Also there's this:Didn't Trump just declare that we were the worlds great oil exporter? Wouldn't we want higher prices? I bet the oil and gas producers in the Baaken and Powder River Basins - maybe even in the Permian are all for going lower and cutting margins as well. Look for some layoffs to start in the Dakotas, Wyoming, Texas and Oklahoma. This guy is an amazing leader.
Just a pathetic suck-up to a country that is currently getting away with murdering an American journalist. Add Saudi Arabia to the long list of countries that have made America their ##### since we elected Donald Trump.CBC News Alerts @CBCAlerts 1h1 hour ago
Donald Trump has just tweeted a thank you to Saudi Arabia for current low oil prices, which he likens to 'a big Tax Cut for America and the World!' In fact, Canada is the US's biggest supplier of imported oil at 40%, compared to only 11% from Saudi Arabia.
even still what are they not going to sell us oil? we're the world's largest customer and we have our own supply. the oil angle is just a way to try and make it somewhat understandable as to why we'd agree to look the other way.what like 10% of our oil imports come from SA?
You put oil in your gas tank? How's your car running these days?Hey America! Don't forget to be thankful this holiday weekend for lower gas prices! And don't forget to thank a dead journalist for it! Don't forget to wash the blood off your hands after pumping that cheap oil into your tank.
Sorry - a bit pissed and only one cup of coffee.You put oil in your gas tank? How's your car running these days?
Really? Will you continue to support him? Will you continue to vote for candidates that support him?I'm embarrassed by Trump's reaction to this. It's just not acceptable.
also, SA doesn't control oil prices....the prices are driven by the world markets...they can certainly impact supply which could ultimately impact prices to some respect but they aren't the only player in town like they were a decade or so ago...As somebody just pointed out on the news: even if we accept Trump’s doctrine that this is all about business (a disgusting notion), Saudi Arabia has no leverage here. They can’t raise oil prices because it hurts them far more than it hurts us.
I'm sure you'll find a way.I'm embarrassed by Trump's reaction to this. It's just not acceptable.
You are making a big mistake here. You are thinking about things that were said/done in the past. Trump doesn't learn from history, he makes history. Once Trump says something, it's only relevant untill Trump says something else. Be like the goldfish.Didn't Trump just declare that we were the worlds great oil exporter? Wouldn't we want higher prices? I bet the oil and gas producers in the Baaken and Powder River Basins - maybe even in the Permian are all for going lower and cutting margins as well. Look for some layoffs to start in the Dakotas, Wyoming, Texas and Oklahoma. This guy is an amazing leader.
I know what the expression supposedly means, but it's a funny thing: the frog won't actually let that happen. It reacts rather violently as the water heats.Thinking about this, Trump was most likely in on it. Another trial balloon. Keep boiling the frog. He's much better at this game that I thought he'd be.
I'm old enough to remember when "unacceptable" had a meaning, and it wasn't just an expression of "I didn't like this."Really? Will you continue to support him? Will you continue to vote for candidates that support him?
Hmmm. Not sure it's since the election of Trump. Dubya acted as their ##### as well, not investigating ties to 9/11. Again, maybe?Also there's this:
Just a pathetic suck-up to a country that is currently getting away with murdering an American journalist. Add Saudi Arabia to the long list of countries that have made America their ##### since we elected Donald Trump.
And right now Trump's tariffs are forcing the world to reassess growth expectations. If there is one thing that sends the oil price down it is expected reduction of future demand, such as when economies slow down......also, SA doesn't control oil prices....the prices are driven by the world markets...they can certainly impact supply which could ultimately impact prices to some respect but they aren't the only player in town like they were a decade or so ago...As somebody just pointed out on the news: even if we accept Trump’s doctrine that this is all about business (a disgusting notion), Saudi Arabia has no leverage here. They can’t raise oil prices because it hurts them far more than it hurts us.
Trump's 2020 sloganYou are making a big mistake here. You are thinking about things that were said/done in the past. Trump doesn't learn from history, he makes history. Once Trump says something, it's only relevant untill Trump says something else. Be like the goldfish.
