Max Powers

I’m very confused about the number of people who think “property tax” is taxes you pay for services you consume instead of a made up asset value the county used to collateralize a bond offering so they could hire 8,000 administrators for a school with a 40% literacy rate.

The Hormuz crisis is the precipitating factor in the current energy crisis, but the underlying cause is too little oil and gas production outside the Persian Gulf. Had the world spent the past decade building the oil, gas, LNG, pipeline, and fertilizer infrastructure that engineers designed and companies proposed, the Hormuz crisis would still be a serious geopolitical event, but it would not threaten to cause a recession. North America — The Atlantic Coast Pipeline, a 600-mile natural gas line from West Virginia to North Carolina, saw its cost double from $4.5 billion to $8 billion during years of environmental litigation before Duke Energy and Dominion Energy cancelled it in July 2020. — The Constitution Pipeline from Pennsylvania to New York died the same year. — The PennEast Pipeline won its case at the United States Supreme Court in 2021 and still could not get built because New Jersey refused to issue state permits. — In Canada, TransCanada abandoned the $15.7 billion Energy East pipeline in 2017 after the National Energy Board required an unprecedented review of upstream and downstream emissions. — In January 2024, the Biden administration paused all pending approvals for LNG export terminals shipping to non-free-trade-agreement countries, freezing projects representing tens of billions of cubic feet per day of potential capacity. — Venture Global’s CP2 terminal in Louisiana, designed for 20 million tonnes per annum, sat in regulatory limbo for over a year. — NextDecade’s Rio Grande LNG in Texas, with 48 MTPA of planned capacity, stalled alongside it. — PTT Global Chemical’s proposed $10 billion ethane cracker in Belmont County, Ohio, first announced in 2015, remains on indefinite hold after failing to attract financing partners amid climate-driven investor sentiment. — Across the US Gulf Coast, nearly 60% of planned plastic and petrochemical production projects sit on hold. — LNG Canada, the Shell-led terminal at Kitimat, British Columbia, took over six years from construction start to first cargo, with its pipeline running 263% over budget. Environmental review, Indigenous disputes, and contractor cost escalation all contributed. — Pieridae Energy’s Goldboro LNG project in Nova Scotia, a 10 MTPA facility first proposed in 2012, was abandoned in November 2023 after more than a decade of permitting and financing obstacles. Australia — Australia’s Santos’s Barossa gas project was halted midway through construction after a Federal Court ruling overturned its environmental approval. — Woodside’s Scarborough project faces ongoing litigation from the Australian Conservation Foundation seeking to block it on climate grounds. Africa — Perhaps nowhere has the damage been more consequential than in Africa. At COP26 in 2021, wealthy nations pledged to halt overseas development finance for gas projects, a commitment that fell hardest on the continent least responsible for climate change and most in need of energy infrastructure. — The World Bank stopped financing oil and gas extraction in 2019 and imposed restrictive conditions on downstream gas projects. — The European Investment Bank announced a complete ban on unabated fossil fuel financing by the end of 2021, with its president declaring that “gas is over.” — At least 21 other development finance institutions followed suit. As a result: — TotalEnergies’ Mozambique LNG project sat under force majeure for four and a half years after the UK Export Credit Agency and other backers withdrew climate-motivated financing. — The East African Crude Oil Pipeline lost financing commitments from more than 30 major international banks under pressure from climatists. Europe — France prevented the completion of a third gas interconnector with Spain, citing climate neutrality goals. — The United Kingdom imposed a moratorium on fracking in 2019 despite sitting atop one of Europe’s most promising shale gas formations. — Germany, which shuttered its last three nuclear plants in April 2023, compounded its gas dependency by refusing to develop domestic shale resources. — CF Industries permanently shut the UK’s largest ammonia plant at Billingham, a facility that also produced 60% of Britain’s food-grade CO2. — Yara International curtailed output across plants in France, Italy, and Belgium before permanently closing its 400,000 tonne per year ammonia facility at Tertre, Belgium, in October 2024. These closures occurred because European climate policy made gas too expensive for the domestic industry to survive.

@SZBishop77 Wow, so you were the fat kid. You know what they say, once a fat kid always a fat kid (they’re always in there somewhere).

@greylightcap So childish.

How can you possibly turnaround a state with voters believing this nonsense? Incredible in this Information age that people can be this misinformed and ignorant. It’s shocking

@SZBishop77 You posting on X.

@greylightcap How many hours did you spend composing your manifesto? 🤣

@SZBishop77 That’s all you do.

@greylightcap @KYRRadio LMAO. That's a lot of projection. I can't imagine wasting a Sunday afternoon shouting into the wind like this.

