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Hiatus Between November 5, 2024 - January 20, 2025: Twelve Weeks
Biden-Trump Transition
December 29 - January 5, 2024: Week Nine
The transition works this way, this cycle:
- Biden's emphasis is on pardons and commutations, making Trump's life as difficult as possible;
- setting up Trump for failure; Biden will fade away
- expresses regret that he dropped out of race; says he could have won (he's 82 years old)
- as delusional as he is senile
- Trump's focus is to look presidential well before inauguration
- putting his administration (and "Shadow Government") in place;
- nominations: the big ones have all been named
- executive orders being drafted
- US billionaires lining up to meet with Trump at Mar-a-Lago
- global leaders flying to Mar-a-Lago; Canadians have made their second trip to Mar-a-Lago
The Florida White House:
- Trump is the president, simply waiting to make it official, January 20th (unchanged from last month)
- surrounding himself with "self-made billionaires"
- those billionaires not named to his administration are making pilgrimages to Mar-a-Lago
- most recent rumor: Bill Gates on his way (I don't think he has gone there yet)
- entry fee to be part of Trump's inaugural inner circle: $1 million -- Tim Cook most recent to ante that $1-million entry fee.
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The Top Stories
Top story of the week:
- two terrorist attacks on US soil within hours of each other to close out Biden's presidency
Top international non-energy story:
- undersea communications cable mangled off Taiwan
Top international energy story:
Top national non-energy story:
- Prime Video has licensed a Melania Trump documentary
- to be directed by Brett Ratner
- Biden's surgeon general says no amount of alcohol is safe, not even wine at communion
- much less, one small sip of red wine each day
- does anyone really believe that?
- yes, both Trump and Biden
- folks were surprised that it would be cold this winter
- auto sales for December, 2024, and full year results, released
- the spin is amazing
Top national energy story:
- WTI surges; closed just below $74 at the end of the week
Focus on fracking: current link here. Generally updated late Sunday night.
Top North Dakota non-energy story:
Top North Dakota energy story:
- huge Three Forks "find" in the Bakken
- back to talking about a trillion-bbl reservoir
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