I guess to some degree. But I don't think a previous administration would have let them get away with something like this. Also, like I said this is just one of a long list of countries that have punked us since Trump. Russia obviously, North Korea, even Finland is mocking his comment about the rakes.Hmmm. Not sure it's since the election of Trump. Dubya acted as their ##### as well, not investigating ties to 9/11. Again, maybe?
Despite McConnell approach not touching this topic, it was interesting reading criticisms from other key Republican senators yesterday, including Corker, Paul and Graham. It shouldn't be a surprise, but after all of the previous/present non-criticisms and/or soft support of every other misstep, it is eye catching. One has to wonder at what point republicans choose to jump ship out of self preservation. Navigating these daily controversies has to be maddening coming off the 2018 election, knowing there will be more of the same coming from the White House until 2020 - proven to be a recipe for disaster re: the US masses.shocking...
Manu RajuVerified account @mkraju
No comment yet from Mitch McConnell on whether he supports Trump's decision to side with Saudi Arabia, and his office will not say if he has any comment.
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Forgive my skepticism, but let’s see if they do anything beyond the “I’m gravely disappointed” soundbytes.Despite McConnell approach not touching this topic, it was interesting reading criticisms from other key Republican senators yesterday, including Corker, Paul and Graham. It shouldn't be a surprise, but after all of the previous/present non-criticisms and/or soft support of every other misstep, it is eye catching. One has to wonder at what point republicans choose to jump ship out of self preservation. Navigating these daily controversies has to be maddening coming off the 2018 election, knowing there will be more of the same coming from the White House until 2020 - proven to be a recipe for disaster re: the US masses.
Totally agreed. However, I'm curious whether you think Republicans see anything coming out of the White House as furthering their ambitions for 2020? Would they really just go all the way down with the ship, as a party? I consider myself an equal opportunity political cynic, which I suppose makes me independent, and there is zero chance this party reaches me in it's current state. That said, there is not much going on that I would typically view as longstanding Republican stance. Some of it yes, most of it no.Forgive my skepticism, but let’s see if they do anything beyond the “I’m gravely disappointed” soundbytes.
The answer is yes. 90% of Republican voters support Trump. 100% of the Republican base STRONGLY support Trump with a passion that is fanatical and impervious to reason, logic, or change.Totally agreed. However, I'm curious whether you think Republicans see anything coming out of the White House as furthering their ambitions for 2020? Would they really just go all the way down with the ship, as a party? I consider myself an equal opportunity political cynic, which I suppose makes me independent, and there is zero chance this party reaches me in it's current state. That said, there is not much going on that I would typically view as longstanding Republican stance. Some of it yes, most of it no.
Maybe the pee tape come out. And its all dudes. That might do it.The answer is yes. 90% of Republican voters support Trump. 100% of the Republican base STRONGLY support Trump with a passion that is fanatical and impervious to reason, logic, or change.
Unless these numbers change (and I can’t think of why they would) I don’t see GOP politicians or leadership ever seriously challenging him.
well, the mid-terms have to be eye opening for them with some of the demographics. This gives them a good excuse to distance / call out the president but more than just sending a tweet or giving a TV interview they actually need to do something.Despite McConnell approach not touching this topic, it was interesting reading criticisms from other key Republican senators yesterday, including Corker, Paul and Graham. It shouldn't be a surprise, but after all of the previous/present non-criticisms and/or soft support of every other misstep, it is eye catching. One has to wonder at what point republicans choose to jump ship out of self preservation. Navigating these daily controversies has to be maddening coming off the 2018 election, knowing there will be more of the same coming from the White House until 2020 - proven to be a recipe for disaster re: the US masses.
Crucifixion is a terrible, terrible thing. Should never happen. And we may never know whether Jesus was guilty of crimes against Rome. Who can say? But thirty pieces IS a lot of silver, and it would be very foolish to turn it down.
