How much is your local "Trump at the Pump Tax?"

I think you might be giving DJT credit for doing something that didn't lose money hand over fist, I have my doubts he could teach anyone anything, certainly not something that made Epstein rich

T1 Terry

 

He seems to be pretty good at teaching some weak minded people how to act like HIM.....

Gas is back over $3 a gallon on free soil although my beloved home state of Indiana temporarily suspended its 7% state gasoline usage tax and 36-cent gasoline excise tax.
I was and able to score a $2.799 fill up on my last visit to the home sod before Schrödinger’s War" flared back up.
I mean, IRAN?
NOT KEEPING THEIR WORD?
who knew??

I also scored some <$3 e15 in Nashville on my way back south, but since the API rules over the Southeast US fuel supply I'm back down to E10. and my last fill-up was $3.299.

Since my current daily driver is newer than 2012, it's rated for E15 without needing the magic yellow gas cap.

 

Not sure about acting like him, more being blind to the B/S that dribbles out of his mouth and his fingers on his social platform. For all his blow hard crap about being wealthy beyond imagination, it is reported he couldn't scrape together enough to lodge the bond to appeal the last lot of legal battles that have not gone well for him .....

As far as IRAN not keeping their word, wasn't it Israel that bombed Lebanon before the ink was even put to paper regarding the peace deal?

T1 Terry

 

That's what I get for actually trying to READ the document.
I was under the impression that Israel was not a signatory to the MOU that was drafted to end the conflict with Iran.

If you want to slag Trump for something more legitimate then that maybe try some of his shakedown musings for keeping the strait open?

 

I don't think DJT is all that keen on the straights reopening while the US has oil to sell at top prices to countries that are desperate for it.
DJT went into this war, shoulder to shoulder with Bibi Netanyahu, if he can't stop Israel from bombing sensitive to Iran countries, then he can not offer any sort of a peace deal and he knows it .....
DJT knows he has very little time left to make as much money as he can, and that is all he is interested in, what's in it for DJT .....

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If that is his real motive then he's as incompetent at that as he is in running casinos.
You need a much bigger idiot than DJT to sustain oil prices above $120 a barrel.....
It's below $80 at present.

That's somewhat generous.
TDS sufferers usually say that DJT was 'played' by Bibi.

Either way, the Israelis were 'male chicken blocked' from participating in the MOU, just like they were in the idiotic JCPOA - so I do not blame them for not pausing their actions against the terrorists in Lebanon.
All of that is about as predictable as the zany conspiracy theories following a the sudden death of a US politician.

DJT is an 80-year old billionaire with some pretty significant health issues.
Sorry, but I'm not buying into 'money' being his North Star.
He's interested in what every lame-duck US POTUS is interested in:
Legacy.

It's ISRAEL that's under the time clock.
They're seeing actual, for-real, antisemitism in the US that would warm the hearts of a 1930's German leader and they know that the clock is ticking down to their being left 'on their own'......again!
The benefit to this would be even closer cooperation with the Sunni Gulf nations - AND Russia.

People here in the US do not fully appreciate the level of cooperation that exists between those two nations - and Russia is REALLY REALLY riding the struggle bus these days.


Interesting times ahead......

 

Antisemitism and protesting Bibi’s right wing government are two different things. The only antisemitism I see is from some magas. Sometimes they march together, sometimes they appear one by one.
You know Jesus also protested the powers in charge, and it wasn’t antisemitism. .

 

... what Bible are you reading...
Christ did not protest...
nor was he for or against any government....

"The phrase “Render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar’s” comes from the Gospel of Mark 12:17 (Matthew 22:21, Luke 20:25) and is part of Jesus’ response to a trap set by the Pharisees and Herodians to see if He would oppose paying taxes to Rome"


"According to the Gospel of Luke, the journey of Mary and Joseph to Bethlehem was prompted by a Roman imperial decree from Emperor Augustus ordering a general registration of the entire inhabited world (Luke 2:1–3) Updated American Standard Version"


13 1-2 Every Christian ought to obey the civil authorities, for all legitimate authority is derived from God’s authority, and the existing authority is appointed under God. To oppose authority then is to oppose God, and such opposition is bound to be punished. Romans 13


I would post this only to refute the prior misguided post - the Bible or Christ has no place in a nonsensical thread like this and I probably will refrain from any more post on this misguided thread.


I know how to use the ignore function to ignore posters but suggest an ignore function for threads like this one would be a wonderful addition to the Forum tools

 

If you don’t know Jesus protested the Pharisees and Israelites in power, you are in some kind of bubble or something. Saying powers in charge would not have meant the Roman Empire, it required a minimal understanding of the Gospel. .
I was responding to another comment made here, I didn’t start it about antisemitism, go take up your complaints to him who started it.

 

I refer to the ignore user feature as a squelch knob.
It lowers the noise floor in threads that I find useful or entertaining.
I myself use it very rarely because I do not give many people the power to bother - especially in print.
I can ignore threads quite easily because normally I just see the title.
If I get duped into opening an idiotic thread with a 'normie' sounding title then I back out and mark it down as an intellectual or entertainment hazard and navigate around it in the future.

Two points of disagreement, with all due respect.

If Evangelical Christians are to minister to, or at least be a beacon for non Christians then we have a clear mandate to take the 'good news' out to people who either didn't get the memo, or didn't "GET" the memo.
That doesn't happen in a church.
I'm sure I read about this somewhere in my Bible translation.
We are supposed to get out of our churches with the good news.

..."Nor do they light a lamp and put it under a basket, but on a lampstand, and it gives light to all who are in the house"

SO....
Since we happen to be in the Christian New Testament anyway......
I seem to recall a series of very public and very harsh protestations BY Jesus AND against the religious, social, and moral practices of.......the Pharisees (and others.)
A series of woes?

Do you remember the famous Pharisee Pontius Pilate?
No?
I don't either.
Pilate was not a Pharisee or a member of the Sanhedrin.
He was a Roman official—specifically, the Roman prefect of the Roman province of Judaea under a Roman emperor (Tiberius?)
Caesar wasn't a religious OR a civil leader but happened to be depicted on their money - which provided for a conflict between Roman imperial worship and Jewish religious law. In the famous biblical "Render unto Caesar" account, Jesus was not protesting against either one but rather he was trying to teach a lesson about earthly versus divine allegiance - something that we humans struggle with yet today.

This bears directly on the disturbing uptick in antisemitism that seems to be spreading in America both in the far right AND in the far left.
An antisemite is a person who harbors prejudice, hostility, or hatred toward Jewish people. People like Bernie Sanders, Chuck Schumer, Jon Ossoff.

This is WHY when they were laying down the beam ends of the US government in the Constitution they established the Establishment Clause. They have much the same thing in Israel in practice which is why more than 20% of its citizens and close to 10% of its parliament.....are Palestinian.

The "nation" of Palestine is like the nation of Kurd.
Both are stateless ethnic groups revealing a double standard in how the struggles for self-determination are treated in the region, and by some "useful idiots" here in the US....AGAIN, on both sides.