I paid $75 dollars for gas in GA today for 16 gallons. This makes no sense when the U.S. produces a huge amount gas, the stock market is driving it up because they can. Good thing I don’t drive far daily. And the leader says it will get much higher. The fucking world money leaders always drive up costs even if it doesn’t happen in the U.S.
I remember paying $45 to fill up the tank a couple of years ago.
>>24631201. I agree
>>24631206. Why to fuck is she giving him sympathy and an excuse
>>24631289 guaranteed NATO made that up, the EU and NATO are bound and determined to have war with Russia because their goal was always to steal Russia’s territory. Russia has done nothing to them, they had to make this up because the EU countries are broke and can only make money through war, hence with the Ukraine war was used to killed 100’s and 1000’s of Ukrainians and Russians. They will never stop this war, it’s never to protect their people. Oh and all the leaders were blackmailer early and had to join Z. The truth is all of them she be charged for serious crimes on Europe, Russia and elsewhere
>>24631293. KEK but not KEK
>>24631330. Where is her work BTW Putin and Russia were glad it came out and wrote an article like “remember we told you there were biolabs years ago”! The world and Europe will never apologize because they knew about them, plus they were doing test and vaccines to destroy the Slavic genes and other Europeans
It was reported there were at least 59 CIA labs in Ukraine with all their doctors and researchers. I doubt all of them have been found. They barely could find all their locations and labs
>>24631331. I’m fucking tired of their blaming rye world of being antisemitic when they are anti free people. I never even think about them but the more they push the more real antisemites grow. Hey Jews you betrayed Abraham so you lost the protected race. Too bad you are just like every other race on here. Plus God and Abraham were tired of your complaining and so are most here
>>24631360. Whatever happened to him, it didn’t get rid of his hideous psycho laugh. That has always bothered me
>>24631377. Trump said it was funded by his friends and rich donors and himself, besides the security parts are are protection for the president, family etc
>>24631416. Massie seemed to get mean and angry when he married that leftists after his wife died and got over it quickly
>>24631426 who looked like he’s been taken over by the death cult
Israel saved missiles while US burned through its stocks during Iran war – WaPo
American forces reportedly engaged twice as many Iranian missiles as the IDF
Published 21 May, 2026 23:47
Israel conserved its air defense interceptors during the war on Iran, while the US expended significant portions of its own high-tech stockpiles, the Washington Post reported on Thursday, citing anonymous US officials.
American forces used more than 200 THAAD interceptors, around half of the total US stockpile, and over 100 SM-3 and SM-6 missiles, three officials told the outlet. Israel, by contrast, allegedly used only 100 Arrow interceptors and 90 David’s Sling interceptors, some of them against less advanced missiles fired from Yemen and Lebanon.
“The United States absorbed most of the missile defense mission while Israel conserved its own magazines,” the newspaper quoted Kelly Grieco, a senior fellow at the Stimson Center think tank, as saying.The figures suggest a “lopsided dynamic,” WaPo wrote, although the Pentagon and the Israeli government both defended the balance of resources used.
The Pentagon has claimed less than $30 billion in direct spending, but skeptics say the cost of replacing spent munitions and lost assets, as well as the long-term impact on the American economy, could exceed $1 trillion.
While Washington’s interceptor stockpiles have dwindled and new production cannot keep pace with demand, Tehran allegedly preserved much of its offensive capability. Iran has retained around 70% of its mobile launchers and missile stockpile, and regained access to 90% of underground military facilities damaged by US-Israeli bombings, according to earlier US media reports.
Despite President Donald Trump’s repeated threats to resume attacks unless Tehran accepts his peace terms, many observers have suggested that repeated extensions of the fragile April ceasefire show he is seeking an off-ramp from the increasingly costly and unpopular conflict. Israel, meanwhile, is reportedly pushing Washington to finish the job while Tehran is weak.
Tehran has confirmed that it is reviewing Washington’s updated proposals, but President Masoud Pezeshkian warned that “forcing Iran to surrender through coercion is nothing but an illusion.” Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei said talks can succeed if the US ends its “piracy” against Iranian ships and agrees to release frozen funds, while Israel must end its war in Lebanon.
