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Burly @burlydub1.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

More oil is passing out of the Persian Gulf, but the cost of shipping that oil is at all-time high, because of the time and number of tankers needed to move the oil through the Strait of Hormuz and transfer it to larger tankers. oilprice.com/Energy/Energ...

oilprice.com

Tanker Rates Soar to Record as Oil Crisis Becomes Shipping Crisis | OilPrice.com

Supertanker rates hit a record $1.4 million per day on Persian Gulf–Asia routes, surging 40% in the first week of October amid the Iran war.

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Brown University’s widget shows that the energy costs of the Iran war have just passed $1,000 per household iranwarcost.watson.brown.edu

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Burly @burlydub1.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

And Hasan Piker is a loudmouth with podcast. But false equivalence!

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Burly @burlydub1.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

There’s no doubt Trump & Co. are cooking the books because the price of gasoline and diesel have been oppressively high for some months now. Prices for food and consumer goods have to be going up more than the amounts reported so far.

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Burly @burlydub1.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

They’re all in on the grift, either for money or power or both. Marco sorely wants to be President one day, and seems to think abasing himself now is the way he’ll get there.

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Burly @burlydub1.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Sayed should have finished the response with “Hasan Piker is just a loud mouth with a podcast.“

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Burly @burlydub1.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Trump firmly believes that whatever is good for him personally is good for the country. Thus, he sees his corruption as a public good.

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Burly @burlydub1.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Conservative women in his district will probably still vote for this knuckle-dragger.

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Burly @burlydub1.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Black Panther breakfast program was a big deal because it lit a fire under Democratic Party to pass legislation to provide food for school children. This is big effect third parties can have: they can’t win in 2-party winner-take-all system, but they can promote good ideas that major party co-opts.

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Burly @burlydub1.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

And getting a lot of money from daddy to start with.

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Burly @burlydub1.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

After Carter’s Iran fiasco, any U.S. President would have gone to war against the Taliban after 9/11. The real mistake was the Iraq War and Bush not early announcing he’d pull out of Afghanistan before the end of his second term.

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Burly @burlydub1.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Yarvin is shitbird who only matters because some number of Silicon Valley billionaires have decided he does. Tax the rich.

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Burly @burlydub1.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

It all depends on the park ground rules.

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Burly @burlydub1.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Can’t leave it to these.

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Burly @burlydub1.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I attended a 1987 then-Yankees- stadium game in the bleacher, and I thoroughly enjoyed it. Went to see more games at suck-ass Shea Stadium though because I was and am SF Giants fan and I had a friend who was a Mets fan.

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Burly @burlydub1.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I wouldn’t visit one of Orange Dingus’ golf clubs except to burn it down.

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Burly @burlydub1.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Recognize BS when you see it.

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Burly @burlydub1.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

MLB players get good health insurance. When they retire, they have to pay out of pocket. $2.7M guaranteed salary probably didn’t dissuade Bauers family either. Few pro players with Bauers’ prior career retire before their age 30 season with that kind of guarantee on offer. It’s a good story though.

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Burly @burlydub1.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Greater San Antonio seems like a good place to fill an arena with MAGAts and also bring out the disruptive protesters.

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Burly @burlydub1.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Almost as prestigious as the FIFA Peace Prize, but I have to ask: why hasn’t Kadyrov received one of those yet? Lord knows, he’s done as much for world peace as Trump has.

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Burly @burlydub1.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Noem doesn’t realize her political career is already dead.

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Burly @burlydub1.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

57 is a strange age to commit suicide unless you have terminal cancer or about to face a long prison sentence.

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Burly @burlydub1.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Indian summer day in San Francisco Bay Area. When it was hot, she wouldn’t wear much more.

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Burly @burlydub1.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The good (?) news is that when the Trump Crash comes, invested money will flee into Treasuries and the rates will come down as low as 0.25%.

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Burly @burlydub1.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

who will vote Republican no matter how bad things get.

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Burly @burlydub1.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

He’s going to make rash, ill-considered decisions with predictable results no matter how many unpopular they are. And there’s little possibility Trump can simply back down from his Iran War decision, because Iran will have a big say in the matter. We’ll find out it there’s a floor on people /3

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Burly @burlydub1.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

There’s a real good chance that Trump’s aggregate approval ratings eventually fall below 30%, and then Senate Repubs might decide that their best chance of holding the White House in 2028 is putting J.D. Vance in in time to stop the utter craziness. Trump can’t help himself /2

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Burly @burlydub1.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

If Dems take both houses of Congress in the upcoming election, I think there’s a good chance Trump gets mot only impeached but convicted. It won’t happen before December 2027, I think, but it could happen. Trump’s approval ratings have been declining at a remarkably steady rate since March 2025. /1

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Burly @burlydub1.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The Republican base seems fine with Trump’s vanity projects so long as he sticks it to the people that hate. It’s the high price of fuel and everything else that needs to be shipped using fuel that bothers them.

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Burly @burlydub1.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

However, the larger existing states (for example, Spain and Catalonia) tend to act like jilted lovers when the substate wants to leave.

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Burly @burlydub1.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

because of bat shit crazy Trump-America policies due the relative sizes of the two economies. Life is unfair. I’m not opposed to an anarchy-syndicalist version of smaller nation states that then seek contractual treaty relationships with other states like the EU. /2

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Burly @burlydub1.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Depends heavily on type of independence sought and obtained. Quebec could have greater independence while maintaining close economic ties with Anglo Canada. Brexit was such a fiasco because UK already had advantage of its own currency. Canada will suffer more through no fault of its own /1

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Burly @burlydub1.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Unfortunately, it takes some pretty serious misery like the Long Depression of the 1870s and the Panic of 1893 (which lasted more than four years) or the Great Depression to produce the political will for real change.

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Burly @burlydub1.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

And in truth many heterosexual men and women choose as their life partners younger and better looking versions of their mothers and fathers who ultimately disappointed them. Subconsciously, better the devil you know.

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Burly @burlydub1.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Because, honestly, who really gives a fu<€ about Hassan Piker?

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Burly @burlydub1.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I doubt the third time will be a charm.

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Burly @burlydub1.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

You have to be incredibly lucky to be able to surrender to the Ukrainians twice. Meat assaults are the norm after the first prisoner exchange. It’s probably just a matter of time before he gets exchanged again, because why would Ukraine want to hold onto a man like this?

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Burly @burlydub1.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

There’s nothing close to democrats in Trump’s Republican Party.

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Burly @burlydub1.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

But a lot of conservative people in blue states move to red states when they retire to take advantage of lower cost of living and lower taxes. Retired California law enforcers moving to Idaho, Nevada, Arizona and Texas with their big California pensions is a good example.

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Burly @burlydub1.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

You make a big target when you are a 2.08 m infantryman.

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Burly @burlydub1.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Boy, Jared’s developed some very evil and corrupt looking eyes.

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Burly @burlydub1.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

One good thing about being a parent is that you get pretty good at tuning it out so long as the little ones aren’t hurting themselves or others.

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Burly @burlydub1.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

There are perpetual motion machines, and then there are perpetual motion machines. It’s really too bad no one has yet figured out how to harness tidal action as an energy source, because by the time the waves stop churning, it will be completely irrelevant to an already extinct humanity.

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