Frank wrote on Mar 31
st, 2026 at 6:11pm:
You talk as if the world was stable until Trump came 8along and will be stable again when he's gone.
That framing only works if you ignore what actually happens every time the US leans hard into deregulation and short-termism. The global economy is structurally tied to the United States, so when it stumbles, everyone feels it, whether that's the Dot-com bubble or the Global Financial Crisis.
In his first term, Trump followed that same playbook, aggressive deregulation, tax cuts skewed upward, and economic sugar hits that masked underlying fragility. He got politically lucky that COVID-19 pandemic became the dominant economic story before the longer-term consequences fully surfaced.
This time, it's worse. It's not just economic mismanagement, it's compounded by foreign policy recklessness, particularly with Iran. Whether through ignorance or indifference, the risks were obvious, and now, as things deteriorate, even his own media allies are scrambling to reframe him as a victim who "wasn't properly briefed". That excuse alone tells you everything about the level of accountability at play.
Quote:You talk as if hydrocarbons were the only finite resource and that they would be gone any minute.
No, what was actually said is simple, oil is finite, and that reality is a rational argument for transitioning to renewables. That's not panic, it's baseline economic and environmental literacy. You made the rest up.
Quote:And so panic is your response to everything. Panic about Trump, panic about oil.
Calling it "panic" is just a way to dismiss warnings that have, repeatedly, proven accurate. These weren't hysterical predictions, they were foreseeable outcomes. We warned you, you didn't listen and now you're running from those warnings coming true.
Quote:You never panic about brutal Islamofascists, about shifty lying China, about rapid population replacement, about mass child mutilation for 'gender' reasons and the rest.
Those talking points are a grab bag of distractions, and not subtle ones. Let's ignore the racism and gender panic, so if we take the serious elements at face value, Trump's actions have made them worse, not better.
China is gaining ground in global energy markets, including efforts to denominate oil trade outside the US dollar, something that directly undermines US economic influence. That shift doesn't happen in a vacuum, Trump was warned about what Iran would do if attacked with the Strait of Hormuz, and he attacked them anyway.
And that's ignoring all the power he's handed to China with his tariffs, and the rest of the world trying to exclude an erratic US from their supply and trade chains.
At the same time, policy inconsistency around sanctions and oil markets has had the perverse effect of strengthening adversaries, including both Iran and Russia, while increasing global instability. Escalation without strategy doesn't deter threats, it feeds them.
How many billions in oil sales has he funded directly to Iran since this started? If we believe the reasons why you hated Obama's Nuclear deal with them, Frank, then Trump has directly funded terrorism.
If you genuinely cared about those issues, strategic competition with China, nuclear risk, and Middle Eastern stability, you'd be furious at Trump's level of incompetence. Because the reality is blunt, these problems are now worse than they needed to be.
Worse than if he'd exercised restraint. Worse than if he'd done NOTHING.
So the claim that critics are hypocrites doesn't land. The deflection only works if you ignore outcomes, and the outcomes are exactly what people warned about, but you chose to ignore them when they were warnings, and ignore them when those warnings have come true, as you still desperately support and defend Trump.
Hypocrite.
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