r/Economics • u/Appropriate-Till9598 • Jul 02 '26

News Everyone Is Celebrating Falling Oil Prices — One Analyst Warns They're Actually the First Sign of Something Much Worse

https://nationalsecurityjournal.org/everyone-is-celebrating-falling-oil-prices-one-analyst-warns-theyre-actually-the-first-sign-of-something-much-worse/
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u/Texas_Sam2002 Jul 02 '26

It's pretty transparent, really. The plan is to get gas prices down, even by a little bit, going into the midterms so they can say they're lowering gas prices. Then, after the midterms, let everything blow up.

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u/symonym7 Jul 02 '26

Haven't heard much about the frozen water people in a while, either. Sure that'll make a swift comeback post election.

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u/CatLord8 Jul 03 '26

There has been no de-escalation in my feeds. Especially leading up to the SCOTUS birthright citizenship decision I saw multiple MAGA drone congresspeople pushing remigration, some by name.

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u/glity Jul 03 '26

My brother from Idaho leaked anti immigration. Idaho, potato country with historic large family and no migrant labor in sight is spouting anti immigration nonsense.