Posted on 06/14/2022 8:46:39 AM PDT by grundle
Democrat President Joe Biden has caved and will visit Saudi Arabia and Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to beg the kingdom to pump more oil.
The move comes after the president has shut down domestic output, leading, in part, to soaring gas prices.
As gas prices skyrocket to record highs across the country, Biden may view the trip as a chance to save his presidency.
However, it could still backfire if Biden can’t get the Saudis to dramatically increase production
Biden may have to go with his tail between his legs when he meets Prince Salman as, during his campaign, he famously called Saudi Arabia a “pariah.”
Nevertheless, Biden’s move may be too little too late for most.
“President Joseph R. Biden, Jr. will visit the Middle East region from July 13-16 to reinforce the United States’ iron-clad commitment to Israel’s security and prosperity and attend a Summit of the Gulf Cooperation Council plus Egypt, Iraq, and Jordan (known as the GCC+3),” White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said in a statement.
“He will also meet with counterparts from across the region, to advance U.S. security, economic, and diplomatic interests.”
“While we recalibrate relations, we’re not seeking to rupture relations because Saudi Arabia has been a strategic partner of the United States for eight decades, and we share a host of interests with Saudi Arabia, from containing Iran to counterterrorism to helping protect its territory, where, importantly, 70,000 Americans live and work,” an administration official told Fox News.
“And I just think that’s an important fact.
“I mean, Saudi Arabia has faced hundreds of missiles and UAVs over the last 18 months, many of them targeting areas where Americans live and work.
“And so we have been engaged very deeply and very constructively with the Saudis to help defeat those threats.
“And that’s something, obviously, that is going to continue.”
(Don’t open our pipeline. Beg other countries.)
See? Joe’s working overtime!
C’mon man!!
(The VERY IDEA that he is making that trip at all to go begging for oil after shutting down domestic production should be “backfire” enough.)
Don’t worry. It will all make sense to the sheep 🐑🐑🐑 who watch CNN and MSNBC.
Under cover of going to another “summit” meeting. I’m not convinced they have a confirmed invitation from the Saudis for a direct one to one meeting. Saudis have good reason to give the idiot a cold shoulder.
begging dictators, and especially hostile ones like Saudi, to bail out your own stupid stupid stupid mistakes...
is bound to be costly
suggest you have your boy pay for the oil you blocked our own companies from supplying us directly
Murder is OK when our friends do it!
Saudis have supported modest measured increases on a regular basis, nothing in response to Biden’s tale of woe. They are not stupid either. It should have dawned on these einsteins by now that Saudi Arabia knows the international oil business better than anyone in Washington.
first he called him a murder
THEN, he said he would never meet with him because of same
and now, hat in hand, goes to beg alms... what a miserable wretch
#LGBFJB
The stupidest thing about this entire enterprise is that it is fairly well known, per every source that I have seen, that KSA is already, right now at or very near maximum production capacity. It would not matter what Biden offered or exactly how he supplicates. They cannot produce more at this price or any price. So, assuming Biden & Co have access to the same readily available research numbers that I do, what’s the point? If Biden is asking KSA to unilaterally reduce their pricing in a raging oil market and thus influence other OPEC nations to whack their own prices in response, I think that’s a fools errand. The good news is we’re sending a fool to try to get it done. Oh yeah, and while we’re at it, let’s throw in multiple mentions of the Khashoggi guy the Saudis tortured and killed. Which is grossly regrettable, but hey, why not, that’ll tip the scales in our favor, won’t it?
Why doesn’t he fly to Texas or Alaska and beg them to pump more oil?
Will he bow?
Reminds me of George Bailey going to Potter for a loan. “You once called me a warped, frustrated Pariah”.... I can hear it now. LOL
Amen....... it has taken a year and a half of beating his head against the wall for Biden to understand the new era in the middle east.
I believe Biden doesn't give a damn how much oil
the Saudis pump or don't pump. Really now, what the
Saudis do with their oil or how much of it they produce
is none of Biden's business or the USA's business.
Biden is only going there to see if he can create another
"10% for the Big Guy" deal for himself and his pals.
Biden thinks he can sell his influence as POTUS
to the Saudis to enrich himself.
I know ... it's quite cynical of me say think this.
Senile Sleepy Joe just mindlessly says and does whatever his equally clueless handlers tell him to say and do. That's why the Democrat Party Cabal (including RINOs) stole the election -- so it could gurney senile Sleepy Joe into the White House. Under senile Sleepy Joe, the U.S. has immediately become the laughingstock of the world (North Korea, Russia, and China included). Of course, the U.S. is still the world's military superpower but other than that, the Sleepy Joe-led U.S. is a global laughingstock. Congrats, moron Democrats/RINOs!
I don’t know who is the bigger azzhole, XiJinBiden or PRC Prime Mistake True-dolt. Choosing is difficult. There is so much to dislike and distrust about both!
As a political prisoner in PRC (Politically Repressive Canada), I find it difficult to see XiJinBiden as worse than Justin Castreau (Prime Mistake True-dolt). I am a political prisoner because, as a ‘pureblood’, I am STILL unable to fly on a commercial jet or take a train in the country of birth and citizenship, something that only currently occurs in the ACTUAL PRC, North Korea and Canada! It is likely to change BRIEFLY in Canada because of EXTREME pressure from an almost dead tourist industry and Liberal MPs close to revolt, against the truly revolting Prime Mistake! The announcement that the vaccine mandates for travel will likely be lifted, also came with a notice that if a new variant of the CCP-Coronavirus arises, travel restrictions will be put back.
In addition, PRC (Politically Repressive Canada) ‘occupies’ the Province of Alberta, doing all it can to destroy Western Canada’s economy, particularly Alberta. Now, ground beef and pork will require a warning label concerning the ‘unhealthiness of saturated fats’ contained therein.
Let us not forget bill C-11, and act by which the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) will regulate commercial internet programs as if they were radio and television shows. They might also define even e-mail as ‘internet broadcasting’. Coupled with other censorship acts being brought in, I could be charged with even posting to FR!
The only thing that gives XiJinBiden the ‘lead’ over True-dolt in ‘azzholeness’, is that the US is such an influence on the world, and especially Canada, that, though not as dictatorial (yet) as PRC (Politically Repressive Canada), Amerikka is headed that way under XiJinBiden and gave True-dolt the courage to go full dictator!
God help us all!
He should be impeached for this alone.🤔
Hope they tell him to pound sand.
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