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    TRUMP DELENDUS EST (fka Chatham Harrison)Hamilton Nolan
    2/03/16 10:59am

    America and Saudi Arabia are “friends” like a pothead and his dealer are “friends.” We might be friendly, we might even hang out, but the moment that supply disappears, so do we.

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      NotoriousPUGTRUMP DELENDUS EST (fka Chatham Harrison)
      2/03/16 11:07am

      Or the pothead starts producing his own, then the dealer floods the market to kill pothead’s business. But yeah, the pot head and the dealer are still “allies”

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      amtTRUMP DELENDUS EST (fka Chatham Harrison)
      2/03/16 11:10am

      We also cringe when they make us hang out with them while they get us our stuff from the back. It’s like “dude, can you just give me the oil already and let me go?”

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    ╰(　´◔　ω　◔ `)╯< Woke and BokeHamilton Nolan
    2/03/16 10:58am

    Maybe it was an appropriate critique. Look at this terrible stuff:

    Roses are red,

    violets are blue,

    Mohammed is dead,

    I’m marrying a Jew.

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      burps25╰(　´◔　ω　◔ `)╯< Woke and Boke
      2/03/16 11:02am

      I can’t help but star that, but wow.

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      Icecold Davis╰(　´◔　ω　◔ `)╯< Woke and Boke
      2/03/16 11:06am

      From his collection The Problematic Verses

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    SpringSprungHamilton Nolan
    2/03/16 10:58am

    ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

    Apparently we didn’t care that 15 of the 19 hijackers who knocked down a couple of our buildings were Saudi nationals either.

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      corey3rdSpringSprung
      2/03/16 11:02am

      But in their hearts, they were secretly Iraqis.

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      Johnny ChundersSpringSprung
      2/03/16 11:02am

      Someone has been peepin’ down the Memory Hole.

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    toothpetardHamilton Nolan
    2/03/16 10:59am

    The Saudis need to hear the Good News about our Religion of Peace.

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      Iantoothpetard
      2/03/16 11:01am

      Love thy neighbor...but bring hellfire and brimstone!!

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      Dolemitetoothpetard
      2/03/16 11:06am

      The sad/funny thing is, I’m sure there are a lot of Right Wingers sighing wistfully with a glazed look in their eyes stating, “why can’t WE flog and imprison/behead/flog all of the gays, blasphemers and sinners? It’s just not fair. Separation of church and state, my ass.”

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    ARP2Hamilton Nolan
    2/03/16 11:01am

    As much as I hate fracking, I struggle with whether it’s better to have fracking and reduce the influence of Saudi’s, Putin, etc. Fracking isn’t clean, but, on the whole, it’s cleaner than oil.

    Ideally, we’d develop renewable energy (including nuclear) and choose none of the above. But, something about government not picking winners (if you don’t count subsidies, tax breaks, and wars to control oil sources).

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      benjaminalloverARP2
      2/03/16 11:14am

      Morally, perhaps, but only because we’re poisoning our own land and water instead of putting blinders on as to how energy is procured by dictators. It’s a coin toss, imho.

      But this is, of course, a false choice. Buttressing fossil fuels with green energy and extreme efficiency in building and infrastructure is the economic boost North America needed 20 years ago, 10 years ago, today.

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      1llamarampage will write againARP2
      2/03/16 11:18am

      This is a huge reason why the normalizing of our relationship with Iran is so important - I agree that in a perfect world we’d be throwing everything behind developing renewables, but in the world we live in, being able to diversify our sources of oil without putting our own ecology and population at risk with the untested side-effects of fracking is an important precaution. I think Obama probably had the idea of reaching a kind of equilibrium with both Saudi Arabia and Iran (as in, we’re neither particularly friendly nor particularly unfriendly with either) as a primary reason for pursuing the easing of sanctions now.

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    ReburnsABurningReturnsHamilton Nolan
    2/03/16 11:06am

    The pen has yet to be proven mightier than the sword.

    You think that they would be swinging that whip if some dude hadn’t written a bunch of words 2000 years ago?

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      MisterBurnsReburnsABurningReturns
      2/03/16 11:10am

      Fantastic response. +1

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      Doofenschmirtz, Inc.ReburnsABurningReturns
      2/03/16 11:11am

      yes

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    amtHamilton Nolan
    2/03/16 11:01am

    They’ve also been clamping down on that immoral new game that is the craze with all the kids.

    I’m of course talking about chess.

    http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jan…

    The day that country runs out of oil they’ll be back to being the Alabama of the Middle East, like they were 100 years ago.

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      tzimtzum does not existamt
      2/03/16 11:05am

      It’s truly no mere coincidence that Wahhabism gained traction just as the west was undergoing massive industrialization. I figure it’s like a redneck winning the lottery - you can’t not expect him to build a gigantic toilet in his backyard so he can flush himself down it all day long.

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      cooterbaldwinamt
      2/03/16 11:13am

      I knew Alabama’s new tourism slogan was terrible.

      “Alabama. All the heat and intolerance of the middle east, without the sand.”

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    fudgesicleuighyrHamilton Nolan
    2/03/16 10:58am

    “The bad news is: Saudi Arabia is America’s closest ally in the Middle East!”

    Hello, I am with the Israel lobby and you can never work in media again.

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      benjaminalloverfudgesicleuighyr
      2/03/16 11:05am

      Are you obliterating Yemen with us? No? Sit down.

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    Pink SkullHamilton Nolan
    2/03/16 11:16am

    As a former English major I’m fine with whipping most poets in general.

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      99Telep☺dpr☹blemsHamilton Nolan
      2/03/16 11:01am

      Do you think the Saudi whip master who will administer the blows has Devo on his playlist? He’s got to, right? Just to get pumped for work.

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