Peter Gleick6d ago

More evidence of the utter stupidity of Donald Trump.

1. He's panicking because he's just realized he'll be blamed for the rise in oil prices because he's illegally bombed Iran.
2. He doesn't know the Department of Energy doesn't drill for oil.

Show threadSaareMartha
@petergleick
The US bombed Iran now because Taco=boy was humiliated by his horrible birthday parade, the millions turning out for No Kings Day and the way the other G7 readers disrespected him. He ordered the bombing to make himself feel powerful. It isn't gonna work.
Jun 23 at 7:16pmWeb
Show threadErik Haugen6d ago
@SaareMartha @petergleick I don't know if the taco thing works anymore
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Peter Gleick6d ago

More evidence of the utter stupidity of Donald Trump.

1. He's panicking because he's just realized he'll be blamed for the rise in oil prices because he's illegally bombed Iran.
2. He doesn't know the Department of Energy doesn't drill for oil.

Show threadShiitake Toast6d ago
@petergleick I find it so incomprehensible that the one person with more access to information than anyone else in the world could make so little use of it.
Show threadRob van Kan6d ago
@ShiitakeToast @petergleick He doesn't consider at all that there might be something he does not know
Show threadPeter Gleick6d ago
@ShiitakeToast The information allowed to get to him is very limited.
Show threadDiane6d ago

@petergleick @ShiitakeToast

He's also a lazy bum with no curiosity and there are frequent rumors he is unable to read.

Gabbard was considering changing the national security briefing to look like Fox news to get Trump to pay attention.

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-intelligence-briefings-tulsi-gabbard-revamp-report-1235352089/

Trump Could Get Fox News-Style Intel Briefings Because He ‘Doesn’t Read’: Report

Intelligence chief Tulsi Gabbard is reportedly considering changing Trump’s intelligence briefings after he only took them 14 times so far.

Rolling Stone
Show threadGerard Thornley6d ago
@petergleick @ShiitakeToast The information he allows to get to him is very limited.
Show threado/1MS\o ⌨️🐧 | #WeAreNatenom6d ago

@petergleick @ShiitakeToast

What has not been shown at Fox News is not relevant for him.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/gabbard-considering-ways-revamp-trumps-intelligence-briefing-rcna209805

#usPol

Gabbard considering ways to revamp Trump's intelligence briefing

One idea is to make the briefing, which according to his schedule Trump has been taking less often than his predecessors, a video that looks like Fox News.

NBC News
Show threadAlexander The 1st5d ago

@petergleick @ShiitakeToast But, like, this is basic information that anyone should already know:

- Causing war in a place infamous for making most of the oil will make a scarcity problem cause the price of oil to go up;

- The things the DoE does;

And then something one can look up on Wikipedia:

- Why the Department of Energy was created.

Show threadShiitake Toast5d ago
@AT1ST @petergleick Yeah. That's the depressing part. Even top secret information at his fingertips, and he doesn't even know the stuff a shitposter on social media could just look up!
Show threadAlexander The 1st5d ago
@ShiitakeToast @petergleick It's just more "Trump: 'Nobody knew healthcare was complicated.' Everyone else: '*Everyone* knew healthcare was complicated - it is the one of the few things we all knew!'", just with higher stakes now that the guardrails telling him "It's complicated" are being ignored.
Show threadDr. Seltsam 🌎🎶🌳6d ago
@petergleick That guy is such a fracking idiot, unbelievable.
Show threadzombiewarrior6d ago
@petergleick he somehow doesn't realize that oil prices are fixed globally?
Show thread.vad//hakara🧭6d ago
@petergleick Nobody tell him about Project Plowshare
Show threadTim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE6d ago
@petergleick Trump is doing far more to help the drive toward net zero than anyone could ever have expected him to.
Show threadHunter King6d ago
@petergleick to escape the consequences of your actions, one only needs to yell at them
Show threadNoortje Van Leeuwen6d ago

@petergleick he also doesnt know Opec influences the oil prizes....

and oil companies want to make profits, so they will not " keep oil prices low" as that would cost em .

Show threadapftwb6d ago
@Noortjevee @petergleick I'm always amazed that he thinks he can just ask the free market not to be profit motivated
Show threadNoortje Van Leeuwen6d ago
@apftwb @petergleick
Exactly that... For a person who's Siccophant cultists claim is a shrewd businessman, he knows supprisingly little about business
Show threadDusk To Don 6d ago

@Noortjevee @petergleick

. . . and lo,
the Department of Energy did stretch forth its hand, and did delve deep into the bowels of the earth; and it came to pass that the godly people of the United States were made to dwell in plenty, for they were blessed with dominion over their own oil, yea, with energy independence.

And the merchants of oil did keep their prices low, that the adversaries of the United States might not triumph.

Thus were the godly people of The US shielded full well from the travail, the sorrow, and the desolation which the God-King had wrought upon the Holy Land.

/s

#trump #iran

Show threadNoortje Van Leeuwen6d ago
@dusk @petergleick ah yes...the book of Randicus
Show threadMolly Cantrell-Kraig 🇺🇦6d ago

@dusk

this made me literally bark out a staccato burst of laughter. Thank you.

Show threadUrzl6d ago

@petergleick Capitalism was the system where the government tells all the businesses what to do with their prices, operations, etc. in a centrally planned way?

For some reason my notes from social studies said something different.

Show threadSnippety Snap (she/her)6d ago

@petergleick
He also does not understand business, in which you purchase or create goods and sell them for an amount greater than the cost of the goods.

He's telling gas stations to lose money, just like he tried to tell Walmart not to raise prices in the face of tariffs.

If he wants to impose price controls, please let him start with housing rents. Oh, wait, that would be communism.

