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https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/05/us/politics/trump-family-saudi-golf.html?smid=nytcore-android-share
powwerbottom
Lots of things can happen to old men
hellospacemonkey
In the last 30 days, the Trump Administration has spent $1B of bombs/missiles to take out Yemen's Houthis. Will Saudi Arabia pay us back like JD Vance expects from Ukraine to fight Russia?
DoEpicStuffVIVibes
Soldiers coming home dead and this is what he’s doing
michaelfire
Musk and Trump intend to give themselves and their fellow $billionaires $4 trillion in tax cuts tho. Plutocracy. https://www.newstatesman.com/international-politics/2025utocracy">https://www.n/01/amer">utocracy">https://www.newstatesman.com/international-politics/2025/01/americas-new-plutocracy https://www.latimes.com/ar">ewstates">/01/amer">utocracy">https://www.newstatesman.com/international-politics/2025/01/americas-new-plutocracy https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2002-feb-19-oe-scheer19-story.html https://www.salon.com/2004/03/12/unger_2/ https://www.forbes.com/sites/zacharyfolk/2024/03/21/jared-kushners-2-billion-investment-from-saudi-arabia-what-to-know-after-republicans-delay-subpoena/
RetrogradeLlama
The LIV tour is payback for past help and down payment on future favors.
WhiskyBravo
another reason to hate this stupid saudi backed league
req4adream99
What’s funny is that people think he gives a shit because he reacted during the first shit show. He’s essentially installed himself as president for life - he’s past pretending to care and is only in this for how much he can make. The farmers especially are gonna get screwed cuz the rich want land as that tends to hold value pretty well.
sadurdaynight
Exactly. The pandemic was unexpected, and forced him to try to act presedential. And even that he tried to grift and use against others by withholding ppe if they didn't kiss the ring, having feds hijack state ppe shipments, firing IG's to make it harder to track, and kushner was tracking it all on a shitty excel file with interns making it easy for stuff to go missing. He tried to weaponize the virus against minorities and democrat areas.
camn333
certainlynotaserialkiller
judithCat
Was cake served?
unc0nnected
Just like everything else, even that was a lie
THEcableguy
Fuck the Saudis... I personally feel they're a garbage people/culture. Throw enough slavery and death at a project and it gets built, just like the pyramids! Free human rights, no suffering! = Free human rights? No, Suffering!
vegivamp
Let's not consider the people with the ruling class, though. The house of Saud is a bunch of merciless grifters who managed to build an empire on oil and exploitation - and the way MBS got to power from a non starting position is a masterclass in backstabbing all in itself.
But let's not turn that into racist generalisations, please.
THEcableguy
Oh, but I was specifically calling out their culture. Sorry for being a bit racist, but it's true. I wouldn't touch that place let alone visit it lol its a parody of western extravagance to the highest level. "Oh, let's go ahead and build this super luxurious tower... With no sewage system or any practicality and leave it empty just as a flex." Terrible backwards place.