Ya think?
Posted on 04/28/2019 11:23:46 AM PDT by rktman
President Donald Trump during a Saturday rally in Wisconsin described a phone call with the leader of Saudi Arabia in which he demanded more money from the oil-rich nation.
“Look, Saudi Arabia, very rich country, we defend them, we subsidize Saudi Arabia. They have nothing but cash, right? We subsidize them. And they buy a lot from us, $450 billion they bought,” Trump began. “You know, You had people wanting to cut off Saudi Arabia. They bought $450 billion. I don’t want to lose ‘em! But the military, we subsidize Saudi Arabia!”
“I called the King,” he continued. “I like the King. I said ‘King, we’re losing our ass defending you, King, and you have a lot of money.’ That’s true. And he said ‘but why would you be calling me, nobody has ever made such a call before.’ I said that’s because they were stupid! So we’re working a deal with Saudi Arabia. So many places. So many places. I tell you what, honestly, it’s easier than collecting $113.57 from a tenant in a bad location in New York City. And it’s safer too.”
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Why yes, those were very geniusee pithy comments. :-)
I will have to say I was VERY offended the high profile Islam played in the memorial services.
There were relatives whose loved ones had just been killed by Islamic radicals, and they had to sit through Islamic clerics prominent in some of the ceremonies.
A good rebuttal would be that we still have Christians deliver memorial services when fringe Christians do bad things.
The truth is, Christian churches are not telling their people that others are the great Satan, and it would be best to kill them.
Most of us are under the opinion, that this sort of thing is being taught in at least some of the mosques.
The Booshes will disapprove.
No, they were a bit silly, but I was playing along. Sorry I can’t rise to the supreme intellectual level of your comment #1.
Ya think?
The Saudi leadership clearly does not share the anti-Western beliefs of the Wahhabi sect. The leadership’s beliefs are the minority in their own country.
They are in a tough situation, in that. They have to at least keep a working understanding with the Wahhabists.
I would hate to see the Wahhabi sect become the leadership of Saudi Arabia.
It would affect a number of nations in the region in short order.
I am obviously sarcastically challenged in the wrong way. The quote stated by Trump just struck me as Mel Brooksish. “Look here King?”
Those guys are a real hoot.
Look, none of us believe we adhere to all our Christian beliefs in our youth. We deserve some criticism.
Then the guy goes back to his own nation and watches how women and children are abused there.
We’re not perfect. They sure as hell aren’t perfect.
Stoning for being raped... men buggering little boys... girls being taken in marriage in their single digit age years... beheadings?
These people are living in the dark ages preaching to us.
Seems to me we try to live humane lives. Everyone gets a hearing and are judged by their peers.
Seems to me we do our best to treat women and children humanely at times of divorce. If anything the men take it in the shorts at that time.
Qutb may wish to study up.
What’s more, retail prices are not directly determined by crude prices. Each step in the process is it’s own market. So wholesale gas prices are not locked to the price of crude.
Thanks for the mention of him. I can’t recall see much on him before.
Petrodollar—Trump knows what it is and what it means.
So does Saudi Arabia.
A divorce would be a financial catastrophe for the US (hyper-inflation) and would probably lead to a revolution in Saudi Arabia with the royal family getting their heads chopped off by rebels.
The marriage will continue even if the spouses don’t like each other.
Now I’m getting confused as to what we’re talking about. The first comment I made here was in response to some posters who had said the gasoline prices had decreased from some price to some other higher price, and I was going along with that way of putting it. Then a couple of other people, who apparently hadn’t seen the other comments, had to get snotty about my comment, and it seemed at first glance as if you were too.
In any case, I apologize if I mistook your comment, and hope you are having a nice Sunday.
LOL! Snooty maybe, snotty no. I was just sharing some info about the whole who did what and when. Egyptians, Saudis.... There were a lot of parties involved(most likely using our own money we paid to them) and we still pay them. That’s all I was getting at. Anyway, hope you also are having an awesome Sunday.
*** Nothing wrong with supporting SA while demanding they also support us. ***
I disagree. Complicity with evil is evil. The Saudi Salafists are evil.
Nah - he’s just rolling out what he knew would be needed at the strategically proper times.
Syria in the past was nominally a problem due to their antagonism with Israel — pretty well handled by the Israelis — and their alliances with Iran and Russia. The latter were certainly a headache for us, but, I agree, not to the point where I’d have called Syria an enemy we needed to topple.
The bigger problems with Syria came first when nitwits Hitlery & Obummer decided Assad had to go: That as we all know resulted in ISIS in control of much of the country, and growing. THAT could not be tolerated. So, we, the Russkis, Iran, and the Saudis (in a more clandestine way) set about ripping out that crop of weeds (ISIS). That IMO was necessary. It also ultimately saved Assad’s behind, but left Russia with more influence and personnel, and IRAN with a LOT more influence (more like partial control) and personnel, in Syria. The Russia part IMO we can still live with, but the heavy Iranian presence could get very problematic unless we have a pretty solid understanding with Russia that the Iranians will be kept in check...
Then there are the Kurds - do we just abandon an ally?
What a mess!
Thanks, Hillary!
(Is a “ /s “ necessary?) :-(
I remember vividly when ISIS marched out of Syria. Someone was actually posting maps of their march across the desert on FR, while Obama did nothing to keep the monster his policies created contained.
I like looking at maps. The worst thing that could've happened is Assad being toppled while ISIS could take control. That would've given them a corridor to the Med, and a very easy path to southern Europe. The Kurds? Why not give them the northern third of Iraq as a nation, but they stay within those borders? We owe Iraq NOTHING with their non-existent effort to stop ISIS. It would also keep that portion of Iraq out of the claws of Turkey or Iran. And Turkey is still our ally?? What a shame nobody in history warned us against entangling alliances or the military-industrial complex. (is a "/s" tag necessary?)
I was hoping President Trump would read up on US History when he got to office, maybe get Pat Buchanan or someone with that level of knowledge in to get him up to speed. President Trump still picks sides, sometimes missing the context of facts when he's defending a friend. President Trump by nature is a builder, not a destroyer. I do hope he gets back on that path.
Sorry I’m dense. I can’t see where you are from but gas price isn’t a Presidential decree and state local federal taxes are big. Where I am it’s cheaper. You said it went down but yet up. I’m dense. Sorry. Price of gas is a fools bitching issue. After 20 years of hearing it’s 10 years away from solving the problem of exploration we are there now. Politics didn’t drive it ingenuity did. In the scheme of things the price of gas and transportation are ridiculously low. So no I didn’t get it and I’m dumb. The prices jump in the spring every year when they switch over to the summer grade of gas because the federal government requires a different blend because of the assholes in California.
Oh, for heaven’s sake. A few other posters were being facetious, saying that gas went down to a higher price, like that bit from “1984” about the chocolate ration being increased from 30 grams to 20 grams. That’s all it meant. Forget about it.
Sorry when you make fun of our president over gas prices I am a little bit dense. It was almost $5 under Obama. So make your chocolate ration humor somewhere else. Gas is cheap, plentiful and reasonable. We are the worlds biggest producer. So humor was lost, stupid and ridiculous. So forget about it. Democrats always said it would take 10 years to drill our way out but expect us to run around with OMG Fear on 12 year green slime bullshit. So no, I don’t get it. And I think it’s counter productive and just plain stupid. I guess I’m dense.
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