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Oh duh this is it. Pasadena, TX, just southeast of Houston, the starting point of the Colonial pipeline which runs all the way up the east coast. Their NC branch terminates one exit down the freeway from me here in Charlotte. The pipeline carries a ton of refined products incl Jet-A and gasoline.

Tim@mckenna.bsky.social

Pasadena Texas?

I’ll admit my macroeconomic outlook didn’t include a Leeroy Jenkins bombing campaign against Iran with no plan whatsoever for securing Hormuz. And you know what, that’s on me.

Marco ♨️@mako112.bsky.social

It's so funny how you have spent the last 6 months telling people that the signs for an economic downturn weren't there (because they weren't, not contradicting you) and then Trump personally decided to prove you wrong.

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One lesson of the tariffs was that even when Trump does things that SHOULD cause a downturn, the rest of the world could simply choose not to do that. But he found a way to make everybody else say "you know what, FINE"

Or how I thought the spring of 2026 was going to go in late February of this year 😅

Every time I am tempted to have strong opinions about the future I try to remember how I thought the bush admin was going to go as of late August 2001, or the plans I was making for the summer of 2020.

All of the younger people I know that voted for trump, voted for him because of inflation. Let's see how that works out