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Author: Steve203 🐝  😊 😞
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Subject: if I were a betting man....
Date: 06/28/26 11:56 AM
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...I would say, in a couple days, Trump will declare the cease fire "strong", "powerful", and "perfect", rather than gone, ie, he will surrender to Iran, again. He is in campaign mode. His previous comments, that he cares not one whit about the financial situation of Proles, are no longer operative. Now, he is in Prole pandering mode. Probably to stay in pandering mode, until November. Then it will be back to "JC" profit maximization mode.

‘We should be at $2.25 at the pump’: Trump says Exxon, Chevron, Shell and BP are price gouging drivers. Do you agree?

President Donald Trump is accusing major oil companies of keeping gasoline prices artificially high despite a sharp drop in crude oil prices, saying American drivers are being "gouged" and calling on the Department of Justice (DOJ) to investigate.

"The big Oil Companies are not dropping their price at the pump commensurate with the sharply lower prices they are paying for Oil," Trump wrote Wednesday on Truth Social (1). "Those prices are dropping like a rock! In other words, customers are being 'gouged.'"


https://currently.att.yahoo.com/finance/energy/art...

Decades ago, Mark Russell did a song about Reagan, to the melody of "That's Entertainment". I can only remember a few lines.

"It's baiting a red time. It's Bonzo at bed time."

"Don't be disapprovy, it's only a movie."

If we don't laff at Trump the Magnificent, the alternative is exhaustion, at the constant torrent of delusional garbage that pours from his pie-hole.

Steve



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Author: AlphaWolf 🐝  😊 😞
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Subject: Re: if I were a betting man....
Date: 06/28/26 1:11 PM
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He is in campaign mode. His previous comments, that he cares not one whit about the financial situation of Proles, are no longer operative. Now, he is in Prole pandering mode. Probably to stay in pandering mode, until November.

Nope.

Trump is in full-blown voter suppression mode. He knows the only way Republicans can win is to cheat (even with the Dems piss-poor messaging).

If he was in prole pandering mode, he would have signed the bipartisan housing bill and demand his fat mottled face be placed on Mount Rushmore at his cost (ha ha,I made a funny).



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Author: Steve203 🐝  😊 😞
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Subject: Re: if I were a betting man....
Date: 06/28/26 3:39 PM
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If he was in prole pandering mode, he would have signed the bipartisan housing bill

His stopping the housing bill goes hand in hand with trying to push the SAVE act through Congress. MAGA no doubt reads the SAVE act as preventing "illegals" and other non-white people, from voting.

from the net sifter:

Polls indicate that between 85% and 92% of Republicans support the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act. This legislation would require voters to provide documented proof of citizenship to register to vote in federal elections and require photo identification at the polls.

MAGA probably figures the SAVE Act would not impact them, because they are white. It would only prevent "others" from voting, which they see as a good thing.

Steve
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Author: Steve203 🐝  😊 😞
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Subject: Re: if I were a betting man....
Date: 06/28/26 5:45 PM
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...I would say, in a couple days, Trump will declare the cease fire "strong", "powerful", and "perfect", rather than gone, ie, he will surrender to Iran, again.

******ripped from the headlines*****

Iran talks on hold after fighting breaks out and Trump once again threatens annihilation

The source did not make clear to MS NOW which side decided to pause negotiations.

A senior Trump administration official, however, said the talks had not been called off.

“Nothing has been cancelled,” the official said in a statement to MS NOW. “Technical talks regarding the implementation of [memorandum of understanding] are on track for the coming days as planned.”

Axios later reported that the U.S. and Iran had agreed to stop attacking each other and meet later this week. CNBC has not independently confirmed the report.


https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/28/trump-threatens-ir...

Trump surrendered, again. Anything to prevent MAGA paying an escalating price for gas, until after the election, when MAGA again becomes expendable.

Steve
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Subject: Re: if I were a betting man....
Date: 06/29/26 4:10 AM
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Anything to prevent MAGA paying an escalating price for gas, until after the election, when MAGA again becomes expendable.

Sounds right.

Anyway, a few LNG contracts have been redirected successfully from 'unreliable' ME suppliers to America First.
Also, Big Oil got much more benefit than what they pai... errm donated for so far.

Here, presidential approval rating according to Nate Silver has started inching back up towards 40%.

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