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US US Politics General - Discussion of President Biden and other politicians
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Holy shit, gas is going to get to $10 a gallon and possibly higher.
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>up to 6
That's rookie numbers. Cover the whole fucking pump in them. Also that Alabama gas station manager is a cucked faggot for removing them.
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If he's part of a chain he may not have a choice in the matter. Technically, it is graffiti or vandalism.
It's also factually correct.
And watching this geriatric retard babble about how it's all Russia's fault when he and his handlers have been doing everything to fucking gut our domestic energy production makes me mad enough to chew railroad spikes and spit carpet tacks. Mother. Fucking. FAGGOTS.
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Bugged economy mechanics dood nothing I could do
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This looks shopped. The guy on the left looks like one of those memes where you shrink the face of the person and enlarge their head.
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Saudi, Emirati Leaders Decline Calls With Biden During Ukraine Crisis
Persian Gulf monarchies have signaled they won’t help ease surging oil prices unless Washington supports them in Yemen, elsewhereBy Dion Nissenbaum , Stephen Kalin and David S. Cloud
Updated March 8, 2022 6:38 pm ET
The White House unsuccessfully tried to arrange calls between President Biden and the de facto leaders of Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates as the U.S. was working to build international support for Ukraine and contain a surge in oil prices, said Middle East and U.S. officials.
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and the U.A.E.’s Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed al Nahyan both declined U.S. requests to speak to Mr. Biden in recent weeks, the officials said, as Saudi and Emirati officials have become more vocal in recent weeks in their criticism of American policy in the Gulf.
“There was some expectation of a phone call, but it didn’t happen,“ said a U.S. official of the planned discussion between the Saudi Prince Mohammed and Mr. Biden. ”It was part of turning on the spigot [of Saudi oil].”
Mr. Biden did speak with Prince Mohammed’s 86-year-old father, King Salman, on Feb. 9, when the two men reiterated their countries’ longstanding partnership. The U.A.E.’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said the call between Mr. Biden and Sheikh Mohammed would be rescheduled.
The Saudis have signaled that their relationship with Washington has deteriorated under the Biden administration, and they want more support for their intervention in Yemen’s civil war, help with their own civilian nuclear program as Iran’s moves ahead, and legal immunity for Prince Mohammed in the U.S., Saudi officials said. The crown prince faces multiple lawsuits in the U.S., including over the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi in 2018.
The Emiratis share Saudi concerns about the restrained U.S. response to recent missile strikes by Iran-backed Houthi militants in Yemen against the U.A.E. and Saudi Arabia, officials said. Both governments are also concerned about the revival of the Iran nuclear deal, which doesn’t address other security concerns of theirs and has entered the final stages of negotiations in recent weeks.
The White House has worked to repair relations with two key Middle Eastern countries it needs on its side as oil prices push over $130 a barrel for the first time in almost 14 years. Saudi Arabia and the U.A.E. are the only two major oil producers that can pump millions of more barrels of more oil—a capacity that, if used, could help calm the crude market at a time when American gasoline prices are at high levels.
Brett McGurk, the National Security Council’s Middle East coordinator, and Amos Hochstein, the State Department’s energy envoy, both traveled to Riyadh late last month to try to mend fences with Saudi officials. Mr. McGurk also met with Sheikh Mohammed in Abu Dhabi in a bid to address Emirati frustrations over the U.S. response to the Houthi attacks.
One U.S. official said the Biden administration has worked diligently to strengthen Saudi and Emirati missile defenses, and that America would be doing more in the coming months to help the two Gulf nations protect themselves. It may not be all the two countries want, the official said, but the U.S. is trying to address their security concerns.
But the Saudis and Emiratis have declined to pump more oil, saying they are sticking to a production plan approved between their group, the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries, and a group of other producers led by Russia. The energy alliance with Russia, one of the world’s top oil producers, has enhanced OPEC’s the power of OPEC while also bringing the Saudis and Emiratis closer to Moscow.
Both Prince Mohammed and Sheikh Mohammed took phone calls from Russian President Vladimir Putin last week, after declining to speak with Mr. Biden. They both later spoke with Ukraine’s president, and a Saudi official said the U.S. had requested that Prince Mohammed mediate in the conflict, which he said the kingdom is embarking on.
White House spokeswoman Jen Psaki said earlier this week that there were no plans to talk to Prince Mohammed anytime soon about oil, and that there were no plans for Mr. Biden to travel to Saudi Arabia.
