Saudi abandons the petrodollar
A very important story that hasn't got nearly the coverage it deserves: Saudi Arabia has just agreed to accept Chinese yuan for its oil.
For several decades, Saudi (and through them OPEC) has been a rock-solid US ally, enforcing the petrodollar system. This means (or rather meant) that they would only accept US dollars as payment for oil.
Pretty much everywhere in the world needs oil, so they were all forced to convert their currencies into dollars to obtain it. This allowed the US to maintain its global supremacy despite decades of clownworld economic policies which have led to a $30 trillion and rising national debt, hundreds of trillions of unfunded liabilities, and the outsourcing of most of our industry.
The main reason Saddam and Gaddafi were overthrown by the US was that they both intended to start selling their country's oil in a currency other than the US Dollar. And now the Saudis, the lynchpin of OPEC and the US petrodollar system, are about to do just that. It's over.
Readers should note that less than six years ago President Trump made a hugely successful state visit to Saudi Arabia, in which he cemented ties, made fantastic trade deals which benefitted America and Americans with many billions of dollars and tens of thousands of high-paying jobs, and more broadly and importantly ensured the continued global dominance of the petrodollar and through it the USA.
It has taken just two years of the Biden Vegminstration to undermine and destroy the relationship with the Saudis and the petrodollar system. Really quite astonishing.
Perhaps it was Biden himself saying that Saudi Arabia should be "a pariah state"; or that weird, twitchy, failed wannabe rock star Jew Secretary of State Blinken announcing proudly that he continually browbeats the Saudis at every meeting for their refusal to allow faggots to sodomize each other in public or groom children like civilized countries do; or the abject, shameful weakness shown by Biden in allowing the Taliban to drive America out of Afghanistan and failing to stop Russia invading Ukraine; or a combination of the above. But the outcome is that America is fast losing its global dominance and power, and we will be weaker, poorer, and lesser as a result.
Great job, Sleepy Joe (and your handlers).
Restaurants and shooting range
On August 28,2014 at Burgers and Bullets restaurant and shooting range in Arizona, a nine year old girl wielding an Uzi stitched a few rounds into her firearms instructor's skull, ending his teaching career. The Mimi AR is perfect for children. Second Amendment with less kickback. Comes with a collapsible stock to fit in a backpack.
Get "one of the those" now or it is more about Right-Wing Parenting Values?
[QUOTE=Tiny 12;2783833]Damn, I would have loved to have had one of those when I was a kid! ...[/QUOTE]Okay!
BTW, I couldn't help but chuckle, because it made me think of Chris P's young "gay/tranny" scenario and [b]what if,[/b] he too like you, is now (hypothetically of course), as a grown adult, is also lamenting the fact, "he would have loved to have [b]'one of those'[/b] when he was a kid!" (Note: I'm sure you'll figure out the [i]"one of those"[/i] meaning, given Chris P's scenario).
Well I guess, I would tell you both the same thing, ...if you don't have [b]"one of those"[/b] things now, it's never too late and is there's anything stopping you from getting one now?" (...kkkk!)
Say what now, what is this, you say?
[QUOTE=Tiny 12;2783833]...Rather they're preparing them to become right-wing American soldiers, so Democratic Presidents can ship them off to die in foreign countries, just like they've done for the last 100 some odd years. [/QUOTE] Hmmmmm...is that so?
I was always led to think (not that I believed it, but), that it was the ambition of every Repub to [b]"just own the libs"[/b] (as you Repubs/MAGA ISG BMs have told us countless times) and has always been (to least to my knowledge) the prevailing Repub mantra of the day.
Well according to your statement, you and your fellow right-wing conservative parents and families are raising (or as you put it, "preparing") your very young to be "American ('Child') Soldiers", to run-off to war and fight for Dem. Presidents. [i]Well, so much for [b]"owning the libs".[/b] (...kkkk!) [/i] It appears to be a self-fulling prophecy, according this logic. I didn't think the the self-loathing on the right was this bad, but I guess you've confirmed it. The Dems didn't even have to lift a finger.