I don't know enough to reply on the substance of those numbers, but close calls in clear red states seems to suggest that is 90%-100% of a different population than Republicans have historically reached. My dad went from Liberal to a Reagan Republican over the years, and my uneducated sense is that is not uncommon but is based on a person becoming more fiscally conservative with age. If he was still around, he would not have been in support of any of the platform stances from the 2018 party. Setting the circus aside, spending billions on an immigration wall and trillions on a billionaire tax cut would not have resonated with him at all. Certainly putting a price tag on a death like Khashoggi's would have made him ashamed of the party.The answer is yes. 90% of Republican voters support Trump. 100% of the Republican base STRONGLY support Trump with a passion that is fanatical and impervious to reason, logic, or change.
"Embarrassed" is a good start. Just need a few million more conservatives to feel just a bit more than "embarrassed", though.I'm embarrassed by Trump's reaction to this. It's just not acceptable.
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Hey @realdonaldtrump: being Saudi Arabia’s b**** is not “America First.”
There are some great conservative minds here but they are firmly anti-Trump. I'm sure the folks you are referring to though are the posters that claim they aren't pro-Trump but defend everything he says and does as if their life depended on it.The great conservative minds of FBGs havent shown up here yet either.
Every American should be embarrassed and outraged. Imagine if this was your son, brother, father's life that he so callously traded to enrich himself.I'm embarrassed by Trump's reaction to this. It's just not acceptable.
This is cheap gr00vus. First of all, to pretend that this is just a Trump thing, as opposed to a long line of US presidents demonstrating complete fealty to Saudi Arabia is rewriting history. People acting all surprised by this as if it hasn't been standard US policy for decades. There's always the unsaid presumption that 'well at least the guys before Trump meant well'. Trump should be criticized for this but we shouldn't ignore the historical context here.
Yes, it is. Because Khasoggi is an American journalist, and because he was killed due to his work as a journalist, which has massive ramifications for free speech and the security of Americans abroad. Because Trump is willfully lying to his own people about what happened, undermining the work of his own intelligence service. Because Trump has a personal financial stake in Saudi Arabia that other politicians do not and that further calls into question his judgment on this matter. And for lots of other reasons.This is cheap gr00vus. First of all, to pretend that this is just a Trump thing, as opposed to a long line of US presidents demonstrating complete fealty to Saudi Arabia is rewriting history. People acting all surprised by this as if it hasn't been standard US policy for decades. There's always the unsaid presumption that 'well at least the guys before Trump meant well'. Trump should be criticized for this but we shouldn't ignore the historical context here.
Some of us have been posting in the Yemen thread about this stuff for years. Is Trump's handling of Khashoggi worse than Obama personally greenlighting a policy that made us complicit in the deaths of 85,000 Yemeni children? Is it really that different from John McCain's grotesque cheerleading for Saudi Arabia, routinely voting against blocking weapons sales, accepting $1M human rights bucks from Saudi Arabia to his foundation, as this board mourned his loss like little schoolgirls? I guess we should condemn US oligarchs like Bezos and Zuckerberg for parading MBS around on his US world tour, or Thomas Friedman and David Ignatius for using their editorial pages to wipe the Saudi regime's ###?
Bush, Obama, Trump, I really look at them all the same way. The only real anomaly here, other than lending credibility to MBS' bogus excuses, is that Trump stated obvious facts- that the US is the deeply entrenched partner of a brutal, repressive, murderous regime, and has been for decades- rather than the usual human rights concern trolling.
Great, I look forward to you doing that.This is cheap gr00vus. First of all, to pretend that this is just a Trump thing, as opposed to a long line of US presidents demonstrating complete fealty to Saudi Arabia is rewriting history. People acting all surprised by this as if it hasn't been standard US policy for decades. There's always the unsaid presumption that 'well at least the guys before Trump meant well'. Trump should be criticized for this but we shouldn't ignore the historical context here.
