At 9.50pm AEDT yesterday, there was a sudden spike in trading on the oil and S&P 500 futures market.

6.50am New York time is an unusual time for a rush on trades on West Texas Intermediate May futures.

But it showed that all of a sudden, a substantial sum of money was bet on oil prices dropping and the stock market rising.

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    13 hours ago

    Rump is quite old and has health problems, he can’t have many years left. Meanwhile this has all the appearance of a personality cult, with no obvious successors: we can’t afford hope it all falls apart and we can begin to recover

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      13 hours ago

      American culture created Trump.

      When he’s gone, the rot will remain until your Nazis are sufficiently afraid or sufficiently dead.

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        8 hours ago

        I can’t deny that but I can hope that they’ll no longer have a golden idol to rally around or an authority telling them it’s ok.

        We need to at least get back to the point where these behaviors are not socially acceptable, are not encouraged by elected officials, and ARE legally accountable

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          You need to understand that there is no longer any legal way to make them “not socially acceptable.” MAGA trash needs to be genuinely afraid.