Not a defense but an explanation
The oil on those tankers belongs to someone. The US would have to steal Indian, Chinese, or someone else’s oil if they seized those tankers. This would cause even more chaos.
The price of the little remaining unsold oil outside of the Persian Gulf (the spot price for oil) would skyrocket.
I don’t know, but Asheville NC got the Blue Ridge Parkway because their representative was the last vote needed for Social Security.
Time for the Tankies to form up the circular firing squad
(With enough Putin bots to give it legs)
What’s that on his neck?
We need to designate one sacrificial person to watch it to get the list of advertisers so we can boycott the hell out of them
THEN RELEASE THE REST OF THEM!!!
What is being missed here is
EVEN MARGERY TAYLOR GREEN IS GETTING SUPPORT BY TELLING THE TRUTH
which leads us to ask
DEMOCRATS IN OFFICE, WHY IS THIS SO HARD?!?!?!
These over the top actions are distractions from the fact that he has not released the Epstein files as REQUIRED BY LAW.
We are close to the end of this.
Keep pushing for the files
They are desperate to start an insurrection so they can cancel the 2026 midterms
If Tuberville said it, and it’s not about football, there is a 100% chance it is complete blithering.
Because we love that Donny
I wonder if Lemmy is all Gen X
Schumer negotiated the deal, scheduled the vote, and arranged for enough Senators not facing election in 2026 so he could vote against it.
Just means recently not uniquely first
We got him!
This proves Trump is guilty!
He has to resign in disgrace!
/s
We are often tripped up by trolls.
Billionaires (think Koch Brothers) and authoritarian enemy governments spend untold sums funding troll armies to play the game called:
Let’s you and him fight.
They come with their wedge issues and purity tests and they are very effective.
As soon as we make any headway at all, they come with fresh horrors about transgender girls in high school sports or new pushes to ban guns.
Those issues are perfectly designed to scare any center right (or even center center) supporters back to the GOP.
That could be true if you ignore all of the actual events that took place
Lefty Fundamentalist purity tests are what got us Trump in the first place
How about lets win something before we dismantle our army
Let’s see what come out of conference