The Main Driver of Inflation is a Murderous Maniac in Riyadh

Saudi Arabia is withholding oil production because Biden won’t meet with Mohammed bin Salman after the murder of Jamal Khashoggi, the president suggested.

SAUDI CROWN PRINCE Mohammed bin Salman is enacting revenge on Democrats in general and President Joe Biden specifically for the party’s increasingly standoffish attitude toward the kingdom — by driving up energy prices and fueling global inflation.

Biden himself seemed to allude to this at a town hall event with CNN last month, during which he attributed high gas prices to a certain “foreign policy initiative” of his, adding, “There’s a lot of Middle Eastern folks who want to talk to me. I’m not sure I’m going to talk to them.”

Biden was making a not-so-veiled reference to his refusal to meet with Salman and acknowledge him as Saudi Arabia’s de facto ruler due to his role in the grisly murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi in October of 2018. The move came after Biden vowed during a debate with President Donald Trump to make MBS, as he’s known, “a pariah” and represented a stark departure from Trump’s warm relations with the desert kingdom and the crown prince.

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In June 2018, heading into the midterms, Trump requested that Saudi Arabia and its cartel, the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries, lower energy prices by increasing output, and the kingdom complied. Prices bottomed out in 2020 amid the coronavirus pandemic, and usage sank to record lows. Prices surged once the pandemic waned and the economy reopened, and Biden in August 2021 requested that OPEC again increase output.

This time MBS refused, angry at having yet to be granted an audience with Biden and contemptuous of the U.S. pullback from the war in Yemen. As one of his first pieces of business, Biden had ordered the end of American support for Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates’s war, though caveated it by barring only the backing of “offensive operations.” Saudi Arabia nevertheless received it as a grievous blow.

Ali Shihabi, a Saudi national who is considered a voice for MBS in Washington, made that clear in October, tweeting, “Biden has the phone number of who he will have to call if he wants any favours.”

https://theintercept.com/2021/11/11/inflation-saudi-arabia-biden-mbs-oil/

Does Rittenhouse's "crying" on the stand violate Josh Hawley's Masculinity test?

Rittenhouse judge's ringtone

Elie Mystal: I Hope Everyone Is Prepared for Kyle Rittenhouse to Go Free

Did Rittenhouse's face actually get wet when he cried? Because I didn't see any tears.

Anyone else notice that?

Wolf Blitzer spreading lies about gas prices

Dennis Prager thinks anti-vaxxers treated worse than AIDS patients back in the 1980s

The incessant "We're going to lose" "if the election were held today" threads are trolling...

plain and simple.

It's like this site has been taken over by Project Veritas.

Disturbing: 2 arrested in Eugene cookie shop assault over masks

A duo with a history of harassing business owners, Ricki Collin, 34, and Amy Hall, 45, walked into a Eugene, Oregon bakery with the sole purpose of picking a fight over masks. They aggressively argue with the shop owner, who insists they need to cover up, as per local law, before entering. As tempers flare, shop owner eventually grabs a bat and tells them to back off — which they don't. But they do grab the bat from the owner.

The angry gentleman is recording the altercation for his YouTube channel while Hall begins to physically attack the shop owner.

The couple, flagged down police and showed them their video, thinking they were in the right. But he and his partner are arrested for "third-degree assault," and the man got an extra charge of "third-degree robbery for reportedly walking away with the bat," according to KEZI.com.

video of the incident:

The far right's secret weapon

this article relates to a NY Times story about a "Hilary/Biden voter" that was voting for Youngkin that turned out to by a right wing activist. The reporter has yet to issue a correction...

https://twitter.com/jwpetersNYT/status/1454998091459928067

https://twitter.com/nycsouthpaw/status/1455028582158323712

Here, he doubles down:

https://twitter.com/jwpetersNYT/status/1455127281442201600

The far right's secret weapon

Have some extreme reactionism you need to sell? Call the politics desk of the New York Times.

Liberals woke up to some bad news yesterday: The governor’s race in Virginia, a state Biden won by double digits, went to a previously unknown Republican. More worryingly, Glenn Youngkin seems to have won on the strength of his opposition to educating Virginia’s schoolchildren about America’s ongoing history of racism—a hot topic in a state still grappling with its legacy as the old Confederate capital and the white-supremacist riot that rocked Charlottesville four years ago.

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The New York Times explained it like this: