Phil1111

Hope, thats endearing. Democrats want facts which is an absence of lying. How are they going to keep their base when they start behaving like republicans? No, until one person in California holds the same power as one in N. Dakota. Until the SC appointments are re-balanced. I'd suggest some bourbon with your hope.To temper the disappointment.

Happy days are here again. Where is that 1/2 full bottle of Scotch?

Lavrov: Russia is not squeaky clean and not ashamed Brent/FOX/trump: Republicans are not squeaky clean and not ashamed.

Your honorary PhD in "GOP Newspeak" is ready. Ingrepublicanism is ready for your talents. Once you have mastered unlimited and unrestricted lying. You can take your $20 million a year job at the News Corporation Ltd.

Quite imperial of you to ask Americans to be accurate in prose and fact.

Some more stunning hypocrisy from the UK this time. Boris Johnson had an ethics advisor! Boris Johnson had his second ethics adviser in less than two years quit his post.

Don't choke on that self serving baloney sandwich. "After years of federal lease sales to oil, gas and coal companies, environmentalists had hopes that President Biden would end the fossil fuel bonanza. But one year after announcing a halt to any new federal oil and gas leasing, Biden has outpaced Donald Trump in issuing drilling permits on public lands. After setting a record for the largest offshore lease sale last year in the Gulf of Mexico, the Interior Department plans to auction off oil and gas drilling rights on more than 200,000 acres across Western states by the end of March, followed by 1 million acres in the Cook Inlet, off the coast of Alaska. The administration’s actions reveal an uncomfortable truth: Although Biden supports a shift to cleaner sources of energy, he has failed to curb fossil fuel development in the United States. His push to suspend federal oil and gas auctions has run headlong into political and legal challenges,"January 27, 2022 WP.

She is correct and once again Brent wrong. Even after four years of trump US oil production is currently 600 barrels a day higher under President Biden.

He could be right Joe. In typical GOP behavioral traits "frequent schadenfreude can indicate a mental health condition. People with personality diagnoses such as antisocial personality may delight in the pain of others and have little regard for others' well-being." I'd have to check but this would be only the second time in a year that he's got something right.

What a shortage at Walmart of, private label, fade defying, bleach infused, hair dye?

In truth both Brent and FOX operate the same. Except FOX does it for Russia and the GOP.

When Americans are born. The doctor slaps them on the bum and declares their sacred birth-rites. "You are entitled to guns, gas and god. All are to serve you".

Testimony was that the average donation was $17 from trump supporters. Brent is likely pissed that he donated $17,000 and didn't get the 10/1 matching donation like he was promised.

US refiners are banking massive profits in 2022. "Oil exploration is down from its 2014 high because the largest oil exploration companies are opting to divert their cash to shareholders in the form of dividends, share buybacks, and debt paydowns rather than exploring for more oil. For instance, according to Bloomberg, in February, Occidental announced a $3 billion buyback program and a $5 billion paydown of its nearly $28 billion debt load. To be fair, for the overall industry, the number of rigs drilling for oil has increased 60% to 574 in the last year — which is nevertheless down some 64% from its 2014 high of 1,609, according to Baker Hughes BHI -5.5% .... the gap between the price that refineries pay for oil and what they charge for gasoline — is a very wide 60%, according to the Journal. Sanctions against Russia could remove 1.4 million barrels per days of gasoline from the global supply. The result is higher refinery profits. For example, East Coast gasoline margins are up five-fold in the last two years — approaching $50 a barrel, noted the Journal. with its shares up 87% in 2022 — is Valero Energy which “engages in the manufacture and marketing of transportation fuels and other petrochemical products.” ... In the first quarter of 2022, Valero reported revenues up 89% to $37 billion — 20% more than analysts expected. Its profits soared 229% to $905 million — up 168% from the year before. " Oil refineries are making nearly five times as much money from refining petrol as they did year ago, data show. "Figures from the data company Refinitiv show how the business of refining oil has become so profitable in the past year. On the 8 June 2021, refiners were making $9.26 per barrel from refining petrol, and $6.84 per barrel refining diesel. On Wednesday, they were making $43.11 on petrol, up 366%, and $51.13 on diesel, up 648%. Figures published by BP, which owns a number of refineries in Europe and the US, shows its own measure of refining profits, the ‘Refining Marker Margin’, up from $7.7 dollars per barrel to $35.7 over the past year. US oil giant ExxonMobil owns a number of refineries, including Fawley in Hampshire, the UK’s largest. Last month the Financial Times quoted its chief executive Darren Woods as saying he did not think that the “very, very high margin environment” was “good for economies around the world.” Just as a tiger can't change its stripes. Brent just can't get past FOX talking points. i.e. Biden is responsible for gas prices.

UK conservative. OK to flee from German or Russian oppression. European Jews and blue eyed Ukrainians ok. Because the mix of local color wont be challenged. Others fleeing war, drought Wear funny clothes. They should die besides their cattle and sheep.

