Recent Comments

1. 6 days ago on Michael Ramirez

   two years after trump pulled out of the iran nuclear deal, they started enriching uranium. why does trump love terrorist countries?

2. 12 days ago on Ted Rall

   so if you find a felony that had been committed earlier, do you ignore it or no?

3. 17 days ago on Lisa Benson

   I just watched the video, he was talking and giving a thumbs up to the airmen collecting the parachutes. trumpers are friggin morons.

4. 18 days ago on Ted Rall

   On April 12, under pressure from Trump, the world’s biggest oil-producing nations outside the United States agreed to the largest production cut ever negotiated. OPEC, Russia and other allied producers slashed production by 9.7 million barrels per day (bpd), or about 10% of global output. Half that volume came from cuts of 2.5 million bpd each by Saudi Arabia and Russia, whose budgets depend on high oil-and-gas revenues.Despite the agreement to cut a tenth of global production, oil prices continued to fall to historic lows. U.S. oil futures dropped below $0 last week as sellers paid buyers to avoid taking delivery of oil they had no place to store. Brent futures, the global oil benchmark, fell towards $15 per barrel – a level not seen since the 1999 oil price crash – from as high as $70 at the start of the year.The deal for supply cuts could eventually boost prices, however, as governments worldwide start to open their economies and fuel demand rises with increased travel. Whatever the impact, the negotiations mark an extraordinary display of U.S. influence over global oil output.Trump initially welcomed lower oil prices, saying cheap gasoline prices were akin to a tax cut for drivers.That changed after Saudi Arabia announced in mid-March it would pump a record 12.3 million bpd – unleashing the price war with Russia. The explosion of supply came as governments worldwide issued stay-home orders – crushing fuel demand – and made clear that U.S. oil companies would be hit hard in the crude price collapse. Senators from U.S. oil states were infuriated.On March 16, Cramer was among 13 Republican senators who sent a letter to Crown Prince Mohammed reminding him of Saudi Arabia’s strategic reliance on Washington. The group also urged Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross to investigate whether Saudi Arabia and Russia were breaking international trade laws by flooding the U.S. market with oil.

5. 18 days ago on Ted Rall

   why are their prices high? it certainly doesn’t have to do with the wages they pay.

6. 18 days ago on Ted Rall

   no. he did it because refineries were shutting down because Saudi Arabia and Russia were in an oil war and flooding the market, and because the oil companies actually DIDN’T make profit, they started shutting down. Ted Cruz actually went to trump to tell him to do something. right or wrong, a president actually 100% influenced the price of oil and people blamed…joe biden.

7. 19 days ago on Ted Rall

   Just remember that in april of 2020 trump ordered production cuts with cooperation from saudi arabia to cut 10% of GLOBAL production. in May 2020 oil prices took off and haven’t recovered. this also doesn’t address the issues with the monopolization that’s occurred the last few decades where government hasn’t protected individuals from them, although I will say democrats have taken a few steps at some of them.

8. 24 days ago on Joey Weatherford

   so why didn’t republicans pass the bill they agreed to? oh right, because it’s an election year for trump who admitted they didn’t want it to pass so trump could run on it. So republicans don’t actually care about the border, they just use it for fear and a talking point for morons.

9. about 1 month ago on Jen Sorensen

   actually a whole bunch of idiots are blaming biden, when what killed it was ‘perfect capitalism’

10. about 2 months ago on Joey Weatherford

    Only 5 COUNTRIES on the planet have a bigger GDP than california.