LONDON, Aug 16 (Reuters) - OPEC and its allies, including Russia, believe oil markets do not need more oil than they plan to release in the coming months, despite U.S. pressure to add supplies to check an oil price rise, four sources told Reuters.
So Biden allows Russia to have their pipeline to increase their supply of oil at the same time he shuts down our pipeline causing a shortage. Then he goes to Putin and OPEC and asks if they could kindly produce more and share.
It's amazing that this rock of international experience that we call our President has been completely befuddled and outsmarted at pretty much every turn. Perhaps we needed someone with "tangible" international experience, rather than someone whose foreign policy expertise is finding jobs for family and friends.
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While Lil Schitty yells the sky is falling again, blaming Biden for fuel costs instead of the fact US gas consumption is getting higher as the country comes out of the Trump Covid Coma.........!!!!! Maybe you can post Biden stopped fracking and closed lands down to oil production like the goat fucker alleged....!!!!!!! bwaaaaaapaaaaaa!!!!
he shuts down our pipeline causing a shortage!!!!!
BWAAAAAAPAAAAAA!!!!!!! What pipe did biden shut down, Lil Schitty!!!! This will be most amusing!
Afghanistan Pullout Won’t Reduce Military Spending
August 17, 2021 at 4:00 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard
Roll Call:
“The Taliban’s rapid takeover of Afghanistan could mean changes for the billions of dollars the Pentagon sought in the next fiscal year, but is unlikely to change the trajectory of the larger defense policy and spending bills currently under consideration in Congress.”
Taliban Pledged Safe Passage of Civilians to Airport
August 17, 2021 at 3:04 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 89 Comments
“Newly empowered Taliban militants
have informed the U.S. that they are prepared to provide safe passage for civilians attempting to flee Afghanistan through an airport in Kabul,” CNBC reports.
Said national security adviser Jake Sullivan: “We intend to hold them to that commitment.”
Ford’s Approval Rose After Troops Left Vietnam
August 17, 2021 at 1:31 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 103 Comments
An interesting
observation from Domenico Montanaro:
“There are a lot of comparisons being made between the fall of Saigon and chaos in Kabul. I’m not saying this will happen, but it’s a point to note that we don’t know everything… After Saigon fell on April 30, 1975, Ford’s approval rating went up — from 37% in March to 51% by June.”
Inside Biden’s Lagging Response to the Fall of Afghanistan
August 17, 2021 at 1:30 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 29 Comments
Washington Post:
“One close Biden foreign policy ally, who is in regular contact with the White House and the State Department, said the president’s team would never have let him leave for Camp David had they known just how quickly Afghanistan would implode amid the president’s decision to withdraw all U.S. troops by Sept. 11.”
Biden Freezes Billions of Dollars In Afghan Reserves
August 17, 2021 at 1:27 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 33 Comments
Washington Post:
“The Biden administration on Sunday froze Afghan government reserves held in U.S. bank accounts, blocking the Taliban from accessing billions of dollars held in U.S. institutions.”
Taliban Promises to Honor Women’s Rights
August 17, 2021 at 1:25 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 53 Comments
“The Taliban
vowed Tuesday to respect women’s rights, forgive those who resisted them and ensure a secure Afghanistan as part of a publicity blitz aimed at convincing world powers and a fearful population that they have changed,” the AP reports.
“Older generations remember the Taliban’s ultraconservative Islamic views, which included severe restrictions on women as well as public stonings and amputations before they were ousted by the U.S-led invasion following the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks.”
Thousands of Afghans Remain Stranded
August 17, 2021 at 1:21 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 17 Comments
Wall Street Journal:
“Military flights resumed as the U.S. sent additional troops to secure the U.S.-controlled airport’s perimeter, following two days of chaos there as Westerners and Afghans raced to escape the country.
“However, many thousands of Afghans who had been employed by Western embassies and nongovernment organizations in Kabul remained stranded and unable to reach the airport for evacuation flights as the Taliban erected checkpoints at airport entrances, whipping and beating Afghans who attempted to cross.”
Intelligence Warned of Afghan Military Collapse
August 17, 2021 at 1:06 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 83 Comments
“Classified assessments
by American spy agencies over the summer painted an increasingly grim picture of the prospect of a Taliban takeover of Afghanistan and warned of the rapid collapse of the Afghan military, even as President Biden and his advisers said publicly that was unlikely to happen as quickly,” the New York Times reports.
