The Conservative Cave

Per https://oilprice.com/oil-price-charts/ , WTI, West Texas Intermediate (the grade produced in ... western Texas) currently is $92.45. A couple of months ago, it peaked at $115. Brent crude is $100.54 currently. IOW, the NY Slimes selected the price for the grade less relevant to the US because they want Trump to look worse.

The price I paid yesterday for gas - usual station, Regular, credit price - is up 17 cents from a week ago, but still 50 cents lower than its high a month or two ago.

I do not love paying 20 or 30 cents per gallon higher than January this year, and I love even less the deaths of 14 or 15 US service personnel, but those are dwarfed by the prospect of Iran's 47-year war on the US, in which thousands of Americans were killed ending ... and by Iran's ability to threaten most of Europe and much of Africa and Asia with nuclear weapons being crushed.

It is Brent Crude that hit $100, which is ONLY oil that derives from the North Sea. Crude Oil is indeed at 92+/- at the moment. Jeez people, oil and stock prices fluctuate constantly, most of which has ZERO to do with political issues. The broader stock market is down today mostly because of AI concerns. There is still 4 1/2 hours left in the trading day, so no one knows what is going to happen or how it might transpire by the close.

Inflation: We've chastised President Obama many times for failing to live up to promises he made when running for the office. So in fairness, we want to credit him for fulfilling one of them: his pledge to raise energy costs.

In early 2008, candidate Obama told the San Francisco Chronicle that "under my plan ... electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket."

Obama was referring to his plan to cap greenhouse-gas emissions, which would, among other things, effectively choke off coal as an energy source. He was just as fond of high gasoline prices, telling CNBC in June 2008 — as gas prices shot up to $4 a gallon — that he "would have preferred a gradual adjustment."

Six years later, and Obama has succeeded.

Airport loser is back

What in Hades is Her Repetitive Redundancy yammering on about? It's Trump's FBI and DOJ that has exposed fraudulent voters, states' refusing to maintain their voter rolls, and exposed Chinese interference (e.g. fraudulent drivers licenses) in US elections.

Has mal's rum-laced taken her to some sort of perpendicular universe?

• Mal is, as the Dim'Rat politicians and MSM propaganda organs intended, confusing the federal Election Assistance Commission - an agency established to hand out federal money for get out the vote campaigns (and who's benevolence went almost EXCLUSIVELY to leftist organizations) for which the President received USSC approval to fire the leftist commissioners there on - for an Agency that "oversees election integrity"
• Having successfully conflated the agency's mission objectives in mal's rum-soaked mind, mal is - as the Dim'Rat politicians and MSM propaganda organs intended - now castigating the President for his "hypocrisy" vis-a-vis railing on about election integrity while simultaneously disbanding the "organization established to promote election integrity".