Says the person defending and advocating for the Democrat 2026 platform so far: - America is stolen land and we can’t have borders - if we don’t have borders, everyone is allowed to come here - if anyone is here, they’re allowed to access taxpayer funded services - because we shouldn’t have borders, we shouldn’t enforce immigration laws - America must be subjected to tariffs but cannot impose tariffs - Muslims can take over public spaces to pray but conservative groups cannot have high school or college clubs - you aren’t smart enough to homeschool your kids so you must send them to public schools where they won’t learn to read, do arithmetic, or think critically - the Department of Education is sacred - but kids will be taken out side to protest and shown sexually explicit materials - biological males can be women - women are a protected class and need special treatment, including trans women - you’re not paying enough in taxes - voting is a constitutional right and should have no requirements - gun ownership is a constitutional right that should be abolished, but until then should be highly restrictive and limited - women are smarter than men and that’s why so many of them get more college degrees than men - women are incapable of obtaining a valid ID to vote - law enforcement officers are going to be held accountable for enforcing the law - former military officers cannot be held accountable for violating the rules - going after political opponents, even if they broke the law, is illegal - as soon as Democrats are in power, they will go after their political opponents - using laws to prosecute ICE protesters is wrong - using laws to prosecute pro-life nuns is correct - uncovering fraud in NGOs, government agencies, welfare is wrong - wealth tax for “rich” people - there shouldn’t be billionaires - owning 4 homes doesn’t mean someone is rich - Republicans are racists - it’s okay to say racist things to black and brown Republicans and law enforcement - the Trump admin is covering up for pedophiles - the Biden admin couldn’t do anything with the Epstein files - we shouldn’t spend any money on detention centers for ICE - we should spend more money of government programs without fixing the fraud (see above) - Abolish ICE - Abolish the police - criminals aren’t bad, just misunderstood* - *unless they’re white, Right, or Christian - trans people are the real victims of trans killing people - it’s okay to vote “not guilty” if the defendant agrees with your politics or has your skin color - it’s okay to release violent criminals back on the streets if they’ve been arrested multiple times - it’s okay to hit law enforcement with your vehicle as long as you say “I’m not mad at you” first - understand that Jesus said “love everybody, welcome the stranger” but ignore everything else Jesus and the Bible said And that’s just off the top of my head. I’m sure I missed a few.

@greylightcap @KYRRadio LMAO. Riiight. @greylightcap is a real brainiac.

@SZBishop77 Will do. You keep watching CNN and the view. Once again you are proving my point, individual journalism (X, podcasts, Substack) has over taken mainstream. Fox is controlled opposition.

@KYRRadio @greylightcap Keep getting your info from X 🤣

Susie you’re hysterically hypocritically pissing into the wind and angry at the wrong people because habitually false mainstream propaganda wants you to be. You are only paying attention to one side, unfortunately it’s the side that is guilty of worse than you are accusing. If you can’t question mainstream media after covid and the 2020 election to think for yourself, you are lost and only echo talking points.

@KYRRadio You suppport the people who decided that Trump is above the law. Sit this one down.

@ekwufinance China has 3 times the debt the US does and it's not held by foreign countries. China would also have to run deficits, which is difficult as a net exporter. Petrodollar is less important after GFC exploded the EuroDollar market. Losing world reserve currency is not likely.

Trump: losing world reserve currency would be worse than losing a major war, we wouldn't be the same country anymore And yet, it looks like the US is heading toward both. - It has suffered a humiliating defeat against Iran - Is about to lose the petrodollar The petrodollar system only works as long as the US can enforce it... militarily and politically. That was always the deal. Security in exchange for oil being sold in USD and surpluses being recycled into US assets. The GCC are quickly realizing that they got a target on their back instead of security. This means new alliances emerge, new deals are being made... multipolarity sets in That’s exactly what we are seeing now. - China is already pushing the yuan as an alternative. - yuan foreign bond issuance is surging 3x yoy - Iran demanding yuan for Hormuz transit Step by step, settlement moves away from USD. Less dollar demand -> less recycling into Treasuries -> higher yields -> more pressure on the system

@JustinWolfers @WAR527 About those customers….

Immigrants weren’t just filling existing jobs; they were helping create them. That’s Econ 101: jobs are not a fixed pie. More people means more customers, more demand, more businesses expanding, and yes, more hiring.

