Daily News Thread 3/26

Also: with a stronger GOP Senate, when the next liberal SCOTUS Justice drops they can be easily replaced leaving a 6-3 Republican court system, further wrecking Unions over the long term.

Democrats will probably take the house in 2018 but the senate map this cycle so strongly favors republicans that democrats capturing that chamber seems almost impossible.

Or Republicans hang onto both because Trump hammers down the "fuck china" card and keeps their swath of votes in the midwest.

The party of the sitting president almost always looses ground in midterm elections, and Trump is uniquely unpopular.
Look at the results of recent special elections. Things are not looking good for the GOP.
Plus this whole Muller investigation is unlikely to conclude favorably, that will be a further hit to Trump's reputation and the Republican brand.

user can you tell us more, i dont know jack shit about this

Midterm elections are also slightly older and have a more conservative voter base, with Trump's trade actions he has a clear edge. He didn't do the steel tariffs for nothing, he did it to help Republicans in those districts.

And the Mueller investigation is 100% in his pocket because he and Mueller have the same goals, already Trump has blamed Obama for being weak on Russian hacking on Twitter and Mueller will probably back him up on that. The end result will be Mueller suggesting some sort of new domestic censorship/data/internet regulations which Trump will happily endorse and sign. Americans will eat it up and simply blame Russia (and China) for everything bad.

This doesn't leave Democrats with many cards to play other than social justice ones, which don't work in swing districts.

Back in 2014 the Saudis realized that changes in technology meant they'd loose marketshare. So they didn't cut production in order to cause an oil glut and crash the price, fucking over Russia in particular. American companies had insulation though increased use of ethanol and natural gas in America. Meanwhile, Petrolchina ran out of money and had to essentially declare bankruptcy which they survived but only because the Chinese government effectively bailed them all out. In consolation, the Saudis agreed to sell some oil in Yuans not USD. It isn't much when China's economy itself is based off a weak Yuan (a good Yuan makes their export-driven economy noncompetitive) and their state oil company had to shed a lot of assets and land in order to continue existing. The Saudis won that battle, although they took some losses too (less money leading to budget cuts leading to the situation in the Riadayh hotel).

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also thanks user

The time you wasted posting there could have been used for anything else.

from earlier this year

reuters.com/article/us-saudi-arrests-hotel/saudi-hotel-to-reopen-after-being-used-as-prison-in-corruption-purge-idUSKBN1F41FE

tl;dr with budget cuts came saudis having a problem with the new saudi king so they were all imprisoned in a 5-star hotel until a solution was found