell phones away from children, because of phonographic sites. Her speech was about being civility, to one another, and try to work together. Tuxedo Man says hello. Patches is still a diva she is in love Waj. 😂 😂! I tell her , that he is married. Please subscribe to The Good in US, by Mary Trump. She like everyone else is cat, friendly. Even dog friendly.

linda shore's avatar

Life was good under Biden. He worked to help the American people.

Don Draper's avatar

Should the Dimwit in the Oval Office decide to invade Greenland prepare for the US economy to crater as NATO and European countries cash in US treasury bonds. A few trillion dollars of debt being called will send shockwaves through the financial markets ushering in a depression America won’t easily recover from.

Jane Burton's avatar

Affirmative! DJT wants to rule the world! Mr Putin & Xi JinPing be warned!

James K's avatar

I somewhat disagree. According to his Donroe Doctrine he gets North and South America, Putin gets Europe, and China gets Asia.

Jane Burton's avatar

LOL! You could be right! Time will tell!

Dennis King's avatar

Mary, Donald is a complete ignoramus not only of economics, but of anything related to science, technology, medicine and anything else that benefits human and all other life. He is a sinister being without redeeming qualities, and a scourge upon the planet. It is inconceivable to me that the Nobel Prize winner should wish to share her prize with this monster. The gene which carried the

blueprint for your great uncle John's and your scientific acumen was absent in demented Donald.

We who are in his sway must rise to debunk him, else to have future generations struggling for air.