lies and blames oil companies. This guy refuses to take responsibility for the clear results of his actions. What a weasel!
When I look for a leader, I want a person who takes responsibility, not some sniveling Wormtongue who, with a pathetic and cringing whine in his voice, blames anyone but himself.
I’m NOT impressed…
that having the Strait of Hormuz closed is no big deal for the United States. A minor inconvenience (in global price of oil). We are already a net exporter of oil and LNG. And we would be in even better shape if “Biden” had not screwed things up beyond recognition. <sigh> It’s a glaring reason you never vote for a Lefty!
But though it takes time, Biden’s malicious stupidity is being undone bit by bit. And that is very good.
But in terms of Europe, I think most Americans have really had enough of their condescending, demanding crap. THEY are the ones who get most of their oil through that straight, not us. So most of Europe can kiss my oil-soaked butt!
While Konrad admitted he has “no idea” when Hormuz will reopen, “but if the price is a modicum of cooperation and respect for everything America has done for decades to keep Europe safe, the strait could stay closed for months, or turned into a toll booth for years, because the majority of Americans…. and the vast majority of Trump administration officials I’ve talked with… seem fed up with their arrogance.”
… The harsh truth is that Hormuz is their priority, not ours, and yet they refuse to make any serious contribution to the war effort. [emphasis added]
Sure, Hormuz is a problem. But it’s not MY problem. If Europe wants things to change, maybe they should get up off their butts and actually do something!
EU energy chief Dan Jørgensen says Europe faces a “very serious situation,” and that “even if… peace is here tomorrow, still we will not go back to normal in the foreseeable future.”
Sucks to be EU, chief.
… So Trump’s message to Europe, more implied than explicit for once, is this: If you need the Strait of Hormuz opened, come and open it yourself. There’s also the implication, as Konrad noted, that if we do someday soon control Hormuz, maybe we’ll charge Europeans a toll to keep it open.
Or at the very least, maybe stop closing your airbases to our military aircraft, you sniveling, presumptuous, Euro-weasels.
ugly. Holy crap that is ugly! I mean, what kind of person IS Jimmy Kimmel? This crap absolutely excludes him from polite company! From an association with ALL decent people!
If is between a decent plumber and Jimmy Kimmel, I would take the plumber 100 times out of 100! What a turd…
you not answer such a simple and obvious question?
ANSWER: He certainly can. He just doesn’t want to because the obvious truth totally destroys his position. See, the problem is that when you take a manifestly stupid position, you back yourself into corners where you cannot even answer an obvious question.
doing it. The voice of the people was overwhelming. It may not be YOUR voice, but we live in a sort of Democracy. So cowboy up a little, Lefties, and stop being a spoiled weasel!
We now know who you really are, and what you have done. And Heaven knows, we won’t forget. The VERY least you could do is stop being a raging narcissist, be a decent human being, and apologize!
It’s OK to be wrong. But to defensively not admit that you were wrong is blatant psychopathology.
Alas, I’m not sure that most of you possess the human decency to do admit that you were wrong. Freakin’ weasels…
lost Hunter? Hunter no longer has to play nice–he already has his pardon and the crime family money spigot has pretty much dried up…
Hunter Biden tore into his father, former Democrat President Joe Biden, calling his handling of the 2021 U.S. troop withdrawal from Afghanistan an “obvious f—ing failure,” in addition to expressing frustration with his father’s immigration policies.
I mean, he’s not really a nice guy at all. But now he doesn’t even have to pretend. He can pretty much say what he thinks, now. Even so, he qualified his words, and he wasn’t really critical of his father.
“I think that there was a better way to do it, and … I can blame it on his generals, I can blame it on [other] people [for] the way in which we did it, but — and my dad always knew this also, is that the buck stops with him,” Hunter said.
Shutdown, Democrats are already starting to go a little wobbly.It’s just hard for me to see how this will end up being good for them. It may energize the kookie Left–as recent elections in places that went for Kamala last year, such as VA, NJ, and NYC–but their shenanigans just don’t look good to normal people.
I think that Democrats have painted themselves into a corner, and paying for cooking and dance lessons for male Haitian prostitutes just won’t fly for most people.
Democrats are already trying to negotiate a face-saving “win,” but I don’t think that will work. Democrats are between the “devil” of their wacko extremist base and the “deep blue sea” of regular voters. They are indeed caught between the Scylla and the Charybdis…
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer tried a delay gambit, offering to reopen the government if the GOP would allow Obamacare subsidies to continue unchanged for a year. Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) was having none of it.
Democrats better get in out of the lightning! While they still can… Because their options are decreasing rather rapidly.
The offer of a “clean” CR is still available, and Democrats are only painting themselves into a corner by not accepting it.
… The subsidies that the Democrats are fighting for so hard are not the subsidies that help poor people afford insurance. They’re fighting to keep subsidies that were “temporarily” added in the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (ARPA) during the pandemic, as an “emergency” measure. Most Americans who take advantage of those subsidies are middle or upper-middle-class.
But the things we are seeing very much point to an eventual Republican win on the shutdown. And that is how it should be–Republicans have offered a “clean” CR based on Biden spending, but 14 times Democrats have rejected that…
really quite important. And it is more than a little bit of a cultural pivot point. Google taking the side of Donald Trump and Jim Jordan? Who would’ve thought that?
And what is perhaps the most disturbing aspect for the Left, the Alphabet company directly blames the Biden administration and says that they were pressured by the Biden administration to censor information. And they won’t do it again. (Riiiight…)
Wow! I think this is a significant cultural sea-change.
Of course, Google was more than eager to comply with the Biden administration on these things, and they are only throwing the Biden administration under the bus now because business-wise, it is the prudent thing to do.
OK, so they are far from sincere. I think we all know that. Even so, I’m glad to see this change.
“Don’t say war!”
What they mean: “Don’t YOU say war!”