(The next time Bibi comes to Trump and says I have a great idea, all Trumps military should carry Bibi out the door and say don’t come back unless you want peace!)
https://www.rt.com/news/640355-israel-us-interceptors-iran/
Starmer’s party is dying, and hallucinating mad political gambits in its death throes
After a brutal electoral collapse, Labour is tearing itself apart – reviving old wars and betting its future on a desperate leadership stunt.1/3‘
(Sorry for all the red type, but this was Hilariously English Commentary and it’s was damn good!)
Published 21 May, 2026 14:16
By Graham Hryce,
The existential crisis that recently engulfed the British Labour Party has intensified over the past week, andit is now clear that the party is facing political extinction.
Two weeks ago,British voters showed their contempt for Labour, after enduring two years of scandal-ridden and ineffective government. The partylost almost 1,600 local council seats;ceded control of the Welsh parliament for the first time ever; andperformed very poorly in Scotland.
TheLabourParty has responded to thisunprecedented electoral drubbing by engaging in an unseemly orgy of political infightingthat will continue for months to come.
Within days,some 90 MPs announced that they no longer had faith in Keir Starmeras prime minister – and five cabinet members resigned, including Wes Streeting, the health secretary, who had been maneuvering to depose the unpopular Starmer for some time.
Streeting, however, declined to challenge Starmer for the leadership because he could not muster the support of the necessary 81 MPs to do so.
A week later,Streeting delivered an extraordinary speech in which he announced that he would contest the leadership when Starmer was eventually challenged, describedStarmer’s ascension to Labour leadership as “dishonest” and astonishingly urged Britain to re-join the European Union– thereby reviving the divisive Brexit issue that has poisoned British politics for over a decade, and had previously split the Labour Party.
Streeting, by injecting Brexit into the Labour leadership contest, has ensured that it will become much more divisive and bitter that it otherwise would have been.One Labour minister has already condemned Streeting for “re-opening the Brexit wars.”
Other potential challengers – Angela Rayner and Ed Miliband – have also declined to challenge Starmer at this stage, andthe unpopular Starmer appears determined to remain prime minister for the present.
This strange political impasse then provoked the ambitious mayor of Manchester,Andy Burnham, to launch a prospective challenge against Starmer. Burnham, however, cannot challenge at present as he is not in parliament – because earlier this year Starmer refused to endorse him as a candidate in a by-election in a safe Labour seat, that was subsequently won by the Greens.
Then, last week a young MP in the Manchester seat of Makerfield,Josh Symons, resigned from parliament so that Burnham could contest the resulting by-election(due to be held on June 18), win a seat in the Commons, and then challenge Starmer for the prime ministership. After defeating Starmer, Burnham would then have three years to win back those millions of voters that have recently deserted Labour, and lead Labour to victory in the 2029 general election.
This is the Machiavellian plan concocted by the apparatchiks that currently control the Labour Party – and Streeting, Rayner, and Miliband have, for the time being, acquiesced in it,no doubt expecting to be suitably rewarded with cabinet appointments if and when Burnham becomes prime minister.
There are, however, numerous, insuperable difficulties confronting this high-risk strategy.
Burnham is by no means certain to win the by-election that has been gifted him. He is currently a very popular mayor of Manchester,but at the recent council elections Reform won every ward in the Makerfield electorate– and voters may well take a dim view of their local member being edged out so as to allow Burnham to make a bid for the prime ministership.
In 1965, Prime Minister Harold Wilson engineered a similar piece of by-election spivery when Patrick Gordon Walker, who was slated to become foreign secretary, surprisingly lost his seat at the general election that brought Wilson to power a year before. Wilson subsequently arranged by-election in a safe Labour seat – in which voters refused to elect Walker.
Makerfield is a whiteworking-class electorate that voted overwhelmingly in favor of leaving the EU at the Brexit referendum in 2015 and is staunchly anti-immigrant. Josh Symons won the seat at last year’s election with a majority of 5,300 votes over the Reform party candidate.
https://www.rt.com/news/640332-starmer-party-mad-gambit/
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Reform leader Nigel Farage has promised to “throw the kitchen sink” at Makerfield, and the partywill campaign on the key issues of Brexit (thanks to Streeting) and immigration. Burnham – who is previously on record as wanting to reverse Brexit, and has this week been.branded “open borders Burnham” by Farage– is vulnerable on both of these issues. (==The English are very funny with the insulting nicknames)
Nor should it be forgottenthat when Burnham was a MP. (he was the member for Leigh between 2001 and 2017)he was twice decisively defeated in leadership ballots– once by Ed Miliband and once by Jeremy Corbyn.
