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[sonofdaxjones]

Retribution for Cuellar's border stance/comments?

Wouldn't put anything past Joe "Stalin" Biden and Herr Garland.

[Spracne]

I have to say, I doubt Jessica Cisneros would have the FBI turning up at her house.

But I'm glad Cuellar got re-elected so we could protect that dem seat from going red.

https://www.texastribune.org/2022/01/19/henry-cuellar-fbi/

Always blows my mind to see her name out in the wild. Well, sort of her name. Her actual name is Justicia.

[Kat Kid]

did not know that.  I only loosely followed the race and was mostly posting to try and annoy sys.

[Spracne]

did not know that.  I only loosely followed the race and was mostly posting to try and annoy sys.

She was in my law school class, section, and subsection. We were pretty tight back then. I will reserve any further details.

Edit: to be clear, we never knew each other in the biblical sense.

[mocat]

Justicia is an incred lawyer name

[Kat Kid]

Justicia is an incred lawyer name

absolutely

[catastrophe]

Lawyer Milloy comes to mind, but I guess he cared more about money than justice.

[sys]

did not know that.  I only loosely followed the race and was mostly posting to try and annoy sys.

She was in my law school class, section, and subsection. We were pretty tight back then. I will reserve any further details.

Edit: to be clear, we never knew each other in the biblical sense.

decent chance you'll soon be the poster with the closest relationship to a member of congress (pending sd's disclosure of whatever weirdo reason he doesn't detest ben sasse like everyone else in the world).

[Spracne]

did not know that.  I only loosely followed the race and was mostly posting to try and annoy sys.

She was in my law school class, section, and subsection. We were pretty tight back then. I will reserve any further details.

Edit: to be clear, we never knew each other in the biblical sense.

decent chance you'll soon be the poster with the closest relationship to a member of congress (pending sd's disclosure of whatever weirdo reason he doesn't detest ben sasse like everyone else in the world).

Surprising no one, this is true.

[Kat Kid]

Will you endorse?

[Spracne]

Will you endorse?

Well, I don't necessarily agree with her platform. But if she offers me a chief of staff role, I'm proven to be morally flexible.

[BIG APPLE CAT]

did not know that.  I only loosely followed the race and was mostly posting to try and annoy sys.

She was in my law school class, section, and subsection. We were pretty tight back then. I will reserve any further details.

Edit: to be clear, we never knew each other in the biblical sense.

I, for one, choose to believe Spracne when he says they never smashed b/c i know that a suboptimal tooth:gum ratio is a non-starter for him.

[sys]

doesn't sound like cuellar is planning to resign.  which, i don't really know all the pertinent details on special elections and emergency filing deadlines and whatnot, but i think is probably good for cisneros?  hard to say.

https://twitter.com/evanasmith/status/1484703206244560899

[steve dave]

agreed, hard to say

[kim carnes]

https://www.yahoo.com/news/biden-must-release-nearly-old-165645072.html

liz warren: we need this to “jumpstart our economy”

[Cire]

rough ridin' do it old man


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[sys]

today would be a great day for president biden and vice president harris to #telllizwarrentofuckoff

[chum1]

Fox News . . . THANK YOU!!!

Lol

https://twitter.com/FoxNews/status/1488691136709332993

[sys]

people, presumably unironically, voted for this man.

https://twitter.com/SenSanders/status/1493761236705718272

[Kat Kid]

I mean we are both loaded up on oil stonks for a reason and that is because these companies are not investing in cap x they are doing stock buybacks and dividends and keeping supply low.

[sys]

I mean we are both loaded up on oil stonks for a reason and that is because these companies are not investing in cap x they are doing stock buybacks and dividends and keeping supply low.

i'm investing on the back of seven years of low oil prices, losses and depressed profits have which i believe have resulted in cyclical underinvestment in e&p that will take years to resolve.  not on the thesis that the world's non-state owned oil companies can collude to influence pricing on the back of the 20% of the world's output that they control.

[sys]

i mean, the idea of that oil companies, of all industries, are price makers rather than price takers is... laughable isn't a strong enough word.  i wish i had the vocabulary to express how stupid that thought is.

[sys]

beautiful.  a work of art.

https://twitter.com/wwwojtekk/status/1481618350002388996

[Kat Kid]

I mean we are both loaded up on oil stonks for a reason and that is because these companies are not investing in cap x they are doing stock buybacks and dividends and keeping supply low.

i'm investing on the back of seven years of low oil prices, losses and depressed profits have which i believe have resulted in cyclical underinvestment in e&p that will take years to resolve.  not on the thesis that the world's non-state owned oil companies can collude to influence pricing on the back of the 20% of the world's output that they control.

I don't disagree with any of that. OPEC is a cartel that is restricting supply too, but every single oil exec is saying "we are not spending on cap ex, we are not rushing back out there, we are focused on shareholder returns etc.

A lot of companies have breakevens at $40-$50 below current crude prices. I don't think Bernie had some perfect tweet, but oil companies are not going to go in to drill baby drill mode and fix the supply issues (they can't completely fix it anyways) for a number of reasons, one of which is the incredible profits.

[Kat Kid]

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-02-18/shale-wildcatters-send-bullish-oil-price-signal-with-output-restraint

I can't read it, but the headline and subhead are enough to get the point.