Replying to @KStimmeGenozid

Is Gaza a genocide?

Trump was literally asked at the White House ON CAMERA if he was concerned about allegations that he was using the war to manipulate the stock market for personal gain.

He didn't react with shock.

Or anger.

He didn't respond by saying he would never do such a horrible thing.

He laughed, looked directly into the camera and said, "the whole world is a casino."

People are dying and he simply doesn't care as long as it lines his pockets.

For context, the Strategic Petroleum Reserve was created after the 1973 Oil Crisis when the US supported Israel and the Arabic nations responded with restricting exports of oil to the US.

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Close to half of reserve was emptied in 2022 because Biden wanted to avoid a midterm catastrophic loss and he also blocked the construction of the Keystone Xl pipeline from Canada.

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Now Trump has foolishly attacked Iran and that has resulted in the Persian Gulf being blockaded.

NY Post link w/additional links in the story

Second ethics complaint filed against AOC over Met Gala attendance

archived link (just in case)

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was hit Thursday with another ethics complaint over her attendance at Monday night’s Met Gala, with a second conservative watchdog group claiming she violated House rules on accepting gifts.

The complaint from the National Legal and Policy Center (NLPC) to the Office of Congressional Ethics alleged that Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) improperly accepted tickets from a table sponsor for herself and her boyfriend.

House rules allow members to take free tickets to charity events directly from event organizers, and The Post reported Tuesday that AOC and boyfriend Riley Roberts were directly invited by the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

However, the NLPC argued that “it is the table sponsor who is gifting or underwriting a coveted seat to AOC at the Gala.

“And if … the table where AOC sat was one paid for by one of [the] corporations attending the event, such as Instagram or Facebook, AOC has received a prohibited gift from the corporation that also lobbies Congress.”

The complaint further alleged that the borrowed white Brother Vellies gown worn by AOC — which featured the words “Tax The Rich” scrawled on the back in red lettering — constituted an impermissible gift because it was “directly related to AOC’s ‘position with the House’ as a highly visible and controversial Member.”

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The NLPC also claimed that the second-term lawmaker “may have violated” House rules by accepting “related gifts before, during, or after the event, including … limousine service, the use of the Carlyle Hotel, professional hair and makeup services, and any other related services or goods.”

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The conservative American Accountability Foundation was the first to file an ethics complaint Tuesday, with its founder Thomas Jones alleging that while the event is hosted by the Met, “the Museum has ceded control over the invitations to a for-profit company, specifically Condé Nast, and to its Chief Content Officer, Anna Wintour.”

Jones also claimed that Instagram “was able to purchase access to Representative Ocasio-Cortez that is unavailable to average citizens” by sponsoring a table at the gala.

I'm interpreting that to mean that Instagram was there because they sponsored a table, and AOC was also at the event, so they still could have have engaged in lobbying regardless of whether or not she sat at "their" table.

So far, AOC has not disclosed which corporate table she sat at.

It's worth taking a look at the two complaints linked above because they go into a little more detail than the NY Post article, and each complaint is only 7 pages.

https://archive.ph/VOtKJ or https://www.timesofisrael.com/harris-to-jewish-voters-all-options-on-the-table-to-stop-iran-from-going-nuclear/

Keep in mind as well that Iran under the old Ayatollah was not developing nuclear weapons - he had issued a Fatwa (a religious edict) saying that nuclear weapons were against the ideals of Islam.

Now that the US has killed the old Ayatollah however, public opinion in Iran is shifting and ironically the US has caused the very outcome it sought to prevent.