I mean, the very fact that what you're saying, basically sounds like conservative Repub parents are "preparing" their young, to be used as [b]"cannon fodder"[/b], isn't in the least bit alarming to you, as a conservative? And even worse, you seem to be endorsing conservative parenting using its young children, as future "Democrat cannon fodder", of all things?
Tiny 12, I guess this is what Donnie [i]"the Devil"[/i] J. Dummkopf, meant when he said "...I love the poorly educated people". Perhaps, he thinks they make "good cannon fodder", too?
[QUOTE=Tiny 12;2783833] ... while children of elite urban and suburban Democrats sit out wars behind desks and in college. [/QUOTE] Yeah, you're so RIGHT!!! Who the fudge, needs to go to school anyways, RIGHT?
I mean, for those of us on the right after all, our right-wing dogma, tells us, [i]"[b]RIGHT is MIGHT[/b]"[/i] and that we teach our kids that the best way to solve their problems, is with a gun, (bazooka, grenade launcher, SAM or GTAM, at the ready or) in hand.
Who ever said, [i]"[b]the pen is mightier than the sword[/b]"[/i], don't know shit! So why even have schools at all? RIGHT! (Hint: Read, a large dose of sarcasm)
So much for educating our kids, that [i]"the pen [b]IS[/b] (indeed) mightier than the sword"[/i]. Or perhaps said education, is ONLY just for the "libs"?
Talk about literally throwing right-wing kids on a "grenade/landmine" and "under the bus", for conservative parenting values everywhere. (...kkkk!)
The Winger Dancing From Flights to Chinese and From All to Some Plague of 2023
[QUOTE=ChrisP;2784054]Stop strawmanning. You've already taken a huge and humiliating L on this. Why keep drawing attention to it?
I didn't say Trump banned all flights from China. There were many US citizens and legal residents there. Can you imagine the hysterical meltdown from the democrat / fake news / leftist judiciary / alphabet agency deep state if he had blocked Americans from returning home? Of course he would not do that.
What he did was ban non-citizens and non-residents from flying to America from the country at the centre of outbreak. There is no doubt that this saved many lives by lessening the initial speed of the spread of the virus, and buying America time to prepare for it.
There is also no doubt that, after the ban became official on January 31st, Biden made a speech later that day calling it "hysterical xenophobia", an allegation he repeated in a tweet the following day.
This is becoming painful to watch even for someone like me who enjoys exposing leftist hypocrisy, wrongheadedness and cognitive dissonance. Please, for the sake of your own mental health, just accept the loss and move on.[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=ChrisP;2783114]In the future, the mental illness known as Trump Derangement Syndrome will be studied intensely.
It allowed dem douches to claim that Trump was responsible for the virus reaching America despite the fact that [b]he banned Chinese from coming to America from China in January 2020, while his democrat opponents were calling him "racist", hugging Chinamen in the streets, and demanding all travel restrictions be lifted.[/b]
Clearly, with the full flight schedule that the democrats wanted, the virus would have spread far more quickly in the USA, resulting in more deaths. That is simple, obvious logic. Yet their TDS-addled brains refuse to accept it.
It is a deep-seated psychiatric phenomenon, similar to the Dancing Plague of 1518.[/QUOTE]True, you didn't say Trump banned "all flights from China". Actually, you did not reference it to "flights" but to a national origin; "Chinese".
You also didn't say Trump banned "all" Chinese from coming to America from China. However, you also didn't say he banned "some" Chinese from coming to America from China. The absence of a qualifier served your intention to bamboozle the ill-informed into concluding, incorrectly, that Trump prevented Chinese people from spreading Trump's Pandemic virus into America. Which he obviously did not do.
And it is interesting that even you could not continue that Chinese "ban" nonsense as illustrated by your dance from "ban" to "restrictions" for your later inaccuracy. Ah, you showed signs of inching closer to the truth about Trump's too little too late move regarding preventing Chinese from bringing Trump's Pandemic virus to America.
But even there you applied the wrong word to the event. In fact, in that case the Dems really were trying to lift a Trump "ban".
On that last part, I assume you were talking about Pelosi putting up for a vote Trump's unconstitutional "ban" on Muslims entering America from some predominantly Muslim countries in January 2020, right?
