War-mongering, conquering, and looting the spoils. Some things never change.
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They are, did any of you get rich from the war on terror, or any other war for that matter?
Zionist prostitute
I think that might be an insult…to the prostitutes.
Who is this "we" that keep talking about? I haven't seen Jack shit.
“Venezuela and Iran have 31 percent of the world’s oil reserves. We’re going to have a partnership with 31 percent of the known reserves."
Kinda saying the quiet part loud there, aren't you, Lindsey? In prior decades the government at least pretended its wars were about anything other than oil...
"This is China’s nightmare."
No it's not. China has been ambracing the future by investing in renewables. It's not stuck in the past, and it doesn't give a shit if you are. The oil economy is dead and dying. It will be replaced, and at this rate the US won't be ready for it. China is laughing.
"This is a good investment”
War isn't a fucking investment! Are dollar signs all you see?
China has never produced a lot of energy relying on oil in the first place. They did improve a lot adding renewables to the pie, but sadly, they still heavily rely on coal.
China has a 100 year plan, the orange dotard himself doesn't know what he is going to be doing in the next 100 minutes...
No it’s not. China has been ambracing the future by investing in renewables. It’s not stuck in the past, and it doesn’t give a shit if you are. The oil economy is dead and dying. It will be replaced, and at this rate the US won’t be ready for it. China is laughing.
The humans on this planet really are going to incinerate themselves over little green pieces of paper.
This whole timeline feels like Vogon poetry
Lindsey graham is a child rapist and murderer who is owned by AIPAC
and yet he keeps getting elected, best rep they can come up with, love him ?
There's no way he said tonne with the e at the end like that.
Shoddy reporting by Al Jazeera. Graham was clearly speaking American, not English.
ᴏᴜʀ ʜᴀᴛʀᴇᴅ ɪꜱ ᴄᴏɴᴄʀᴇᴛᴇ. ᴏᴜʀ ᴇɴᴇᴍʏ ɪꜱ ᴏʙᴠɪᴏᴜꜱ.
ɪᴛ'ꜱ ɪʙʟɪꜱ.
ɪᴛ'ꜱ ᴛʜᴇ ᴄʜʀɪꜱᴛɪᴀɴ.
ᴀɴᴅ ᴀꜱ ᴛʜᴇ ᴋᴏʀᴀɴ ꜱᴀʏꜱ:
ɪ ᴡɪʟʟ ꜰɪʟʟ ʜᴇʟʟ ᴡɪᴛʜ ʏᴏᴜ ᴀʟʟ,
ʏᴏᴜ ᴀɴᴅ ᴀʟʟ ᴛʜᴏꜱᴇ ᴀꜰᴛᴇʀ ʏᴏᴜ...
-- from the New Pope
Depends on the definition of we. Military actions almost never end well financially.
Ah it's the 2000s again. They'll top it off with a global financial crisis. Probably the AI bubble collapsing or succeeding and destroying all the jobs.
Maybe the Americans will elect an Obama 2.0 after. Maybe not. There wasn't MAGA last time. More likley it'll be president mecha-Hitler or something this time around.
I’m still not down from my hate-high after the last election. America doesn’t need someone else to step in and responsibly commandeer the government. Not yet.
The pain must go on long enough for the lesson to stick.
Conserv卐tives don’t learn until they’re personally affected. Not all of them are as yet affected.
If we're going by extremes maybe we can get a socialist president this time round? Actual universal healthcare?
Textbook psychopath. A truly immoral, sadistic, bloodthirsty bastard of the sort Hunter Thompson would conjure to represent the foulest archetype of American politics.
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For those not old enough to remember, they said the Iraqi war would pay for itself with all of that oil.
It did not.
But, Graham isn't talking "we" the US people, but "we" as in the club we're not in, AKA bOtH pArTiEs Super Friends.
Fuck you "we." "We" who!? When oil companies profit "we" don't see a fucking dime of that money especially with your corporate "taxation" bullshit where they get loophole after loophole to pay nothing.
Well, he means himself and his friends, which is what all politicians have always meant when they say "we" are going to benefit from their decisions.
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Yeah but on the upside you do get to pay for the bombs they're dropping on Iranian kids.
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Let me guess, polymarket
No blood for oil. It was evil and stupid in the 00s, and it's worse today now that oil is increasingly replaceable
The hilarious thing is that the American voter is supposed to be thinking of themselves when he says "we". I would kinda understand the logic of continuing the forever war as a voter if everyone got a fat check once we ended the Iraq war. At least then I could understand that it is pure greed driving people to vote for war mongers.
In the end "we" is a small group of oil barons who made billions while footing the multi trillion bill to the tax payer. Unfortunately this just means that the average voter is greedy, but to stupid to actually benefit from their own avarice.
Still hoping for that trickle down 40 years later.
Golden Shower economics, surely the rich will start pissing on our heads any day now.
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Conservatives are so clownishly selfish.
They're the hamster that gets mad at the other hamster and shits in the shared food bowl out of spite.
Profits over people once again.
Republicans are genuinely traitors to the US. It’s hard to put into words how much I hate them.
Traitors to humanity
Same old Republican party. Waste of oxygen IMHO.
Someone already made tonne of money on forex. Looking at the chart the war is over and it was just a forex scam.
Make sure the shitbag's grandchildren are fucking drafted! The MAGA fucks always said the USA has enough oil reserves to be self-sufficient. As usual, BS!
meanwhile gas prices just doubled, thanks for that america. get rid of your fascist regime, please? :(
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Remember when we joked about america invading anything for oil and then we all stopped for a bit because they tried to convince us that there was more to the US than being the state equivelent of a crackhead with a dozen shotguns? And then they launched a self described war to bring about the apocalypse and also steal all the oil... can we stop pretending everything is ok!?
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Fantastic! That means no need to pay taxes for the next 3 years
Anyone else watch Rick and Morty, isn't Graham basically Jerry in couple therapy place (mean outside of the 'presenting' that it does)? It's just so subservient to whoever he latches on to. Mean from bomb Iran of McCain it just may be doing his previous hang on wishes here too. But seriously this guy is a senator that has a leadership ability of a wet noodle. Aren't senators supposed to be strong in their own convictions? Mean maybe there's lots I haven't heard of Mr Graham but I don't think McCain would be happy with his swap.
Least McCain had some principles and would now down to the orange turd, that's the only good thing I saw from him (okay plus telling someone in an audience to be respectful of Obama, you'd never see that today)
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