America First Joe

@SaysSimulation SF, Berkeley has been nuts for decades. Imagine the rot leading up to this movie. youtube.com/watch?v=oJnW0D…

@JoshYoung They were laying mines which were considered peaceful deterrents.

This sounds like the best deal ever and the most secure and stable peace deal ever. Got oil?

@SahilBloom Humans thrive for status, few are content seeing others pull ahead of them.

One of my favorite TV scenes of all time... Two lessons: 1. The saddest thing about success is realizing how few people actually wanted to see you succeed. There's nothing people love more than a fall. 2. Grow in silence. Normalize not telling anyone what's coming for you.

@UltraDane They are going to learn.

USA top 10 murder cities has rates 7 – 35X higher than Europe’s top 10. Europe’s worst city (Tallinn) at 5.5/100K dwarfs America's lowest (Montgomery) 38.7/100K on the top ten. Europeans believe it's our 2nd Amendment which causes this wild disparity.

@energy_blogger I guess than running tanks down to fumes we can expect buyers to wait for lower prices? Or will some decide they need the next load more than others?

This is from IEA OMR - May 2026 Supply can reach or exceed demand levels only by Q4-26. World will continue to draw Oil from inventory to bridge the gap between supply and demand even if tanker transits are eased via Strait of Hormuz today. #Oil iea.blob.core.windows.net/assets/2b89a47…

@OilHeadlineNews That should help futures drop into $70's at this rate.

Iran is demanding immediate access to approximately $12 billion in its own frozen assets held in Qatari banks as a precondition for signing any initial Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the United States

@Empty_America What boomers are you talking about, the top 15-20%, the rest are praying their assets last long enough to not eat cat food for dinner. Really people should visit old people in section 8 housing or other housing for older people.

The thing about boomer consumption is that it mostly happened really late in their lives. 55+, after year 2000. That may just be the pattern now, that wealth normally hits late like that for every generation. Most Gen X heirs will be 55+ when they inherit, etc.

Fall protection in electric industry laws were lax when I got started in 1988. But they became much stricter over time. Miller does a travelling demonstration with just a 6 foot fall in harness and it is frightening. The forces on your groin are tremendous especially if not suited properly.

@Callous_Boomer @CynicalPublius That last part made me chuckle. Once the weather clears I am going up my sailboat mast for inspection and to run halyards. The mast has foldout steps and I'm STILL going to be so harnessed up with two securement modes (three with the straps) it's ridiculous.

This Memorial Day I’d like to remember my friend LTC Rocky Baragona. Rocky was a West Point grad, an Ordnance/Logistics officer, a paratrooper and a profoundly gifted logistician. I served with him in the 82nd when we were both majors, he was the best airborne logistician I ever met, and he was always patient in training the new guy (me). He was not tall, he never married, his uniform was often wrinkled, his boots were muddy in garrison and his incredibly dry sense of humor threw a lot of people. But he would do anything before he let the paratroopers he supported go without food, water, ammo, serviceable gear or Level II+ medical/surgical care, right on the drop zone. If you are a logistician in the 82nd, you train to jump into an airfield seizure with what we called the “Alpha Echelon.” Enough brigade-level supplies for 48 hours get heavy-dropped or CDSed in with you, along with a surgical team and surgical equipment suite. You can make fun of us loggies all you want, but in the 82nd we were right there in the dirt with the 11Bs, and Rocky was the best at it I ever knew. Rocky’s battalion command was not in the 82nd, it was in a corps-level maintenance battalion. Rocky died in Iraq, early on in OIF, not from enemy action, but from a contracted Kuwaiti 18 wheeler running over his command HMMWV while he was in it. I highlight Rocky today not just because he was a friend, not just because he was awesome, but to also remind everyone that the military is a dangerous business no matter what you are doing, and dead is dead. Rest in peace Rocky. All the way. Airborne. And thanks for the mentorship.

I was a 6 year GSM in 1982. Plenty of first aid and casualty control training in fleet. But my first week at sea me and another guy were assigned to clean up reduction gear box. We knew nothing of CSE. Chief Engineer Annapolis blue blood saw his career flash before his eyes when we entered to start clean up. We were fine, but could have been different. RTK chemicals can pass through skin? Electrical safety? Fall protection. I can recall working at heights off Can Rahn Bay painting stacks with free over a possible deadly fall.

@Callous_Boomer @CynicalPublius Yup. I was a Nuc MM and feel we were pretty well prepared for it by the time we got to the fleet. Those young E1's fresh from A school back in the MMR? Forget it.

@WDE2011 @CynicalPublius I did 5 years at sea in USN. During my years in industry I often reflect on a real lack of industrial safety training for 18 year olds entering engine rooms for example. The yards, forget it. We always had one factor working against us, lack of adequate sleep for weeks.

@Callous_Boomer @CynicalPublius Always has been. You should see the training casualty rates in WW2 for pilot training alone.

@chigrl @biancoresearch @cnbcAsiaTV @CommodMkt

This crude disruption is so large, no one really can wrap their head around losing ~14.5M bpd, going on day 86 now. Even *IF* there is a deal, the current deal that is under discussion reportedly includes a 60 day extention of the current ceasfire. With any EXCESS inventories in global floating storage drained, and with the joint SPR drain (US is in an even worse postion due to the SPR drain during the prior administration), the cushion is gone.

