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Wed, 05/04/2023 - 17:58
It’s Wednesday and so I have a few items to discuss followed by some music. Many readers have E-mailed me asking about last week’s decision by the OPEC+ cartel to cut production of crude oil by 1.66 million barrels per day. Taken together with the previous cuts (2 millions barrels per day) in October, this…
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Wed, 05/04/2023 - 10:20
Unable even to scrape two nominees together – and leaving almost 200 hundred seats uncontested in May’s council elections because it couldn’t find candidates willing to represent Starmer The Labour party last week claimed it has a ‘paid-up’ membership of 382,000. Even if this were true, it would represent a massive fall in membership compared […]
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Wed, 05/04/2023 - 09:30
This did not happen… This did: He did not lead anyone down the boulevard. He slunk in and out of the courtroom as fast as possible and hightailed it back to his safe space in Maralago. Poor little Eric was just trying to buck up his sad, sad daddy.
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Wed, 05/04/2023 - 08:00
This is a good take on the DeSantis and Trump dynamic at the moment. It’s complicated. Very complicated. Puck’s Tara Palmeri has an excellent interview with Florida politico Peter Schorsch about what DeSantis Land is thinking these days and I have to say . . . it does not inspire confidence in Meatball Ron’s chances. Read the whole thing. Being immune to real-world feedback is not a great trait in a politician. And I agree that the window to attack Trump has closed because of the indictment. But the best line is from the unnamed Trump aide: “DeSantis brought a mercenary army to a holy war.” That perfectly sums up the establishment support for DeSantis. Conservatism Inc. was so eager for someone to rid them of Trump that they jumped behind DeSantis purely because his poll numbers were good. They had no plan. They were never going to confront Trump. They simply believed that they could lecture the rubes about electability and then the unwashed would do what they were told.