Even if Burnham wins in Makerfield he may not win the leadership contest – Streeting and perhaps others will be candidates – that will ultimately be decided by Labour Party members, rather than the elected Labour MPs or the party’s ruling cadre.
More importantly, even if Burnham wins the by-election and becomes prime minister,does anyone believe that voters will not punish Labour for the lengthy, divisive and self-indulgent leadership contestnow in train that resulted in him becoming prime minister?
The absurdity inherent in the plan to make Burnham prime ministerwas highlighted this week when David Lammy, the deputy prime minister, announced that both he and Starmer would campaign for Burnham in Makerfield.
The plan to install Burnham as prime minister also seriously underestimates the rage and contempt that British voters have for politicians in general, and Labour politicians in particular – and voters are more than capable of derailing it.
The unsavory political infightingthat Labour has engaged in over the past few weeks, which can only intensify over the next few months, has,in my view, already condemned the party to political oblivion– in much the same way that the tawdry and protracted leadership contest that resulted in Liz Truss becoming prime minister signaled thedemise of the Conservatives as a viable mainstream party.
More to the point,does anyone really believe that Labour is capable of formulating and implementing a political programthat would carry it to an election win in 2029?
If Streeting’s foolish suggestion that Brexit be reversed – surely a political gift to the Reform Partythat not even Farage could have anticipated in his wildest dreams – is indicative of Labour’s new policy direction, then the party is beyond saving.
Nor do Burnham’s recent policy pronouncements – “I will fight for justice and ordinary people”; “we need to reverse deindustrialization”; and “we need more public ownership” amount to a credible political program that the divided Labour Party can coalesce around,let alone expect to win an election with.
Burnham’s economic views mirror those of Jeremy Corbyn – andCorbyn’s economic agenda was decisively rejected by the electorate at the 2019 general election, won in a landslide by Boris Johnson, and again in 2024 when Starmer won a large majority.on an explicitly anti-Corbynite program.
By what miraculous process is Burnham going to persuade the electorate to vote for a big spendingeconomic agenda that it has resolutely rejected at the last two general elections?
And how, one might ask, does Burnham propose to convince the more than 250 MPswho are still committed to Starmer’s cautious technocratic agenda to embrace a program based upon reindustrialization, nationalization, and increased government spending? Even if Burnham were to win Makerfield by a large margin, this would not have given him a mandate to implement a radical political program of this kind.
But Burnham’s difficulties do not end there.
Burnham’s crude working class persona may play well with voters in Greater Manchester –but he does not have the same appeal to the disenchanted British electorate at large, or, indeed, to many displaced workers in the north. (Burnham’s own constituency) who have been voting for Reform in ever increasing numbers in recent years.
Burnham may be “the King of the North” but he is an unimpressive political messiah – even though his career may well end in his electoral crucifixion – and Labour’s desperate plan to install him as prime minister is, in my view, a gross political miscalculation based upon wishful thinking.
https://www.rt.com/news/640332-starmer-party-mad-gambit/
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The chaos that has engulfed Labour in the past few weeks was by no means inevitable.
Starmer could have resigned with a modicum of dignity, and a new leader could have been appointed without the need for a protracted and divisive election process. The party could have drafted a genuinely reformist political program, implemented it – with its massive majority in the Commons – over the next three years, and had at least some chance of being re-elected in 2029.
The current Labour Party leadership was, however, incapable doing any of these things– in large part because Starmer and those.ambitious politicians who are now seeking to depose him are completely lacking in political judgment, and the party itself is utterly bereft of credible ideas and basic political proficiency.
In this regard,Labour has come to resemble the moribund Conservative Party, and, in my view, is doomed to suffer a similar fate.
In a recent interview,political commentator Peter Hitchens described the Conservative and Labour Parties as “corpse parties” – an apt description of the two ailing major mainstream political parties that once dominated British politics.
With the Labour Party’s imminent demise – which will be pathetically played out over the next few months – that era is now coming to a chaotic and ignominious end.
(But the City in London will suppport another deep stater with skeletons in their closet.)
https://www.rt.com/news/640332-starmer-party-mad-gambit/
can we finish this thread and produce another thread now?
>>24632117. Thank you sir