𝐊𝐎𝐍𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐍𝐓𝐈𝐍 𝐊𝐈𝐒𝐈𝐍 𝐉𝐔𝐒𝐓 𝐄𝐗𝐏𝐋𝐀𝐈𝐍𝐄𝐃 𝐈𝐒𝐋𝐀𝐌𝐈𝐒𝐓 𝐓𝐄𝐑𝐑𝐎𝐑𝐈𝐒𝐌 𝐖𝐈𝐓𝐇 𝐀𝐍 𝐀𝐏𝐏𝐋𝐄 𝐀𝐍𝐀𝐋𝐎𝐆𝐘 — 𝐀𝐍𝐃 𝐈𝐓’𝐒 𝐏𝐄𝐑𝐅𝐄𝐂𝐓 Konstantin Kisin constructed one of the most airtight analogies I’ve ever heard for why Western governments refuse to confront Islamist terrorism honestly. He opens with a premise: 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘳𝘦𝘥 𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘭𝘦𝘴, 𝘨𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘯 𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘭𝘦𝘴, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘺𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘰𝘸 𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘭𝘦𝘴. A small percentage of green apples are toxic and can k!ll people. If you’re the public health authority, what do you do? You devote resources to identifying the toxic ones, crack down on distribution, and maybe pause importing green apples until you can separate the bad from the good. But what if you spent the last 𝟐𝟎 𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐬 insisting all apples are the same? That anyone questioning green apples is a bigot? That importing them without checks is a moral imperative? Then toxic green apples start k!lling people — 𝐨𝐧 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐰𝐚𝐭𝐜𝐡. Now you have a choice. Admit you were wrong and that your policies got people k!lled. Or double down and scream that 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘥𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘰𝘧 𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘭𝘦𝘴 𝘪𝘴 𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘨𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘴𝘵 𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘨𝘵𝘩 and that 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘵𝘰𝘹𝘪𝘤𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘰𝘧 𝘨𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘯 𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘭𝘦𝘴 𝘩𝘢𝘴 𝘯𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘰 𝘥𝘰 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘮 𝘣𝘦𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘨𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘯. That’s exactly what they chose. 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫-𝐮𝐩 𝐢𝐬𝐧’𝐭 𝐢𝐠𝐧𝐨𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞. 𝐈𝐭’𝐬 𝐬𝐞𝐥𝐟-𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧.

@SZBishop77 Actually it’s the very opposite. The world was laughing under puppet Biden. You are boring. Bye bye. 👋

@greylightcap Russia and China are helping Iran. Heck, Trump helped Iran when he removed sanctions on their oil. He doesn't control anything. The whole world is laughing at him and how weak we are because of him.

MAGA @BrandiKruse supports the president who has spent $30 billion in the last month on a war nobody voted for.

@SZBishop77 It’s filed right next to the Ukraine and Iraq plan.

@greylightcap YOU said there's a plan. Is it filed with the plan to replace the ACA?

@SZBishop77 I like that Trump has removed China (more specifically the CCP) from the western hemisphere, not entirely but working on it. Trump now controls CCP oil ahead of negotiations with Xi in a month. Do I agree with War in Iran, no but I understand why it is being done.

@greylightcap It's s-t-r-a-i-t, idiot. What plan? I'll wait right here.

In the event Iran closed the straights the US has had a plan since the 70’s. This is a known known, except to you apparently. It strange how the left argued that higher gas prices was responsible price to pay for the war in Ukraine and now they freak out about getting rid of the largest sponsor of terror.

@greylightcap The "straights?" 🤣 So you're saying the US has wanted to close the Strait of Hormuz since the 1970s. HUH? Iran has threatened to close the Strait for decades. Trump is the only one stupid enough to attack without a plan for it. Dude, read something, anything that isn't a meme.

@SZBishop77 McCain and Graham are the worst. War mongers and McCain for he vote on Obama Care. Trump did not think he could just Venezuela Iran, but your media overlords want you to think that. The US has had plans in place for the closure of the straights since the 70’s. Nice try though. 😂

@greylightcap Where's my protest check? 🙄No one but uneducated right-wing extremists think Trump is popular. John McCain & Lindsay Graham used to chant "bomb bomb bomb, bomb bomb Iran." Europe doesn't like it because it's idiotic. Trump thought he could swoop in & take the oil, like Venezuela

@SZBishop77 Haha is that what I’m doing?

@greylightcap It's hilarious you're stalking me and trying to spam my posts, though.

Does anyone except the truly lost buy that “no kings” is organic and not paid actors. Only the weak minded believe any it. I did not ignore context but you did. The point is, Dems have been talking about going to war with Iran for over 50 yrs, Trump does it and weak minded drones like you freak out. Europeans don’t like it because they are left out of it, specifically Britain. The point is, anything Trump does you freak out, which weakens your outrage and moral high ground.

@greylightcap You're the one who ignored the context of the clip, which was the US would counterattack if Iran bombed Israel with a nuke. Does anyone buy your bs? (rhetorical)

@SZBishop77 You are seriously doubting Dems and specifically Hilary wanted to go to war with Iran. Wow. You’re in deep.

@greylightcap Uhhhhhhh, when did Iran attack Israel with a nuclear bomb? That's the context of the question. Are you really this stupid?