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.

Yeah but on the upside you do get to pay for the bombs they're dropping on Iranian kids.

He means "the business."

People like Graham treat the US like a corporation, and they are a model employee.

(a la thejuicemedia) Oh sweetie..

Political English is tricky.
The "we" in, "we are going to make lots of money", has absolutely no relation to the "we" in, "we have to make sacrifices".

Other terms that often confuse proletarians: beautiful justice tax cuts freedom security unprecedented elites transparency socialist free speech patriot ...

Traitors to humanity

It's all the American government has ever cared about.

Assault! Homicide! Blood for money, money!

As if there was any pretext before

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.

They have a big focus on nuclear power as well, they have 59 operating nuclear power plants with over 28 under construction. Nuclear is just as important as renewables at this current time in our technological evolution. We need better energy storage technology for pure renewable to work well.

It would also be sick if nuclear fusion becomes a reality and makes all other power generation obsolete, generally.

They rape children and will go to prison for life if they don't keep it up. Nothing should be shocking they will sell their own grandmas to stay free and unaccountable.

Yup. I used to think Lindsay was just a clueless idiot. I mean he is, but think carefully about what he said there . . . the utter contempt it shows for the ordinary people on both sides who will be maimed and killed for his greed. That is just 100% concentrated evil.

If we're going by extremes maybe we can get a socialist president this time round? Actual universal healthcare?

I’m still not down from my hate-high after the last election. America doesn’t need someone else to step in and responsibly commandeer the government. Not yet.

The pain must go on long enough for the lesson to stick.

Conserv卐tives don’t learn until they’re personally affected. Not all of them are as yet affected.

Thompson has said that as much as he hated Nixon, he would vote for him against Bush and Cheney. If he learned that USians elected Trump just one time after the 2015-16 campaign, his head would explode on its own.

There is no textbook definition of psychopath that holds up to scrutiny or can even be verified using modern psychology research.

In an appearance on Fox News, no less.

For the longest time, I only heard about "Kia Stahma" on UK panelshows. The first time I saw his name in print ("Kier Starmer") I was llke - wait - not one, not two, but THREE r's??? WTF! lol

I still feel weird when I head a American broadcaster talk about "Kier Starmer". It just sounds wrong to me. heh.

But yeah, as the other person replying mentioned, it's Al Jazeera, so they heard "tons" and wrote "tonnes". I'd almost not even call that an error, just an accidental choice. Transcription gets rough. You think "How hard is it to transcribe?" but written and spoken language are VERY different, even before you get into regionalization and accents. :)

The source is AlJazeera so even tho Graham likely meant tons, the source took it as metric tonnes.

A simple error.

I think that might be an insult…to the prostitutes.

Who do you think that billion dollars a day goes to?

Again, this is standard wealth transfer to corporate America. All that cash goes into these senator's pockets via the MIC.

Shoddy reporting by Al Jazeera. Graham was clearly speaking American, not English.

Not to mention what good does it do. China is moving to electric vehicles, and solar power. Sure you'll want to use gas powered ships for now, but half of the ships traversing oceans are simply moving fuel around, which won't be needed as the electricity doesn't need to be shipped if it comes from solar. Will large shipments still be needed, of course, but wouldn't it be against the U.S. own interest to have high oil costs for the country shipping them items. As in every item would cost more for American consumers to have it shipped, it would be like putting a tariff on Chinese goods.... Oh... I forgot making the American worker pay more to line the pockets of the oil companies is what they want, got it.

No it’s not. China has been ambracing the future by investing in renewables. It’s not stuck in the past, and it doesn’t give a shit if you are. The oil economy is dead and dying. It will be replaced, and at this rate the US won’t be ready for it. China is laughing.

China has never produced a lot of energy relying on oil in the first place. They did improve a lot adding renewables to the pie, but sadly, they still heavily rely on coal.

Oil is still very useful. Especially when we stop burning it to make cars go forward or to fertilize crops.

A mostly electric future is a safer place

Please stop buying from the fascist regime and its allies, and please stop using the US dollar for international trade

Way cheaper, healthier, funnier, less pollution, no money given to warmongering oligarchies

Sounds good

With wooden wheels?

and yet he keeps getting elected, best rep they can come up with, love him ?

It is a hot economy when everything is on fire…