Show threadPhil6d ago
@petergleick Looks like it's basically where it was pre-tarrifs? I guess his handlers in the oil industry are pleased.
Show threadRüdiger Kladt6d ago
@petergleick Dass der geistig unterbelichtet ist, wissen alle. Seinen Anhänger:innen ist das egal. Gleich und gleich gesellt sich gern. Und die Strippenzieher finden so eine Marionette geil.
Show threadLyla Mehta6d ago
@petergleick he’ll probably start another war & find another country to bomb or get ICE to unleash more madness
Show threadIanto Jones6d ago
@petergleick this is hilarious (outside of the whole "we're all on the same sinking ship" thing). Absolute moron with zero sense of reality.
Show threadWhispering Hek6d ago
@petergleick the intended audience is his followers, and its a message they needed to hear. However effective, they see that he's fighting for them
Show threadKnut 🏳️‍🌈 🇳🇴🧸6d ago
@petergleick I don't even look on Truth social to make sure this stuff is real anymore. If it sounds ass fucking bonkers...it's real. And it's from the leader of the free world.
Show threadaprilfollies6d ago
@praetor @petergleick
*“leader” “free” (terms and conditions may vary)
Show threadKnut 🏳️‍🌈 🇳🇴🧸6d ago
@aprilfollies @petergleick I LOVE IT! I'm go start tagging all my trump toots that way.
Show threadMistake not ...6d ago
@petergleick the fact that his main problem seems to be the optics of his crime and not the punishment says all I need to know about the USA, insufferable treacherous non-entities *spit*
Show threadDr. Oblivious6d ago
@petergleick He's not bright or forward thinking.
Show threadmodris6d ago
@petergleick Can anyone even begin to imagine what it was like growing up with this man as your father?
Show threadSaareMartha6d ago
@petergleick
The US bombed Iran now because Taco=boy was humiliated by his horrible birthday parade, the millions turning out for No Kings Day and the way the other G7 readers disrespected him. He ordered the bombing to make himself feel powerful. It isn't gonna work.
Show threadErik Haugen6d ago
@SaareMartha @petergleick I don't know if the taco thing works anymore
Show threadToni Aittoniemi6d ago
@petergleick Ducking Fumbass
Show threaddrukac6d ago
@petergleick
They're going to legislate some useless oil responsibilities into the DoE just so that idiots like Trump look less stupid.
Show threadprimalmotion6d ago
@petergleick I see only one enemy here
Show threadPhil Thane ✅6d ago
@petergleick
Also there's quite a time lag between starting to drill and gasoline appearing in gas stations.
Show threadnick5d ago
@pthane @petergleick Not if you drill in the gas station.
Show threadJeri Dansky6d ago

@petergleick #Alt4You

Two posts from Trump on TruthSocial:
1. To The Department of Energy: DRILL, BABY, DRILL!!! And I mean NOW!!!

2. posted 3 minutes earlier: EVERYONE, KEEP OIL PRICES DOWN. I'M WATCHING! YOU'RE PLAYING RIGHT INTO THE HANDS OF THE ENEMY. DON'T DO IT!

Show threadSteve Dallape ☑️ 🌎6d ago
@petergleick Still mind-boggling to me that the supposed leader of the free world has absolutely no idea how the world he supposedly leads actually works.
Show threadbytebro6d ago

@5teverin0 @petergleick

Erm, it's slightly mind-boggling to me, that ya'all have only just worked this out. Sheesh - we've been telling you since 2016, FFS.

Show threadjavensbukan6d ago

@petergleick This is the guy with the nuclear codes everyone, no need to worry.

I feel like we should probably be more worried about that, than idk, Iran?

This is truly the stupidest timeline.

Show threadGreengordon6d ago

@petergleick

To #Trump, EVERYONE is other rich and powerful people, in this case the Big Oil executives he solicited for funds.

"EVERYONE, KEEP OIL PRICES DOWN! IM WATCHING YOU!:

Show threadCabbidges6d ago
@petergleick
I love the "I'm watching", so what, oil prices going up and so are all other prices, and no it's not "wage led inflation", like everything else so far it's supply-side and price-gouging. Hiking interest rates won't help, but that's next.
Show threadrapunzellet6d ago
@petergleick has he decided who "the enemy" is yet?
Show threadMike Fraser  6d ago
@petergleick The champion of free markets doesn't understand free markets.
Show threadSpaceLifeForm6d ago

@petergleick

"We have met the enemy, and they are US."

-- Pogo

Show threadRRB6d ago

@petergleick Nobody's told him yet that they manage our nuclear arsenal.

Probably better that way.

Don't you think?

Show threadErik Haugen6d ago
@petergleick it almost looks like it worked tho 😂
Show threadErik Haugen6d ago
@petergleick Hopefully the Department of the Interior was listening 😂
Show threadGatekeeper..6d ago
@petergleick
Gas is already inching up...
Show threadLuna chan6d ago
@petergleick Will his supporters still back him when gas hits $4a gallon?
Show threadabhijith6d ago
He knows they won't and has brokered a ceasefire.

CC: @petergleick@fediscience.org
Show threadieee 754 carrot facts6d ago
@petergleick @igb oh god they're gonna frack with nukes
Show threadJames Trickle uP6d ago
@secretasianman @petergleick @igb That definitely works well at opening up fractures. What works less well is the gas/oil extracted tends to be radioactive.
Show threadieee 754 carrot facts5d ago
@opalmirror @petergleick @igb *paris hilton voice* that's hot
Show threadWyatt H Knott6d ago
@petergleick It's funny all the people in this comment thread who think the Chump doesn't understand business. He knows perfectly well that Daddy Putin owns him, and that Saudi Arabia pays him, and that they both want higher oil prices. What more does he need to know?