{"id":59394,"date":"2026-05-27T06:00:49","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T13:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=59394"},"modified":"2026-05-26T19:44:41","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T02:44:41","slug":"open-thread-may-27-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2026\/05\/27\/open-thread-may-27-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread May 27 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last weekend, it happened again. In case you missed it, starting around Easter, the announced on Saturday that peace talks were going well and peace was imminent. The oil futures market responded &#8211; the price per barrel dropped. On Monday (or Tuesday if Monday was a day the market was closed) the same went all hawkish and threatened to bomb Iran to Kingdom Come. The price of oil futures went up. American oligarchs who had bought low (who can affords to buy futures th the hundreds of millions of barrels) then sold high. This has happened every weekend for eight weekends. Every weekend for those eight weekends, &#8216;s personal friends who could afford to buy oil futures in the millions of barrels made millions of dollars. And don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s over. It will go on as long as they can get away with it. Malcolm dtill called his show the &#8220;confuion-cast&#8221; yesterday, but said he may soon go to &#8220;dementia-cast.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>You don&#8217;t have to go to X to watch <a href=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/news\/us-k-shaped-economy-graphic\">the graphic<\/a>. It plays fine right in the article. I personally think the final still at the end is every bit as jawdropping as the video.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/robertreich.substack.com\/p\/sunday-thought-the-problem-isnt-that\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Robert Reich<\/a> is talking about the political compass here &#8211; and so on point that I expect he is aware of it. This is not the first time I have heard someone advise that a third axis is needed, and I beieve that person suggested good and evil &#8211; which is fine with me. It would have to be in and out, since that&#8217;s the only dimension left in our three-dimensional world, and it would be a challenge to draw in two dimensions, but I think probably worth the effort.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a lot in <a href=\"https:\/\/morningmemo.talkingpointsmemo.com\/p\/craven-self-preservation-puts-senate\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mornng Memo<\/a>, and it&#8217;s all valuabe. But the first section is what first caught my eye.<\/p>\n<p>Better a couple of days late then never (IMO)<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ozD1D58oSf0?si=cnhrLn4NL7dK-nTm\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NluAKxpUrok?si=NFyNsTC6Uaae_dSM\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-59401\" src=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/ij-bombs.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"999\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/ij-bombs.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/ij-bombs-270x300.jpg 270w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/ij-bombs-135x150.jpg 135w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/ij-bombs-768x852.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last weekend, it happened again. In case you missed it, starting around Easter, the announced on Saturday that peace talks were going well and peace was imminent. The oil futures market responded &#8211; the price per barrel dropped. On Monday (or Tuesday if Monday was a day the market was closed) the same went all <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2026\/05\/27\/open-thread-may-27-2026\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":58319,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,3,5],"tags":[7427,4355,4531,7425,7428,4982,7426,3811,4791,5978,6437],"class_list":["post-59394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-actual-economy","tag-animals","tag-dogs","tag-endless-war","tag-market-manipulation","tag-memorial-day","tag-memories","tag-personal","tag-stock-market","tag-the-political-compass","tag-the-senate","category-35-id","category-3-id","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59394\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}