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EasterJoy
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What is your point? If by “drain the swamp” you mean find a candidate who isn’t all financially cozy with the Saudis, it would appear 2016 wasn’t your election year. Good goal…not happening in all ways this time around.
From Trump’s speech in Saudi Arabia:
Now, there is even more blessed news I am pleased to share with you. My meetings with King Salman, the Crown Prince, and the Deputy Crown Prince, have been filled with great warmth, good will, and tremendous cooperation. Yesterday, we signed historic agreements with the Kingdom that will invest almost $400 billion in our two countries and create many thousands of jobs in America and Saudi Arabia.
This landmark agreement includes the announcement of a $110 billion Saudi-funded defense purchase – and we will be sure to help our Saudi friends to get a good deal from our great American defense companies. This agreement will help the Saudi military to take a greater role in security operations.
cnn.com/2017/05/21/politics/trump-saudi-speech-transcript/index.html
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"President Donald Trump’s downtown DC hotel has received about $270,000 from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, new lobbying disclosures first reported by The Daily Caller show.
The payments were for lodging, catering, and parking at the hotel. They came through public relations firm Quorvis MSLGroup, which is working on behalf of the Saudi Government to lobby against the Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act, or JASTA. JASTA would allow victims of terrorist attacks to sue foreign governments, and has been staunchly criticized by the Saudi government as it could result in Saudi Arabia being held financially responsibly for the 9/11 terrorist attacks."
thinkprogress.org/trump-hotel-received-270-000-from-saudi-backed-lobbying-campaign-6270abe65091/
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"The Trump Organization has said it scouted a hotel deal in Saudi Arabia in recent years but ultimately opted not to pursue it. The company had set up eight corporate entities that appeared to be linked to a Jidda, Saudi Arabia, deal in August 2015, after Mr. Trump had begun his campaign. Each of those has since been canceled.
At a rally in Alabama in 2015, Mr. Trump suggested that he had benefited from the Saudis in his residential business, saying: “Saudi Arabia — and I get along great with all of them. They buy apartments from me. They spend $40 million, $50 million. Am I supposed to dislike them? I like them very much."
nytimes.com/2017/05/18/us/politics/trumps-business-ties-to-middle-east-precede-him.html
I would also be careful what you wish for. Jimmy Carter was Mr. High Road himself, but staying out of the Moscow Olympics was a terrible move. The results were predictably awful. (Did someone fail to remind him that LA had the next Olympics? Must have.)
From Trump’s speech in Saudi Arabia:
Now, there is even more blessed news I am pleased to share with you. My meetings with King Salman, the Crown Prince, and the Deputy Crown Prince, have been filled with great warmth, good will, and tremendous cooperation. Yesterday, we signed historic agreements with the Kingdom that will invest almost $400 billion in our two countries and create many thousands of jobs in America and Saudi Arabia.
This landmark agreement includes the announcement of a $110 billion Saudi-funded defense purchase – and we will be sure to help our Saudi friends to get a good deal from our great American defense companies. This agreement will help the Saudi military to take a greater role in security operations.
cnn.com/2017/05/21/politics/trump-saudi-speech-transcript/index.html
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"President Donald Trump’s downtown DC hotel has received about $270,000 from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, new lobbying disclosures first reported by The Daily Caller show.
The payments were for lodging, catering, and parking at the hotel. They came through public relations firm Quorvis MSLGroup, which is working on behalf of the Saudi Government to lobby against the Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act, or JASTA. JASTA would allow victims of terrorist attacks to sue foreign governments, and has been staunchly criticized by the Saudi government as it could result in Saudi Arabia being held financially responsibly for the 9/11 terrorist attacks."
thinkprogress.org/trump-hotel-received-270-000-from-saudi-backed-lobbying-campaign-6270abe65091/
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"The Trump Organization has said it scouted a hotel deal in Saudi Arabia in recent years but ultimately opted not to pursue it. The company had set up eight corporate entities that appeared to be linked to a Jidda, Saudi Arabia, deal in August 2015, after Mr. Trump had begun his campaign. Each of those has since been canceled.
At a rally in Alabama in 2015, Mr. Trump suggested that he had benefited from the Saudis in his residential business, saying: “Saudi Arabia — and I get along great with all of them. They buy apartments from me. They spend $40 million, $50 million. Am I supposed to dislike them? I like them very much."
nytimes.com/2017/05/18/us/politics/trumps-business-ties-to-middle-east-precede-him.html
I would also be careful what you wish for. Jimmy Carter was Mr. High Road himself, but staying out of the Moscow Olympics was a terrible move. The results were predictably awful. (Did someone fail to remind him that LA had the next Olympics? Must have.)
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Caldera
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Saudia Arabia is probably my biggest personal pet peeve. I’m not a blind Trump supporter. Draining the swamp in Washington is one of the big issues he ran on. If he plans to be cozy with SA while pretending to drain the swamp, he best start preparing to lose support for 2020.What is your point? If by “drain the swamp” you mean find a candidate who isn’t all financially cozy with the Saudis, it would appear 2016 wasn’t your election year. Good goal…not happening in all ways this time around.
But there certainly isn’t a Democrat worth voting for in place of him, either…
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Luke6_37
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It was a good news story, but surprisingly short on Republicans. Every elected politician mentioned in the report was a Democrat - even the one who proposed the amendments to restrict our involvement in Yemen that the [blank] House (i.e., Republican House - a.k.a. Paul Ryan) ruled out of order. The silence on the Republicans was deafening.Saudia Arabia is probably my biggest personal pet peeve. I’m not a blind Trump supporter. Draining the swamp in Washington is one of the big issues he ran on. If he plans to be cozy with SA while pretending to drain the swamp, he best start preparing to lose support for 2020.
But there certainly isn’t a Democrat worth voting for in place of him, either…
It is the kind of awkward twisting in the wind that Fox News reporters have to deal with all the time. I’m sure the political bias was an editorial decision. The argument that the Saudi’s use their oil revenue (they have no other revenue) to buy political favor is a valid one, but using Clinton as an example was weird. Presenting two facts 1) Clinton advocating for a hard line on Saudi Arabia in an email to Podesta, and 2) a 25 million dollar donation to the Clinton foundation, would have made a compelling argument, if the reporter had actually connected the dots to show it worked - which he did not. Perhaps consumers of Fox News don’t notice things like that, but those of us with half a brain who do not suffer from “Clinton Derangement Syndrome” are left wondering what was the point?
Here’s a simple solution to the problems posed by Saudi Arabia - stop buying their oil. No money = No power. Make the U.S. energy independent by investing in new technologies and green renewable energy. It’s no good trying to pressure the Saudi’s to change their religion, but we can limit their ability to fund radicals and spread their version of Islam to the rest of the world.
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Monte_RCMS
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One thing that France did was to lessen their dependence on oil.
France now gets 80% of its electricity from nuclear.
[The U.S. only gets around 20% of its electricity from nuclear.]
Get a copy of Ed Hiserodt’s book: “Underexposed - What If Radiation Is Actually Good for You?”
Useful book.
Excellent read.
France now gets 80% of its electricity from nuclear.
[The U.S. only gets around 20% of its electricity from nuclear.]
Get a copy of Ed Hiserodt’s book: “Underexposed - What If Radiation Is Actually Good for You?”
Useful book.
Excellent read.
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