U.S. Politics

[Laan Yaa Mo]

If it hadn't been for the slapping incident and subsequent monotonous press coverage I wouldn't have known there was an Oscar ceremony. I still don't know who won what.

Apparently, the Grammy Awards show was even more boring and irrelevant to anything meaningful.

[Shado]

Apparently, the myriad of award presentations in the fields of art, sports and entertainment are of importance to a large segment of world's population, especially Americans. Inevitably, gender, politics. race or religion creep into these venues and they become springboards for special intrests and personal agendas. I simply have no time nor inclination for these superfluous, self-congratulatory extravaganzas. I'd rather work a crossword puzzle.

[tamada]

What does this mean?

Big Oil Donated $383,000 To The Lawmakers Grilling Its Executives About Gas Prices. Almost All The Contributions Went To Republicans

https://www.forbes.com/sites/zacheverso ... publicans/

[pepesgrill]

we can put a little union jack in the corner of our

flag if it will ease tensions everyone else is
throwing off the yoke of brit tyranny. is a sad time

[Laan Yaa Mo]

we can put a little union jack in the corner of our

flag if it will ease tensions everyone else is
throwing off the yoke of brit tyranny. is a sad time

Check the state flag of Hawaii

[Kenr6583]

And in the meantime, Exxon posted a profit of $9.3 billion for Quarter 1 this year. I think it's about time these price gauging assholes get their billions of dollars in subsidies they get every year taken away.

[Doodoo]

The States is a place that breads GREED
Years back the CEO of Exxon retired He had brought Mobil and meshed it with Exxon. To show their gratitude he received a Retirement Package of $400 Million dollars/ At that time I was on an Exxon project and I asked some of the employees what they thought of this. The response was typical "Oh, yes he deserves it" I then asked who paid for it and of course they didnt know that the Public paid for it at the pump
Long live Capitalism

[pepesgrill]

Check the state flag of Hawaii

well, there you go . i was thinking of a much smaller corner mind you. seeing it in stark relief. its wrong

[tamada]

And in the meantime, Exxon posted a profit of $9.3 billion for Quarter 1 this year. I think it's about time these price gauging assholes get their billions of dollars in subsidies they get every year taken away.

The UK's governing party of the rich and favored has dismissed similar calls from the public and opposition parties for a windfall tax on fossil fuel producers.

They have chosen to raise funds by raising taxes to a level not seen since WWII. They are on the cusp of including the war in Ukraine as an excuse for inflicting more hardship on the lower classes while they cherry-pick their Russian sanctions while allowing their cronies to make like gangbusters. Right now, they are milking the Covid and global inflation rates excuses for what they're worth. Sound familiar?

[tamada]

we can put a little union jack in the corner of our

flag if it will ease tensions everyone else is
throwing off the yoke of brit tyranny. is a sad time

The Brits seem to be struggling throwing off the yoke of their own government's tyranny. Sad but true.

[tamada]

Check the state flag of Hawaii

well, there you go . i was thinking of a much smaller corner mind you. seeing it in stark relief. its wrong

That's Obamaland's flag, no? How could Donald have possibly overlooked that big red herring? Yuge even.

[Khun Paul]

Check the state flag of Hawaii

well, there you go . i was thinking of a much smaller corner mind you. seeing it in stark relief. its wrong

That's Obamaland's flag, no? How could Donald have possibly overlooked that big red herring? Yuge even.

I had in my youth when at home a neighbour who was an Idian Diplomat, he stated to me that in fact although the UK took over a couple of centuries a lot of wealth India was run far better under British Colonial Rule than now . Everyone had to follow the same law. even the trains ran on time ...lol Not saying it was right just a window into the real world .

[panorama]

I used to work with a Burmese refugee many years ago here in Udon. He was lawyer in Burma and he often told me he was thankful for British common law.

[stattointhailand]

Check the state flag of Hawaii

well, there you go . i was thinking of a much smaller corner mind you. seeing it in stark relief. its wrong

That's Obamaland's flag, no? How could Donald have possibly overlooked that big red herring? Yuge even.

I had in my youth when at home a neighbour who was an Idian Diplomat, he stated to me that in fact although the UK took over a couple of centuries a lot of wealth India was run far better under British Colonial Rule than now . Everyone had to follow the same law. even the trains ran on time ...lol Not saying it was right just a window into the real world .

Not too difficult to run the trains on time when the timetable is Dep X Tuesday arr Y Friday

[pepesgrill]

Huuuuuge when did brits leave
burma ? another union jack in corner flag scuttled

although they've certainly had strife last 70 yrs
might have been better had brits stayed
laan ya mo can give us a summary on fall of raj

[Earnest]

Aha, read Burmese Days by George Orwell, Cali. Read Eric Blair's biography too, us Blitish were about as popular as an Orange march at Drumcree.

[pepesgrill]

i don't dispute there were many instances where

aahh exercising control over the dominion might
have helped . some lost colonies in africa good ex.

[tamada]

When the British Empire surreptitiously rebranded itself as the Commonwealth of Nations, that sorted the men from the boys. The colonies of other European empires all crumbled, some quite horrifically. The colonial boat has already sailed for those that chose to get all empirical in the last hundred years or so.

[tamada]

It appears the Trump endorsement hasn't done Vance any harm in his tilt for the Senate.

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/live-up ... 2#84483695

[GT93]

Roll forward to 2025 and Vance might be in these kinds of pics. I'm guessing there's room for an arse kissing senator or two. I don't know if he'll be supporting Trump ordering the US military to shoot US civilians in the legs: