In light of the Christmas Night "action" in Nigeria, how I feel about TACO and Hogsbreath ...

[marble falls]

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WHERE THE HELL IS CONGRESS???

[sinkingfeeling]

1. Don't know if Congress cares, but am sure you don't get the Nobel Peace Prize by bombing other countries.

[GopherGal]

2. I'm thinking he should be renamed...

Haguesbreath at the rate he's going.

[marble falls]

3. I am so angry. Using this day of all days makes even worse than ever. Hogsbreath gets a thrill out murder. ...

... TACO's wagging the Epstein dog and trying to appeal to "Christians". I believe he failed miserably. He's dog-whistling to extremists in this country and putting US Muslims in danger.

[slightlv]

4. I hate the fact they feel they can do this anytime, despite anything our law may lay out...

and Congress has reneged on its duty regarding war powers for far too many years... but to do it Christmas Day, itself?! Shameful! And using the excuse of "christian slaughter" on Christ's day? I'm sure Christ would have been all for this! /snark

[marble falls]

5. Past angry and approaching inchoate rage. No compromise, no mercy.

[Sneederbunk]

6. Nigeria is Africa's leading oil producer.

[marble falls]

8. Purely coincidental, I'm sure. The truth of it is that the US is drowning in oil as the largest oil exporter ...

... on the planet and has been since fracking started, at least. The oil companies do not want to run oil fields in foreign countries: they just want to refine and sell the by-products. They do not care what the price of crude is, every time it goes up - they get to raise domestic prices and they pass the costs plus a little bump for themselves onto consumers.

The Gulf of Mexico is filled with thousands of capped proven wells and there are proven fields in the US that are also reserved.

This oil obsession is purely TACO's delusion.

[TexasTowelie]

7. K&R because I used to play trumpet

and appreciate the difficulty of the piece.