FOXhounds are trained to avoid distractions.

So you're saying nothing much in Russia has changed in 80 years. Life is still cheap?

Russians are being fed into a Ukrainian sausage grinder. Perhaps 28,000 dead in 109 days, or about 250 a day. Russia is still generating about a billion a day in revenue from oil and gas. Ukrainians are definitely short of artillery ammunition. When shooting tasks are sent to Ukrainian guns. Its only a couple shells each time and drones from the "successful" missions show lots of targets left over. But Ukraine is holding ground and Russia is having problems. T-64s like you say. So no thermal, no fire on the move capability and likely very unreliable. Recruitment is now 18 years old -60 and contracts as short as four months. So here is your Kalashnikov and off to the front you go. Training, nobody needs no stinking training. Putin is doing everything possible to avoid paying out death benefits. All to keep the ruble propped up. Russia reduced interest rates this week. So its working.

In the UK 62% say immigration benefits the country v 29% that are conservative and, well, wrong. "migrants living in the UK contribute £2,300 more to public purse each year than the average adult, suggesting a net contribution of £78,000 to the exchequer over their lifespan in the UK."

The British government says it wants to put the "criminal smuggling gangs who operate dangerous Channel crossings out of business." “We cannot allow people traffickers to put lives at risk and our world-leading partnership will help break the business model of these ruthless criminals," Johnson said on Twitter. Well that will do it. The refugees can enter the smuggling chain again in Rwanda. Then head back to the UK. I thought it was all about "safety" and putting "smugglers out of business".

I didn't think it was possible.But Boris has outdone trump. But in an effort to distract from covidpartygate. Boris Johnson has initiated a new immigrant process. "Boris Johnson said 50 people have been told they will be sent to Rwanda within the next fortnight, and that he was ready to fight with “leftie lawyers” seeking to challenge the government’s plans for refugees. Under the £120m scheme announced last month, people deemed to have entered the UK unlawfully will be transported to the east African country, where they will be allowed to apply for the right to settle." Blame the left, lawyers, "people smugglers", etc. Classic populist distraction methodology. How can UK citizens show their faces or passports anywhere in the world?

"On election night 2016, former Fox News director Jack Hanick was in Moscow — attending a pro-GOP party,...The United States was “losing its moral core and fiber,” Hanick continued. By contrast, he praised the moral awakening in the land led by Vladimir Putin. “Russia has been embracing Orthodox Christianity. This has been a major change. Russia is moving toward Christianity; America is moving away from Christianity.”...Today, this self-styled defender of moral fiber is jailed in London, awaiting extradition on charges he violated U.S. law ...“Hanick knowingly chose to help Malofeyev spread his destabilizing messages,” said Assistant Attorney General Matthew G. Olsen, announcing the indictment last week. The charges put Hanick, 71, at risk of 25 years in prison." Today Hannity, Carlson and other FOX celebrities pander and get paid by Putin. So its the same old same old. Murdoch's cut from Putin is undisclosed. Kremlin Spokespeople Are Reliable Sources — at Least to Sean Hannity "Hannity’s Kremlin sourcing is only the latest in a series of Russian-esque diversion tactics broadcast on Fox News since the beginning of the Ukranian invasion." Putin’s Goons Say Tucker Carlson Is Must-See TV "on March 3, the Kremlin circulated a talking point to state-run media outlets telling them it was of the utmost importance to run Carlson’s commentary. “It is essential to use as much as possible fragments of broadcasts of the popular Fox News host Tucker Carlson, who sharply criticizes the actions of the United States [and] NATO, their negative role in unleashing the conflict in Ukraine, [and] the defiantly provocative behavior from the leadership of the Western countries and NATO towards the Russian Federation and towards President Putin, personally,”

Currently "Layoffs fell to a two-decade low in April while job openings retreated from record highs, showing that the white-hot labor market is cooling slightly. Employers advertised 11.4 million jobs at the end of April, the Labor Department said Wednesday. That's down from nearly 11.9 million in March, the highest level on records that date back 20 years." Gee! full employment and 11.4 million job openings. Perhaps if that caravan of prospective new workers was met with open friendly arms. There would be workers to serve more people and manufacture more goods. To pay taxes and drive up US tax revenues. To drive down inflation associated with a new supply of goods and services.

Well the GOP is painting itself in its true colors. "Carl P. Paladino, a Republican running for a House seat in Western New York, praised Adolf Hitler last year for inspiring his followers, describing the fascist dictator as “the kind of leader we need today.” "he was impressed by how the German leader and head of the Nazi Party “aroused the crowd.“He would get up there screaming these epithets and these people were just, they were hypnotized by him,”. He previously stated that children should not be “brainwashed” into thinking that being gay was acceptable and suggested that Michelle Obama, the former first lady, should be “let loose in the outback of Zimbabwe.” Coming soon Paladino as a GOP presidential candidate. With FOX approval.