On @cnbcAsiaTV this morning, @CommodMkt said, "Sell The Tweet, Buy The Molcule." Currie detailed that Trump tweeted five times that the war was effectively over, but it has not happened. The chart shows my guess of the five times. Currie is correct. If you bought the crude oil collapse every time Trump said the war is over, you made $58, even though the price is only up $27 since the war started. Not a bad trading strategy! We are currently on the 6th tweet saying that the war is over; it is still a work in progress. Is this the next great crude oil buying opportunity?

@Nick_duCat Oil futures have made little sense to me for most of this historic event. An evil empire has been affirmed over control of SOH and the world is sanguine. Even without nukes, the lunatics are still in power and have their hands on enough weapons to destroy the other producers.

Why does the market continue to believe these "peace deal" announcements when they continue to be incorrect over and over and over......

@24HourEllen After 1981 or so DUI became increasing more enforced. In the 70's open beer in car was not a guaranteed arrest in smaller towns. Pour beer out and go home or else. At least my experience in Northern NJ.

Do not fall for this pure, unadulterated ignorance. I grew up in the 80s and 90s. We were middle class. My Boomer parents never drove intoxicated. Steak dinners were a treat, not an every day meal. My parents both worked. We were latchkey kids (look it up). Houses were cheapER in the 80s and 90s, but not cheap. However, Gen X and Millennials *are* to blame for raising Gen Z adults who think they are too good to eat cut up hot dogs. We're the ones who introduced participation trophies, lawnmower parenting, and alternative choices at dinnertime.

@jonatanpallesen @elonmusk @alx @springsteen Same for DeNiro, just miserable SOB's.

People love the feel good energy of Bruce Springsteen's music, but the lyrics are ruined by him being a lame America-hating lib. Why not just make a patriotic song about America in Born in the USA, when that is the clearly music you made? Why not just make happy lyrics about real Glory Days, instead of a depressing mess? A song that Springsteen was able to make without irony though, is one about him having sex with underage girls when he was 34 years old. Hey, little girl, is your daddy home? Did he go away and leave you all alone? I got a bad desire

This bitch Bruce @Springsteen complaining about the ‘evil’ rich man Elon Musk “killing” the poorest children in the world because fraud at USAID was ended. You could do a lot with $1.2 billion…

@JoshYoung Everyone is way too optimistic about oil supply over next 6-12 months at least.

If there's no deal, and the Strait of Hormuz is still closed, why is oil -4.5%?

@curtdoolittle I travelled from NJ to Hunts Point for year from 1980-81. Burned out stolen cars in the morning cleared away by end of day. Same every day. Breaking down in day light was a risk as well. Hood open, thieves would appear out of no where.

(Memories, Lessons) Getting a flat tire at 3:00 am on the Cross Bronx Expressway in the late 1970s. America's dark period of progressivism started by Johnson's "great society" program in the 60s. I Never changed a tire faster in my life. Why? I lived in CT and my college girlfriend lived in Westchester County NY. HISTORY LESSON "It can happen here. It did happen here." My flat-tire memory at 3 a.m. on the Cross Bronx puts us right in the middle of that landscape. It was a different city then—decaying infrastructure, high crime, and visible abandonment were the norm in those neighborhoods, not the exception. The recovery that started in the ’80s and accelerated later is why today’s Bronx looks nothing like the one you drove through. The late 1970s—especially around the Cross Bronx Expressway and the South Bronx—were the peak of New York City’s urban decay, fiscal crisis, arson wave, and crime surge. By the mid-to-late ’70s, the South Bronx had lost over 300,000 residents in a decade, with entire blocks abandoned and then torched in what became known as the “Decade of Fire.” Over 80% of the housing stock in some areas was destroyed or burned between 1970 and 1980, displacing a quarter-million people—mostly through arson-for-insurance scams by landlords, combined with redlining, disinvestment, and the earlier disruption from the Cross Bronx Expressway itself. Burned-out cars, stripped hulks, and smoldering buildings were everyday sights along highways and side streets. Crime had exploded: the Bronx’s murder rate nearly tripled between 1967 and 1972 and stayed brutally high through the decade, part of a citywide wave that made 1980 the worst crime year on record. The phrase “The Bronx is burning” (immortalized during the 1977 World Series) wasn’t hype—it was literal. President Carter’s 1977 motorcade through Charlotte Street captured the national image: row after row of charred, boarded-up buildings surrounded by rubble.

A ‘gusher of oil that could come out’… ‘Negative inflation’…. 🇺🇸☠️😂

@JoshYoung @HyperliquidX Imagine the internet in the time of the Civil War, WWI or WWII.

Trump Iran deal: big hat, no cattle?

@GadSaad We brought civilization to stone age populations, we are not going to give it up to these inbred pedophiles from 7th century.

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@thehealthb0t Spiking lower the PH can help stop excess acid. A lemon helps sometimes.

Tucker Carlson’s face says it all as Senator Ron Johnson reveals he cured his acid reflux with hydrochloric acid after years on Zantac, Prilosec, and Nexium. The medical industry wants you to believe heartburn comes from too much acid.