Uh. That had nothing to do with Trump restricting some flights originating from China. Nor did it have anything to do with lifting testing efforts for anyone of any religion trying to enter America.
[URL]https://thehill.com/homenews/house/480070-pelosi-says-house-will-vote-on-bill-to-repeal-travel-ban/[/URL]
Again, that kind dancing around, conflating unrelated events and crafty wordplay might dazzle, confuse and bamboozle the ill-informed into buying your nonsense. But the actual, verifiable reports of the facts thoroughly debunk it. Which no doubt is why you avoid including links for that junk like a vampire avoids Sunlight.
Now, please regale us with nonsense about how many millions of lives Trump saved by creating Trump's Pandemic in the first place when he ignored all expert dire warnings not to do something so stupid and dangerous as to defund and remove the very Pandemic Prevention and Response Team officials put in place to give a critical 2-3 month heads up about potential Pandemic spreads as soon as the earliest cases emerge, from 2018 and into 2019 right up to 5 months before those first Covid-19 cases emerged in China.
Russiagate proven by Trump's appointees to have been a legitimate investigation
[QUOTE=JustTK;2784117]More truth coming out. USA is a free speech democracy??
[URL]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iD6BAX_IGHg[/URL][/QUOTE]Trump's own Durham Investigation found there was ample reason for and no notable wrongdoing involved in the investigation of his and his team's extraordinarily tight connection with Russia:
Not a "hoax" Not a "witch hunt".
[B]Trumps Russiagate Redemption Fizzles as Durham Probe Limps Toward a Close.
Trump promised the three-year Durham investigation would reveal conspiracy at the FBI. Instead, its slinking toward an end after failing to uncover the crime of the century.[/B]
[URL]https://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2022-10-26/trumps-russiagate-redemption-fizzles-as-durham-probe-limps-toward-a-close[/URL]
[QUOTE]The investigation ended not just with a fizzle, but with a complete reversal of what Donald Trump portrayed, says Barbara McQuade, former U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Michigan and current legal analyst and professor at the University of Michigan Law School.[/QUOTE]Worse for Trump, they only uncover additional damning evidence of crimes commited by him and tried to bury it:
[B]Trumps Own Appointees Reportedly Opened Criminal Investigation Into Him As Part Of Durham Russia Probe[/B]
[URL]https://www.forbes.com/sites/alisondurkee/2023/01/26/trumps-own-appointees-reportedly-opened-criminal-investigation-into-him-as-part-of-durham-russia-probe/[/URL]
Oops. LOL.
Accolades from "Good Points" Tiny
[QUOTE=ChrisP;2784062]This allowed the US to maintain its global supremacy despite decades of clownworld economic policies which have led to a $30 trillion and rising national debt, hundreds of trillions of unfunded liabilities, and the outsourcing of most of our industry.[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=Goatscrot;2784106]The Petrodollar is a myth. Always has been.
[URL]https://www.forbes.com/sites/douglasbulloch/2018/04/26/the-petro-dollar-is-a-myth-the-petro-yuan-mere-fantasy/?sh=36edc83f6a14[/URL]
[URL]https://youtu.be/ICSdZbEMZd0[/URL][/QUOTE]Excellent points gentlemen. Yes, Goatscrot, what currency you use to transact isn't what's important. You can always convert from Renminbi to Euros or Dollars or whatever. And yes Chris, if it weren't for the dollar being the principle reserve currency, we'd be in a world of hurt. The USA can get away with public debt at 100% of GDP, but Argentina or Indonesia sure isn't going to get away with it.
I'm not a fan of the Iranian regime, and sure as hell wish Russia had not gone into Ukraine. But I believe the USA made a big mistake in confiscating the dollar reserves of both countries. That's giving China, Saudi Arabia, and other countries second thoughts about holding lots of dollars.
We've been blessed here in the USA. Other countries send us clothes, washing machines, toys, electronics, and even nubile young Latina strippers and hookers. And what do we send them in return? Dollars. It's a great deal. We get their stuff. They get paper in return. Well, I'm no economist, but I'm fearful a move away from the dollar could bring this all crashing down. And then all those Cuban cuties will end up in Shanghai or Frankfurt instead of Dallas.