“By July, many intelligence reports grew more pessimistic, questioning whether any Afghan security forces would muster serious resistance and whether the government could hold on in Kabul, the capital.”
Key takeaway:
“Intelligence agencies predicted that should the Taliban seize cities, a cascading collapse could happen rapidly and the Afghan security forces were at high risk of falling apart.”
NATO Chief Blames Afghan Leaders for Collapse
August 17, 2021 at 1:05 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 21 Comments
NATO Secretary General
Jens Stoltenberg blames Afghan leaders for the “tragedy” and says the alliance is surprised by the speed of the Taliban victory in Afghanistan, Al-Jazeera reports.
Said Stoltenberg:
“Ultimately, the Afghan political leadership failed to stand up to the Taliban and to achieve the peaceful solution that Afghans desperately wanted.”
THERE ABOVE YOU HAVE SOME REAL REPORTING ABOUT
AFGHANISTAN.
AND THEN THERE'S THIS:
Lost Study Suggests Covid-19 Came From Animals
August 17, 2021 at 3:17 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 81 Comments
“The origin story
of Covid-19 remains a mystery mired in contentious geopolitical debate,” Bloomberg reports.
“But a research paper that languished in publishing limbo for a year and a half contains meticulously collected data and photographic evidence supporting scientists’ initial hypothesis—that the outbreak stemmed from infected wild animals—which prevailed until speculation that SARS-CoV-2 escaped from a nearby lab gained traction.”
Pro-Trump Social Network Used for Sharing Child Porn
August 17, 2021 at 2:21 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 91 Comments
Gettr,
the pro-Trump Twitter alternative launched last month by close Trump adviser Jason Miller, is allowing users to share child exploitation images,” Vice News reports.
Five States Set Covid Case Records
August 17, 2021 at 1:50 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 96 Comments
CNBC:
“Five states broke records for the average number of daily new Covid cases over the weekend as the delta variant strains hospital systems across the U.S. and forces many states to reinstate public health restrictions.
“Florida, Louisiana, Hawaii, Oregon and Mississippi all reached new peaks in their seven-day average of new cases per day as of Sunday.
“On a per capita basis, Louisiana, Mississippi and Florida are suffering from the three worst outbreaks in the country.”
And why are we not surprised?
The Gateway Pundit sounds like some of them are good people but most of them are rapists and murderers.
Especially because they are Mooslimbs!
The additional $500 million that Biden is shelling out is likely just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the total of what will be spent in this crisis.
The Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan is expected to cause a mass migration of people that has not been seen since Obama’s horror show in Syria. Countless numbers will flee the now terrorist-state, with 3 million expected to flood into Europe alone.
“We can assume that up to three million Afghans will make their way to Europe in the foreseeable future,” German humanitarian development worker Sybille Schnehage told the German news outlet WDR.
“I always ask people: Why don’t you go to Saudi Arabia? They are Muslims. This is your culture. The answer is always: No, Germany is better,”
How many of them will come to the US?
The US State Department has been granting ‘Special Immigrant Visas’ (SIV) to Afghans who were employed by, or on behalf of, the U.S. government – 80,000 individuals in total. Mooslimb welfare queens!
The program is also expected to expand soon to include displaced ‘refugees.’
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/08/biden-admin-plans-immediately-house-30000-afghans-military-bases-us-authorizes-500m-relocate-refugees/
This is a symptom of alzheimers disease.
It's a mumbling like you say about Sleepy Joe
So Biden allows Russia to have their pipeline to increase their supply of oil at the same time he shuts down our pipeline causing a shortage. Then he goes to Putin and OPEC and asks if they could kindly produce more and share.
It's amazing that this rock of international experience that we call our President has been completely befuddled and outsmarted at pretty much every turn. Perhaps we needed someone with "tangible" international experience, rather than someone whose foreign policy expertise is finding jobs for family and friends.
That describes Trump, not Sleepy Joe Biden.
Perhaps we needed someone with "tangible" international experience, rather than someone whose foreign policy expertise is finding jobs for family and friends.
That describes crack addict Hunter and Joe's brother to a fucking "T".
Gettr,
the pro-Trump Twitter alternative launched last month by close Trump adviser Jason Miller, is allowing users to share child exploitation images,” Vice News reports.