Some of us have been posting in the Yemen thread about this stuff for years. Is Trump's handling of Khashoggi worse than Obama personally greenlighting a policy that made us complicit in the deaths of 85,000 Yemeni children? Is it really that different from John McCain's grotesque cheerleading for Saudi Arabia, routinely voting against blocking weapons sales, accepting $1M human rights bucks from Saudi Arabia to his foundation, as this board mourned his loss like little schoolgirls? I guess we should condemn US oligarchs like Bezos and Zuckerberg for parading MBS around on his US world tour, or Thomas Friedman and David Ignatius for using their editorial pages to wipe the Saudi regime's ###?
Bush, Obama, Trump, I really look at them all the same way. The only real anomaly here, other than lending credibility to MBS' bogus excuses, is that Trump stated obvious facts- that the US is the deeply entrenched partner of a brutal, repressive, murderous regime, and has been for decades- rather than the usual human rights concern trolling.
Shoot, I saw you'd posted and thought maybe this would be your post criticizing Trump.By the way, our other special partner murdered Palestinian journalist Yaser Murtaja in cold blood. Just shot him in broad daylight. But he didn't work for the Post or have US citizenship, so nobody cared.
This is a very interesting argument and I've given it a lot of consideration over the past 24 hours, even before you stated it. It is absolutely true that several of our previous Presidents and leaders have quietly, or sometimes not so quietly, allowed some of our allies to commit terrible crimes. The list is long: Pinochet in Chile, Diem in South Vietnam, Marcos in the Philippines, the Shah in Iran, I could go on and on. There has been tons of hypocrisy in our past, and one could argue (as I'm guessing you do) that we have never been the moral beacon of the world that we pretend to be.This is cheap gr00vus. First of all, to pretend that this is just a Trump thing, as opposed to a long line of US presidents demonstrating complete fealty to Saudi Arabia is rewriting history. People acting all surprised by this as if it hasn't been standard US policy for decades. There's always the unsaid presumption that 'well at least the guys before Trump meant well'. Trump should be criticized for this but we shouldn't ignore the historical context here.
Some of us have been posting in the Yemen thread about this stuff for years. Is Trump's handling of Khashoggi worse than Obama personally greenlighting a policy that made us complicit in the deaths of 85,000 Yemeni children? Is it really that different from John McCain's grotesque cheerleading for Saudi Arabia, routinely voting against blocking weapons sales, accepting $1M human rights bucks from Saudi Arabia to his foundation, as this board mourned his loss like little schoolgirls? I guess we should condemn US oligarchs like Bezos and Zuckerberg for parading MBS around on his US world tour, or Thomas Friedman and David Ignatius for using their editorial pages to wipe the Saudi regime's ###?
Bush, Obama, Trump, I really look at them all the same way. The only real anomaly here, other than lending credibility to MBS' bogus excuses, is that Trump stated obvious facts- that the US is the deeply entrenched partner of a brutal, repressive, murderous regime, and has been for decades- rather than the usual human rights concern trolling.
This would have a lot more weight if you'd brought it up when it happened in April and expressed outrage at the time instead of just pulling it out now in an attempt to deflect from Khashoggi.By the way, our other special partner murdered Palestinian journalist Yaser Murtaja in cold blood. Just shot him in broad daylight. But he didn't work for the Post or have US citizenship, so nobody cared.
That situation should be investigated, and if it turns out he was murdered, there ought to be repercussions.By the way, our other special partner murdered Palestinian journalist Yaser Murtaja in cold blood. Just shot him in broad daylight. But he didn't work for the Post or have US citizenship, so nobody cared.
How come you didn't bring it up before today if it happened more than half a year ago?By the way, our other special partner murdered Palestinian journalist Yaser Murtaja in cold blood. Just shot him in broad daylight. But he didn't work for the Post or have US citizenship, so nobody cared.
I already know the answer. Just want a laugh.Whataboutism is a staple of the Russian's.
Horrible. I don't understand our politicians' love affair with Israel.By the way, our other special partner murdered Palestinian journalist Yaser Murtaja in cold blood. Just shot him in broad daylight. But he didn't work for the Post or have US citizenship, so nobody cared.