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Squinch

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4. So I guess this is the "everybody does it" idea. To which I roll my eyes. But I will agree with

Reply to genxlib (Original post)

Sun May 21, 2017, 02:18 PM

May 2017

you that the solution is alternative energy.

Fact remains though: Trump SHOULDN'T sell weapons to the country that gave us 9/11 and Trump SHOULDN'T attend an all male concert because it insults all of his female constituents. And these acts are in a different league than bowing or kissing. You really should acknowledge that at the risk of normalizing his behavior.

I don't give much of a rat's ass about the curtsy.

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All of this talk of Saudi Arabia leads me to one conclusion [View all] genxlib May 2017 OP

Brown people with oil, money and power does make some "others" uncomfortable. Eliot Rosewater May 2017 #1

Yeah the Saudi royal family sure has it rough BannonsLiver May 2017 #6

and brown people without oil, money ane power makes some uncomfortable DrDan May 2017 #10

we've had alternatives for quite a while but the big wigs in Washington make money keeping the luvMIdog May 2017 #2

Basically agree, but it does leave a lot of people dependant on pistachios and dates for Hoyt May 2017 #3

So I guess this is the "everybody does it" idea. To which I roll my eyes. But I will agree with Squinch May 2017 #4

No intent to make them equivalent genxlib May 2017 #5

We don't need their oil elehhhhna May 2017 #7

It's more than just oil. Thanks to our arms exports, SA is now a well armed sand bar. progressoid May 2017 #8

That is true genxlib May 2017 #9