Vice news.
LOL.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ia7fUQXskvA
Blogger Roger Amick said...
This is a symptom of alzheimers disease.
Says the alcoholic confined to a nursing home.
More psychological projection from the alky.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ia7fUQXskvA
That’s fricking hilarious and so true about Vice, the pedo and his GODdard
Greg Abbott Tests Positive for Coronavirus
August 17, 2021 at 5:15 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R),
a staunch opponent of mask mandates, tested positive for the coronavirus, the Texas Tribune reports.
“Abbott, who is fully vaccinated, is not experiencing any symptoms and isolating at the Governor’s Mansion.”
Washington Post: “Abbott is among the Republican governors who have resisted public-health mandates aimed at stemming the tide of the virus’s delta variant, which has caused a new spike in cases as the country attempts to reopen schools, restaurants and other businesses.”
And Texas is naND
U.S. Halted Dollar Shipments To Afghanistan
August 17, 2021 at 5:13 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 1 Comment
“The Biden administration
last week canceled bulk shipments of dollars headed for Afghanistan as Taliban fighters were poised to take control of the capital city of Kabul, part of a continuing scramble to keep hundreds of millions of dollars out of the hands of the terrorist group,” the Wall Street Journal reports.
“The U.S. is also blocking Taliban access to government accounts managed by the Federal Reserve and other U.S. banks and working to prevent the group’s access to nearly half-billion dollars-worth of reserves at the International Monetary Fund.”
Ex-Police Turned Rioters Reject Plea Deal
August 17, 2021 at 4:56 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 55 Comments
Two former police officers from Virginia have rejected initial plea deal offers by the U.S. Justice Department to resolve charges stemming from their role in storming the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, Reuters reports.
One of the men was ordered to remain in jail last month after prosecutors said he violated his bail arrangement by amassing a large arsenal of weapons after the Jan. 6 riot.
“Abbott, who is fully vaccinated, is not experiencing any symptoms and isolating at the Governor’s Mansion.”
This is how retarded we've gotten over the fucking FLU.
This is how retarded we've gotten over the fucking FLU.
But it’s all the pederast, the purveyor of pandemic porn has to offer others thoughts
Not an original though in his empty head
That’s fracking hilarious and
BWAAAAAAAAA!!!!! And the GOP's attempt to demonize biden after ignoring donnie for 4 years!!!!!!!
You do mean THE FUCKING TRUMP FLU THAT HAS KILLED 618K AMERICANS AND COST BILLIONS IN HOSPITAL BILLS AND LOST INCOMES......THAT FLU, SHORTY????????
THE FUCKING FAUCI FLU THAT HAS KILLED 618K AMERICANS AND COST BILLIONS IN HOSPITAL BILLS AND LOST INCOMES......THAT FLU, NOW THE BIDEN FLU VARIANT
fixed it for you VERY lo iq
Disclose.tv 🚨
https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1427659962759720960
Unlike Biden yesterday, the Taliban spokesman Mujahid took a lot of questions after his speech.
people all over the world recognize how weak Biden is
Well I saw Pelosi was in San Francisco taking in a Giant game in luxury
Good Times for the elites !!!
John Hayward
https://twitter.com/Doc_0/status/1427704632864919556
Are the social media giants going to start protecting their man Joe Biden by censoring all the posts of trapped Americans pleading for rescue in Afghanistan?
interesting, they did censor Trump but assisted the Taliban.
Tough choice for them
Roger Amick said...
Maskless karma
Governor Bruce Abbott is infected!
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott tests positive for COVID-19
Gov. Abbott is fully vaccinated and will Regeneron's monoclonal antibody treatment
yawn
good guess on the name though roger !!!
rrb said...
“Abbott, who is fully vaccinated, is not experiencing any symptoms and isolating at the Governor’s Mansion.”
This is how retarded we've gotten over the fucking FLU.
alky just about had a stroke over this
that's probably the excuse for why Biden is hiden
and anything to deflect from Biden's many crises.
Rupert Stone
https://twitter.com/RupertStone83/status/1427634562746798101
Al Jazeera reporting from Torkham on the Afghanistan-Pakistan border. People there are "jubilant" about the Taliban's return to power, apparently. No big flow of refugees out of Afghanistan; instead flow of people going in the opposite direction!
brilliant
Sara Cook
The below note went out this afternoon to American citizens requesting to be evacuated from Afghanistan, @alanacbs reports. It instructs people to come to Hamid Karzai Intl Airport in Kabul, but says the US govt cannot guarantee their safety as they make the trip.
@CBSNews
https://twitter.com/saraecook/status/1427693329249099795
You're on your own
Tell them Uncle Joe sent you !!!
President Bush wants to let Mooslimbs to come here!
Former President George W. Bush said the United States must "cut the red tape for refugees" in Afghanistan who are trying to flee in the wake of the chaos caused by the Taliban's rapid takeover of the country.
"The Afghans now at greatest risk are the same ones who have been on the forefront of progress inside their nation," Bush said Monday in a statement, adding that "we have the responsibility and the resources to secure safe passage for them now, without bureaucratic delay."
Bush, during his first year as president, launched the war in Afghanistan in the month after the 9/11 attacks to topple the Taliban-run government and target Al Qaeda. But the United States' combat mission there became America's longest war, provoking criticism and debate over the protracted fighting in the region that has led to military and civilian lives' lost.
President Joe Biden said he had informed Bush about his plans to fully withdraw U.S. troops from Afghanistan before his public announcement in April.
Bush said in an interview last month with the German state broadcaster Deutsche Welle that he was against Biden's decision and that troop withdrawal from Afghanistan would be particularly devastating for Afghan women, children and other innocent people.
Biden signaled that the U.S. military mission would end on Aug. 31. But as the drawdown of troops and personnel unfolded this past week, the Taliban, which hold ultraconservative Islamic views, began seizing cities across Afghanistan at a frenzied pace and entered Kabul, the capital, on Sunday.
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Biden, speaking to the American public from the White House on Monday, said, "I stand squarely behind my decision," arguing that he was faced with a choice to either follow through with a drawdown that was mapped out by his predecessors or escalate the conflict into its third decade and ultimately put more American lives at risk.
Amid images of desperate Afghans flocking to airports to escape the country, Biden has faced mounting criticism from Republicans and some Democrats who say Biden failed to anticipate the political collapse and ensure that the thousands of Afghans who assisted U.S. forces over the 20-year war effort could exit the country before the Taliban reasserted power.
Bush on Monday said he and wife, Laura, were "watching the tragic events unfolding in Afghanistan with deep sadness," but remained "confident that the evacuation efforts will be effective" because of the military, diplomatic corps and intelligence community working on the ground.
Charlie Spiering
https://twitter.com/charliespiering/status/1427697829003337732
“I don’t have an exact time for you” says Jen Psaki when asked when Biden will return to the White House. “We’re still working those through.”
Well at least she rushed back
Guess the flood of criticism shamed them
and I see they now quickly setup a meeting next week with Biden and the UK
got to "look" engaged
Robert Utsey
https://twitter.com/RUtsey/status/1427693475932393482
Biden yesterday: 'We planned for every contingency.'
Now his National Security Advisor refuses to commit to evacuating all American citizens trapped behind Taliban lines.
Rescuing Americans isn't a 'hypothetical.'
Biden lied
Looking straight into the eyes of the American people
and is still cowardly hiding
Idrees Ali
https://twitter.com/idreesali114/status/1427345899152453636
Nearly a half dozen U.S. officials (across the administration) tell Reuters that there is increasing frustration and even anger with the way Biden has handled the evacuation from Kabul, saying his White House wasted too much time in the months leading up to last week.
Officials say the military for weeks had been telling the White House that they were ready to do more, in terms of basing and flights from evacuating Afghans, but a decision didn't come until it was too late.
Officials tell Reuters that an address from Biden today, well after the Taliban military advances began, is far too late. They added that some of the defenses given by the White House, including NSA Sullivan earlier today, are baffling.
missed this earlier
too much information is flooding out
while Biden sleeps
counting on big tech and the state media to cover for him
President Bush wants to let Mooslimbs to come here!
