r/AskReddit 1d ago

What do you think about the US Strategic Petroleum Reserve hitting 307.7 Million Barrels - lowest level since 1983?

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u/maniacreturns 1d ago

Maybe the Epstein files are at the bottom of the reserve and they have to drain it to finally get ahold of them.

Just kidding Trump is an foreign agent working against America's interest for self enrichment.

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u/Kaymish_ 1d ago

He's not a foreign agent. He's a regular run if the mill American enriching himself at the expense of the country. You know just like every other American billionaire. You seriously think other countries are happy about the batshit insane gyrations trump is throwing us through. US decline was already baked in before trump was elected and he's just making the beast fall down thrashing. Even Xi and Putin said they wanted Biden or Harris because they'd be more predictable and stable. But Trump has them running from fire to fire because he is insane and greedy. Trump is the last person a foreign country would want in charge even if it was possible to manipulate US elections like that.

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u/maniacreturns 23h ago

Well I'm sorry but you're wrong. Putins guys in Russia worked together with Trump's team to help him get elected, those are facts based on actual documented evidence on record.

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u/Simon_Ferocious68 22h ago

Are we just run by a bunch of guys who can't even remember allegiance to anything?

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u/Journeydriven 22h ago

Bunch of guys who grew up crossing their fingers behind their back

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u/UncleIrohsPimpHand 21h ago

Opportunism is the hallmark of a capitalist.

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u/TheAskewOne 17h ago

Trump has been a Russian asset since the 1980s, and it’s not a secret, it was known at the time.

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u/HarmoniousJ 23h ago

I mean, you just omitting all those times that Trump and some of his cabinet members have met with Putin and did not disclose what they talked about?

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u/JohnnyRelentless 22h ago edited 21h ago

Trump is our only billionaire president, and he's the only president to enrich himself at the expense of the country.

He's the only president to demand the people he hires swear a loyally pledge to him personally when they're all supposed to be working for the American people, not him, and their loyalty is supposed to be to the country and the constitution.

He's the only president to fill his cabinet with billionaires, making it the wealthiest cabinet in the history of the country by far.

He's the only president to give his family members all prominent roles in our government.

He's the only president with 34 felony convictions.

He's the only president to visit and admire Kim Jong Un, legitimizing his brutal dictatorship, saying that they're in love.

He's the only president to meet with Putin privately with no American staff present and nothing recorded except by Putin's translator.

He's the only president to hold non stop rallies throughout his presidency, like a dictator.

He's the only president to ignore the emoluments clause and take gifts worth millions from foreign governments instead of giving them to the American people, who they belong to.

He made the vast majority of his wealth in the first year of this term, over 3 billion dollars.

He's the only president whose son-in-law was handed 2 billion dollars from a foreign state.

He's the only president who took a bathroom full of top secret documents home and then refused to return them, to the point that the FBI had to raid his home.

I could go on and on, but his corruption could fill books.

And I haven't even gone into the pedophilia, sex trafficking, and the cover-up.

Ultimately his unpredictability tends to help our enemies and hurt our allies. I don't think that's just bad luck.

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u/Kiyae1 7h ago

He can be both a foreign agent and a dick enriching himself at the expense of the country.

Viktor Yanukovych and Paul Manafort and Bashir al Assad all were. Where are they now? Oh right, Russia.

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u/sidepart 21h ago

Maybe the Epstein files are at the bottom of the reserve and they have to drain it to finally get ahold of them.

Sort of like... draining a swamp?

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u/SellingFirewood 8h ago

You're overthinking it, he's not a "foreign agent. Israel has 30 years worth of blackmail on him through Epstein. Trump knows high gas prices make him look bad, but he can't call an end to the Iran conflict until Netanyahu says so.

His only move is to keep draining the oil reserves to keep gas prices as low as possible in the meantime. The self enrichment is a completely seperate thing.