Saudi Arabia and the U.A.E. forged deep ties with former President Donald Trump, who sided with them in a regional dispute with Qatar, pulled the U.S. out of the Iran nuclear deal that they had opposed, made his first trip abroad to Riyadh in 2017 and stood by Prince Mohammed after the killing of Mr. Khashoggi. But Mr. Trump’s decision not to respond to an Iranian drone and missile attack on major Saudi oil sites in 2019 rattled Gulf partners who have relied for decades on the promise of U.S. security protection. Iran denied involvement in the oil facility attacks.
The rift between Mr. Biden and Saudi Arabia’s crown prince stretches back to the 2020 presidential election, when the Democratic candidate vowed to treat the kingdom as a “pariah” state after a Saudi hit team killed Mr. Khashoggi in 2018 in Istanbul.
There is “very little social redeeming value in the present government in Saudi Arabia,” Mr. Biden said during a presidential debate in 2019.
After taking office, Mr. Biden released a U.S. intelligence report that concluded that Prince Mohammed had approved the plan to capture or kill Mr. Khashoggi, who had been an outspoken critic of the young Saudi ruler.
Prince Mohammed has denied knowing anything about the plot, even though people close to the crown prince were convicted by a Saudi court of taking part in murdering the journalist.
Mr. Biden also publicly castigated Saudi Arabia over its protracted war in Yemen and cut off the flow of some weapons Riyadh could use to target Houthis. The president also reversed a move by his predecessor that put the Houthis on America’s official list of global terrorist groups, a move that Saudi leaders said had emboldened the Yemeni force and thwarted efforts to broker a cease-fire.
On Monday, Ms. Psaki said the president stood by his view that Saudi Arabia should be treated like a “pariah” state and that the leadership had little redeeming social value.
When asked in an interview with the Atlantic magazine released last week if Mr. Biden misunderstood the Saudi leader, Prince Mohammed responded: “Simply, I do not care.”
Prince Mohammed said alienating the Saudi leaders would hurt the U.S. president. “It’s up to him to think about the interests of America,” he said. “Go for it.”
One U.S. official acknowledged that Prince Mohammed is the key Saudi decision maker, and that the Biden administration will have to find ways to work with the crown prince on everything from energy policy to normalizing relations with Israel.
Along with Saudi Arabia, the U.A.E. has urged the U.S. to put the Houthis on its list of terrorist groups and to send more military aid to help defend the country from more attacks. But the U.S. hasn’t moved to address those Emirati concerns, according to Gulf officials.
Last month, Gen. Frank McKenzie, the head of U.S. Central Command, flew to Abu Dhabi for a series of meetings with Emirati leaders to discuss ways to beef up security in the wake of the Houthi missile strikes. Gen. McKenzie wanted to meet with Sheikh Mohammed, but was unable to get time with the Emirati leader, according to a Middle East official.
Last week, Yousef Al Otaiba, the U.A.E. ambassador to the U.S., said that relations between the two countries were strained.
“It is like any relationship,” he said in Abu Dhabi. “It has strong days where the relationship is very healthy and days where the relationship is under question. Today, we’re going through a stress test, but I am confident that we will get out of it and get to a better place.”
—Benoit Faucon, Timothy Puko and Summer Said contributed to this article.
Write to Dion Nissenbaum at dion.nissenbaum@wsj.com, Stephen Kalin at stephen.kalin@wsj.com and David S. Cloud at david.cloud@wsj.com
Copyright ©2022 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Appeared in the March 9, 2022, print edition as 'Saudi, U.A.E. Leaders Spurn Call With Biden.'
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When the guy who sells himself to any country, who is behind the electric car tells you that you are fucking things...
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There are two "versions" of Equality.
Equality of Opportunity is what most people think of when they think of Equality. Everyone should get a fair shot, to pass or fail on their own merits. You shouldn't pick the white guy over the black lesbian, if they can both do the same job. This is a core aspect of Meritocracy, an anti-racist idea that people should succeed or fail on their own merits, a core aspect of American culture, as well as Gaming Culture, Hacking Culture, et cetera.
Equality of Outcome is the Communist version of Equality. If people don't pass or fail at an equal rate, then there must be something that is causing that not to happen, and actions must be taken to resolve this. If there are not an equal or proportionate number of black lesbian CEOs as White Male CEOs, something must be causing the black lesbian CEOs to fail.
The former is Equality. The latter is Equity.