WhoooHooo maybe they’ll go to Minneapolis and hook up with the Somali’s
The Republican Party, which controlled the White House and the Senate when the pandemic struck, bears most of the responsibility for this. But it is important to understand that there is no inherent, institutional reason that the Republican Party should be against wearing masks, promoting vaccines and following CDC guidance. There is no inherent, institutional reason that the Republican Party should have been trying to cover up how bad the pandemic would be, feuding with health officials who spoke truthfully, and strutting around acting like the pandemic was a globalist conspiracy that could be overcome by being macho. The Republican Party exists to protect the interests of the rich. The Republican Party exists to cut taxes and regulations on business. It is evil, manipulative and uncaring, but it is not, institutionally speaking, stupid. Our federal government’s reaction to the coronavirus was stupid. That was the result of a man named Donald Trump.
Consider another world in which a different, generic Republican had been president in 2020 — Mitt Romney, or Mitch McConnell, or some other replacement-level politician who generally embodied the Republican Party’s beliefs. It is easy to believe that that person would have fought against providing Covid relief to the poor, and rushed to protect real estate interests at the expense of renters, and maybe even advocated exempting churches from the shutdown rules to score political points. All of those things are characteristic of Republicans. What I do not believe is that the average Republican president would have decided, “I am going to sow doubt about wearing masks during a pandemic that is spread by airborne droplets.” I do not believe that the average Republican president would have decided, “I am going to loudly and publicly cast doubt on the guidance of my own scientific personnel and advocate for a host of quack remedies just because I like being the center of attention.” Those are things that only Donald Trump would do.
And he did, and now 40% of our fellow citizens won’t wear masks and we can’t convince huge swaths of the country to get vaccinated and therefore some states are seeing their worst Covid numbers since the pandemic began, despite the widespread availability of effective vaccines. This insane and unnecessary state of affairs is traceable to the fact that Donald Trump, the man, is a fucking stupid person. After many years with Trump as the leader of the Republicans, we tend to assume that his own characteristics are those of the party. But it would have been wholly unremarkable in the very recent past for a Republican president to do all the typical bad things that Republicans do, but also to follow the guidance of the CDC during a public health emergency. The difference between anti-vax lunatics and staunch anti-maskers being a tiny percentage of Americans and being the enormous portion of Americans that they are today is Donald Trump. He set this tone from the very top. He doubted from the beginning. He downplayed all of this from day one. His cowardly party followed him, and just like that, wearing masks were a political issue, rather than a common-sense one. It did not have to happen.
I am not excusing the rest of the political class, by any means. In some ways, they are even more loathsome than Trump himself — many of them followed his lead for purely political reasons, even though they understood well that he is a dangerous moron. But the fact remains that had Trump himself not been such a bizarre, foolish, conspiratorial narcissist, we could have easily had a nation that saw the coronavirus and our response to it as a health issue, not a political one. Because Donald Trump needed to be the big boss birthday boy and smarter than everyone else and always successful and never wrong, he denied and obfuscated and argued and eventually caused tens of millions of his acolytes to believe that wearing a mask is tantamount to the end of American freedom. That is on him.
Many people would have died in this pandemic no matter what. Even the most responsible countries had a learning curve, during which the disease spread. The position we find ourselves in today, in August of 2021, half a year after vaccines became available to the public, as local school board meetings descend into screaming matches over mask mandates and intensive care units in Louisiana and Mississippi overflow, is not the natural result of the virus. It is the result of political actions. And those deadly political actions can all be traced back to the determination of Donald Trump to do the stupid things that he did, causing his pathetic minions in the Republican Party to mimic him, and convincing millions of Americans who didn’t know better that the danger they face does not exist.
It is fair to guess that, compared to even a semi-competent but not deranged Republican president, America has suffered hundreds of thousands more fatalities during this pandemic than necessary. We could have quite easily had a president who was racist, who protected the rich at the interest of the poor, who was just as bad as Nixon or George W. Bush, but who was not irrational enough to think that there is a reason to doubt that a mask can help stop the spread of infectious droplets expelled from human mouths. We could, today, be wrapping up the vaccinations of just about everyone. Instead we are still mired in a disaster. Donald Trump’s hands are small, but they hold an entire war’s worth of dead bodies.
TDS TDS TDS TDS TDS TDS alky etc.
While Lil Schitty yells the sky is falling again, blaming Biden for fuel costs instead of the fact US gas consumption is getting higher as the country comes out of the Trump Covid Coma....
Well BWAAA, rising demand for fuel seems to be a piss-poor time to cancel construction on oil pipelines and halt all oil drilling on federal lands.
Biden is the definition of stupid.
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