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- world@quokk.au
- cross-posted to:
- world@quokk.au
Lindsey Graham, the veteran Republican senator who has been pushing for war against Iran for decades, has issued a dire warning to the Iranian government, saying it was worth spending money to “take this regime down”.
“When this regime goes down, we are going to have a new Middle East, and we are going [to] make a tonne of money,” Graham, a longtime proponent of US military intervention abroad, told Fox News on Sunday.
Graham, who has been one of the Trump administration’s most vocal supporters of Israel and the war against Iran, appeared to suggest that the US abduction of Venezuela’s left-wing leader Nicolas Maduro and the attack on Iran were launched to gain control over each country’s oil supplies.
“Venezuela and Iran have 31 percent of the world’s oil reserves. We’re going to have a partnership with 31 percent of the known reserves. This is China’s nightmare. This is a good investment,” said Graham.
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Ah it’s the 2000s again. They’ll top it off with a global financial crisis. Probably the AI bubble collapsing or succeeding and destroying all the jobs.
Maybe the Americans will elect an Obama 2.0 after. Maybe not. There wasn’t MAGA last time. More likley it’ll be president mecha-Hitler or something this time around.
If we’re going by extremes maybe we can get a socialist president this time round? Actual universal healthcare?
Anyone else watch Rick and Morty, isn’t Graham basically Jerry in couple therapy place (mean outside of the ‘presenting’ that it does)? It’s just so subservient to whoever he latches on to. Mean from bomb Iran of McCain it just may be doing his previous hang on wishes here too. But seriously this guy is a senator that has a leadership ability of a wet noodle. Aren’t senators supposed to be strong in their own convictions? Mean maybe there’s lots I haven’t heard of Mr Graham but I don’t think McCain would be happy with his swap.
Least McCain had some principles and would now down to the orange turd, that’s the only good thing I saw from him (okay plus telling someone in an audience to be respectful of Obama, you’d never see that today)
Textbook psychopath. A truly immoral, sadistic, bloodthirsty bastard of the sort Hunter Thompson would conjure to represent the foulest archetype of American politics.
For those not old enough to remember, they said the Iraqi war would pay for itself with all of that oil.
It did not.
But, Graham isn’t talking “we” the US people, but “we” as in the club we’re not in, AKA bOtH pArTiEs Super Friends.
Someone already made tonne of money on forex. Looking at the chart the war is over and it was just a forex scam.
Make sure the shitbag’s grandchildren are fucking drafted! The MAGA fucks always said the USA has enough oil reserves to be self-sufficient. As usual, BS!
Conservatives are so clownishly selfish.
They’re the hamster that gets mad at the other hamster and shits in the shared food bowl out of spite.
meanwhile gas prices just doubled, thanks for that america. get rid of your fascist regime, please? :(
Please stop buying from the fascist regime and its allies, and please stop using the US dollar for international trade
please stop using the US dollar for international trade
Yeah I’ll get right on that, chief
Fantastic! That means no need to pay taxes for the next 3 years
Same old Republican party. Waste of oxygen IMHO.
No blood for oil. It was evil and stupid in the 00s, and it’s worse today now that oil is increasingly replaceable
The hilarious thing is that the American voter is supposed to be thinking of themselves when he says “we”. I would kinda understand the logic of continuing the forever war as a voter if everyone got a fat check once we ended the Iraq war. At least then I could understand that it is pure greed driving people to vote for war mongers.
In the end “we” is a small group of oil barons who made billions while footing the multi trillion bill to the tax payer. Unfortunately this just means that the average voter is greedy, but to stupid to actually benefit from their own avarice.
Still hoping for that trickle down 40 years later.
Golden Shower economics, surely the rich will start pissing on our heads any day now.
They softened it from horse and sparrow. See, if the horse eats enough there will be a lot left over for the sparrow that passes through undigested.
Basically, eat shit, commoners.
Fuck you “we.” “We” who!? When oil companies profit “we” don’t see a fucking dime of that money especially with your corporate “taxation” bullshit where they get loophole after loophole to pay nothing.
He means “the business.”
People like Graham treat the US like a corporation, and they are a model employee.
Yeah but on the upside you do get to pay for the bombs they’re dropping on Iranian kids.
Well, he means himself and his friends, which is what all politicians have always meant when they say “we” are going to benefit from their decisions.
“We, the people”… except for women, non white, non Protestants, poor, …
I guess that’s ok then. Just go to war for money, loke every fascist regime ever.
Lots of people made lots of money off the German Nazis.
That didnt make it right then, and it doesnt make it right now.
Profits over people once again.
Republicans are genuinely traitors to the US. It’s hard to put into words how much I hate them.
Traitors to humanity
Aaaannnddd there it is!
It’s all the American government has ever cared about.
Assault! Homicide! Blood for money, money!
As if there was any pretext before
