Mike Pence? LOL Mike Pence hasn't supported Trump for 6 years, Lucky!
Oil prices will drop initially because of all the bottled up supply that's already on ships. Then you're going to see increased production from Gulf States leaving OPEC..from Venezuela as investment money has flooded in to reconstitute their energy infrastructure...and from the US as Trump's energy policies continue to produce more oil and natural gas. The American people are going to see that production is increasing and they're going to know that will decrease prices.
AI Overview
Oil prices will likely stay high even if a conflict ends because global supply will remain tight due to extensive infrastructure damage, a massive rush by nations to refill depleted strategic stockpiles, and prolonged shipping delays caused by stranded tankers.
The post-conflict oil crunch is driven by a few critical factors:
- Damaged Infrastructure: Ongoing hostilities frequently result in damage to key production, processing, and transportation facilities in oil-producing regions. Restarting these facilities or repairing physical damage takes months or even years, structurally limiting how much oil can reach the market.
- Replenishing Strategic Reserves: Countries release massive amounts of oil from their strategic stockpiles to soften price spikes during a war. Once the war concludes, there is an immediate and sustained global race to buy oil to refill these reserves. This sudden surge in demand keeps prices elevated.
- Shipping Logistical Bottlenecks: When shipping routes (like the Strait of Hormuz) are restricted or closed, hundreds of tankers get stranded. Even if a ceasefire occurs, it takes weeks or months to clear the shipping backlogs, normalize freight rates, and physically move the oil to where it needs to go.
- Structural Changes in Energy Risk: Markets adjust to "the new normal". Because the threat of future conflict or blockades is not erased overnight, traders continue to price in higher war-risk insurance premiums and security costs.
A comprehensive analysis of how the Middle East conflict impacts energy markets is available on
Investopedia. If you would like to explore this topic further, I can also break down how long these recovery timelines typically last, or analyze which specific energy sectors might see the most volatility. Let me know what you'd like to look at next!
The number of American's that own stocks is at the highest level since 2008 with a Gallop Poll showing 62% of Americans now own stocks of some kind. That's 62% of Americans that are seeing record profits. 62% of Americans that are already making money from Trump's economic policies and will benefit even more when the economy reacts to the stimulus in the Big Beautiful Bill.
That number is true but...........
AI Overview
About
62% of American adults own stock in the market,
but only a small fraction—estimated at roughly 7% to 10% of the general population—are active "traders" who buy and sell frequently rather than just holding long-term retirement accounts. [
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This means they lose money when the market goes down
and this is what needs to be considered:
As companies race to dominate in AI, Wall Street expects the enormous
buildout of data centers to continue in order to power the technology. That’s sparking fierce rallies in companies other than just Big Tech: Some of the hottest stocks this year have been the memory chip makers and data storage companies poised to benefit from the AI infrastructure buildout.
and this is what is happening:
The narrative around artificial intelligence has dominated market discourse for the past 18 months, driving unprecedented gains in a select group of tech giants. However, a growing chorus of strategists and investors are questioning the sustainability of this rally, with concerns over stretched valuations reaching a "mini panic moment" as 2026 unfolds. The market is grappling with a tug-of-war between the undeniable transformative potential of AI and the fear that current prices have baked in too much future success.
The Democrats are becoming MORE extreme not less! Tell me a "moderate" Democrat that has won a primary or an election? You can't...the far left is winning in Democratic strongholds and politicians like AOC, Zohran and Katie Wilson are your new "stars"! None of them has a clue about policies that will actually work...something that will be quite obvious in the coming months.
The DEMS are changing their strategy:
and here are some of the things that caught my attention
1) The Big Reboot, the governing program of the Comeback Campaign – which isn’t just going back to what we had before. It’s a full reset to create a better system. We should campaign on this Big Reboot and be ready to implement it as quickly as possible. Once we win back trifecta power, we need to do five major things well in the Big Reboot:
- Repair the damage of the Trump regime – a huge undertaking. We will need our own version of Project 2025 for 2029 and we will need at least the first 12 months to begin to repair what has been broken.
- Address the affordability crisis and help people economically right away – and pay for it by taxing billionaires and multinational corporations.
- Communicate constantly in attention-grabbing ways that let people know we are listening. We are taking bold action. And we are on their team. We are Team America.
- Reform the system in noticeable ways – from expanding voting rights to affordable housing to supercharging clean energy and phasing out fossil fuels to getting money out of politics to ensuring that AI benefits all Americans, not just the titans of big tech.
- Modernize government to anticipate and address emerging threats – there will be many. We have to transform our government to be ready!
This above, is not the plan itself but a guideline of the steps that need to be taken to come up with something specific.
Here are 3 steps to the plan that have already been decided on:
- Affordability Affordability Affordability. We need a progressive version of an abundance agenda. We’re going to bring down prices by building more houses and clean energy, reversing Trump tariffs, fighting price gouging, monopolies and more. How do we make things more affordable? By building more houses, more factories, more clean energy, and smart grids — combined with higher take-home pay for working people and affordable public goods like education, paid for by higher taxes on the ultra-wealthy (see below). “Build Baby Build!” could be a positive chant at rallies – as it has been in Canada – as a counterpoint to “Drill Baby Drill!” or “Build the Wall.” And – see below – we can bring together a progressive abundance agenda with a populist agenda – the best of both worlds!
- Billionaire Tax. We need to tax billionaire wealth (not just income) and create a "billionaire dividend” check that every American receives in their bank account ideally every month – so that people experience the results immediately. Extreme wealth is a threat to national security – and a danger to nation-states worldwide. We can’t have billionaires buying up our country and stealing our elections. We need an international compact to progressively tax multi-billionaires and multi-national corporations, go after tax evasion, and raise wages for regular people. Build America not Billionaires!
- Care Care Care. Universal health care! Child care! Elder care! The health insurance system is breaking and it’s getting worse. Parents are struggling to afford child care. The crisis in elder care is bursting at the seams. The cost of higher education is saddling generations in debt. We almost won major national progress in 2022 and 2024. We almost won free community college and trade schools. As the affordability crisis worsens, bold solutions will become more appealing and expand political will. We are a movement by and for working families who are getting crushed and desperately need affordable care and education.
More is needed but at least this is a good starting point where the Democratic party can begin to show Americans what they can (and will) do to make their lives better.
Areas of the country that are controlled by conservatives are thriving at the moment...it's areas that are controlled by liberals that are turning into places that nobody wants to live.
bullshit:
AI Overview
There is no simple consensus that areas controlled by one political party are uniformly thriving while the other sinks; rather, different regions excel in different economic metrics. Blue states (often led by Democrats) frequently lead in overall GDP, wages, and education levels. Conversely, red states (often led by Republicans) generally boast faster population growth, more affordable housing, and lower costs of living.