When companies talk about DEI -- Diversity Equity and Inclusion programs -- they are inherently talking about Race, Gender, Sexuality quotas and tokenism. They are specifically talking about punishing Straight White Men because they are willing to sacrifice the things required to succeed whereas gays / women / blacks are not, but still feel entitled to the same success.
Gender Equity means that even though a man works on average 12 more hours a week than a woman and doesn't and instead leaves the workforce for years to have a child, the woman should get the same take home pay as that man.
Race Equity means that even though a white or Asian may have spent their 20s if not 30s getting certifications and degrees and sacrificing their home life for their careers, the black who didn't do that should get the same promotions.
That sort of thing. It's an inherently collectivist, communist idea, a betrayal of American Meritocratic values. There's a reason they worked very, very hard to find a word that sounds pretty close to "equality."
And this is before you start talking about the systemic racism, sexism, and other forms of bigotry that the left has embraced. A volleyball team is "diverse" when it's 6 black women with shaved heads from the exact same region of the exact same country. It's literally illegal in California for a company to have 6 white men on a company board.
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the prblem is the elite patched this pretty soon after, thats when they decided to get into "protected class" bullshit. you can't kill the rich because the rich are Jews/tutsis/niggers/catholic/etc. Which means any toppling of the rich becomes a genoicde. Mind you this was all laid out in writing and even socialists figured it out around the victorian era. Its why NatSoc's answer to that question was "dude who cares lol" while Lenin's answer was "well then just kill the ones not in that protected class, just let those people have all the power" And you can see how well those two options worked out on the international stage.
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What an absolutely SHOCKING surprise the oil princes told us to fuck off. Incredible. Astounding, Mr. President.
You fucking retard. And a SPECIAL thank you to every retard on this retarded fucking site who was smuckling in the 2020 election thread about how the adults were back in town. Life in this fucking shithole country was better than it ever was when Trump was doing his fucking job and you retarded fuckers absolutely know it. This is Biden's buck and you're all at fault for it.
Sincerely! Thank you for obliterating my future.
You fucking retard. And a SPECIAL thank you to every retard on this retarded fucking site who was smuckling in the 2020 election thread about how the adults were back in town. Life in this fucking shithole country was better than it ever was when Trump was doing his fucking job and you retarded fuckers absolutely know it. This is Biden's buck and you're all at fault for it.
Sincerely! Thank you for obliterating my future.
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Biden gets lost and can't find the exit.
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Man do you think Trump gets tired of being right?
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How much does gas have to get before we get to 1970s lines?
So how long before the people really go into it? Or was 1/6 the only non Minecraft option?
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I've been told a rumor that the Federal Government is freaking out about the gas prices from a prominent source, and is trying to pressure states to have a tax holiday for a few months on the state's sales tax for Gasoline. Take this with a grain of salt since it's only chatter, but I'm starting to believe it more and more each day.
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Saw a sign threatening legal action on anyone "vandalizing" the pumps with sticker residue next to it. Assume this was why.
If I owned a gas station, I'd let them know REMOVING the stickers was vandalism
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no they won't. we've seen the approval ratings demographics. niggers love biden, and since they live in cities they have no need for cars. rural votes GOP 90% of the time. big cities have public transportation; if you really want to moneyball it out, dems have not a single fucking reason not to fuck over rural people.
Same thing with canada, until the convoy there was no reason not to fuck with truckers, and even after it hasn't affected people's political positions a month afterwards.
again not true, most people in the security state don't give a fuck. Biden could personally fuck the child of the boeing ceo and it not even affect him.
exactly,
thats not the only thing, back then the royal court had to worry all the fucking time about being assassinated, kings had attempts on their lives every year, there's a reason the 1848 revolutions happened around the time rifling guns was common, kings were a lot more lenient on letting people have a say once it was easy to hit one at 500m.
hell arguebly the reason the english civil war happened was because assassins kept killing off members of the court who were responsible for everything, leaving amateurs with no ability to try to solve the problems.
thats why democracy suddenly ruled in the latter half of the 19th century, a fuckload harder to kill off the people in power when its not 1 person but 10,000 with guidelines and plans already set up for them
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Welp, here’s yesterday (when I filled up)…
…Annnnnd today.
Keep in mind that this is the gas station in my area that prides itself on having the lowest prices.
Die, Joe.
…Annnnnd today.
Keep in mind that this is the gas station in my area that prides itself on having the lowest prices.
Die, Joe.
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His country is Tesla.
i know he had to say it because of obvious reasons but it's still hilarious
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