Jasin wrote on Jan 6
th, 2026 at 3:21pm:
Watch out Gordon. They'll get your grammar next.
They don't have much to go on of late.
They're running on fumes.
We can look at price trends, read the OPEC reports and meeting notes, and track supply levels through trade routes like Singapore to get a full picture.
But you lot just want to praise Trump and hand him the credit so you can feel like you're "winning", and you'll ignore all of that anyway, won't you?
So what's the point?
There is some truth here. US production is up, but OPEC hasn't meaningfully cut supply either. The market is oversupplied. People far more knowledgeable than I am on this are arguing that OPEC is deliberately keeping prices low to hurt US producers, forcing them to curb output as profitability falls, so prices can rise again later.
Plus, with the economic damage Trump has been doing at home and abroad with his tariffs and trade wars, consumption has been flat and even dropped in some places.
So he has had some hand to play in these temporary price drops, but like many of the rare positives of his 2nd term so far, it's been purely by accident.
But, once again, that doesn't reinforce what the faithful already want to believe. Which brings me back to the same question, what's the point in actually trying to have a good-faith discussion on the topic?
In the few short weeks I was away, the Trump faithful seem to have become even more detached from reality and even more deranged.
I suppose being told they'd be "tired of winning", yet repeatedly having to swallow loss after loss, being forced to defend paedophiles, excuse the erosion of civil liberties, personal freedoms and constitutional rights, and now pivot from praising Trump as a "President of peace" to justifying him as a president of US aggression and war, has finally caught up with them.
So now they have to invent wins, and more importantly, ignore their losses, just to keep going.
The cope is strong with this lot.
Are we at the stage where the only option is to nod politely, mutter a quiet "OK boomer", and try to get through Christmas lunch in peace?