Ed Miliband is running around Washington calling the Strait of Hormuz closure a ‘massive tax on working people.’ Well, look at that. The man finally took a look at the receipt. Of course it’s a fucking tax. It’s a tax every time you swipe your card at the pump. It’s a tax every time the heating bill comes and you have to decide between warm and fed. The bastards closed the strait for a geopolitical dick-measuring contest, and they handed the bill to us. Rubio is in the room talking about ‘deterrence.’ Deterrence? The only thing getting deterred around here is my ability to pay my goddamn bills. The politicians in their fancy suits will fly home in their private jets, insulated from the price spikes they created. They don’t feel the squeeze. They just shake hands and call it statesmanship. Meanwhile, the rest of us are left holding the bag for a crisis that was entirely predictable. They knew the energy market was fragile. They did nothing. Now they’re scrambling for deals, and they have the audacity to call it ‘strategy.’ It’s not strategy. It’s a shakedown. You broke the energy market, and you expect us to pay for the repairs. Go to hell. Take your ‘massive tax’ and your donor-class energy security, and shove it. We’re done paying for your games.
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