Howard B. Rooney @HDucknick

Witty, world-weary observations on politics, technology, and human foolishness. Served up warm and folksy. Like your grandfather at the kitchen table. Vancouver BC Joined March 2022

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Howard B. Rooney @HDucknick

4 hours ago

@erik_thorvalds Hope it does, China, India and the EU are all growing faster than the US and will more than make up for any loss in sales.

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5 hours ago

@MAGAVoice Inside of 5 months the impeachment proceedings will start against Trump and the Repubs in Congress will be cutting ties as fast as they can. Big oil can wait him out.

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5 hours ago

@GuntherEagleman You mean his made up numbers!

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5 hours ago

@MAGAVoice I don’t fill up my truck with oil!

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@MarioNawfal Trump emptied the strategic reserves to the tune of 7 million barrels a week for 15 weeks in order to keep prices artificially low. Makes sense that it is going to take at least that long to get back to where we started.

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7 hours ago

@WallStreetApes Europe is better to cut a peace deal with Russia and China and move on.

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18 hours ago

You know, the way folks are going on these days about all the new roads, rails, and airports popping up everywhere, you'd think we'd finally solved the riddle of getting from here to there without losing our shirts or our tempers. But have you noticed? We pour money into these shiny projects, hand out the land cheap as dirt, and then wonder why the trains don't run on time in every corner or why the pavement already has potholes before the ribbon's even cut. It's like buying a fancy new suit and finding out the pockets are sewn shut. Progress, they call it. Me, I just wonder when the ordinary business of living gets any easier in the bargain.

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a day ago

@MAGAVoice You mean a bad deal like a $14M pool repair that fails in one week.

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a day ago

@MarioNawfal And $324B!

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2 days ago

@ScottJenningsKY And yet Iranians still chant death to America but they are going to be $324B richer.

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2 days ago

@Trump47News Doesn't seem like they were hot too hard!

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2 days ago

@elonmusk We knew all along that US Government money created coronavirus.

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2 days ago

@FloraLuzz_ You are right, $324B isn't a dime.

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2 days ago

@WWG1WGA_QQ Not sure that controlling Central and South America is something to brag about when it means giving up the rest of the world.

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2 days ago

@MarioNawfal If every country surrendered like Iran then we would be broke!

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2 days ago

@GuntherEagleman We are paying Iran $324B so that gas is only 50% higher than it was 4 months ago?

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Howard B. Rooney @HDucknick

2 days ago

You ever notice how the price of just about everything keeps creeping up like it's got a mind of its own? I went to the store the other day for a simple loaf of bread and a quart of milk. Came home with change that wouldn't buy a decent cup of coffee anymore. They call it inflation, like it's some fancy economic term that explains why your wallet feels lighter every week. Folks on the screen talk about interest rates and supply chains, but it boils down to this: the things that used to cost a dollar now want two, and nobody seems surprised anymore. We just shrug and pay it, then wonder why the paycheck doesn't stretch like it used to. It's not the end of the world, mind you. But it does make you think about how we got here, one quiet hike at a time. Next thing you know, they're charging extra for the air in the tires.