Saudi Economic Conference
Okay, so the Saudis are holding an economic conference. Just about everybody, and I mean everybody, has withdrawn from the conference.
The Saudi conference, known as “Davos in the desert,” is part of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s plan to transform the oil-dependent economy.
JP Morgan (JPM) CEO Jamie Dimon and the heads of America’s top investment firms — Blackrock (BLK) and Blackstone — are among the leading figures who have decided to stay away. Top executives at Ford (F) and MasterCard (MA) have also pulled out, and Google (GOOGL) said Tuesday that the head of its cloud computing business wouldn’t participate in the event either.
And there’s a much longer list.
But others are going. First name on the short list?
- US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin
Do you wanna know my theory about why he’s going? Because the United States is a sniveling weak little nation with bozos in charge. That’s why.
How serious can we be about human rights if we are scared to withdraw from a silly little conference where somebody is liable to come home in pieces?
Mnunchin and his silly wife will go and kiss butt and remind everybody about the great management job he did at Sears.
And that he’s goofy.
Mnuchin and Sears? That explains a lot.
1Mnuchin and Sears? That explains a lot.
2And he also was on the Board of Sears for 10 years before becoming Treasury Secretary, and today’s headlines show us how that turned out for Sears.
3Withdrawn for now … hypocrites will return, when the wind changes. Like the tough words from Lindsey which can be believed, when he and the rest of the snacilbupeR toss some checks and balances on Dotard45 or purgatory freezes.
4Visions of somebody throwing a human body part in the middle of the conference table, just to see who flinches and who doesn’t.
Granted, most countries have done the dirty on someone at some time, but to murder and dismember a journalist inside his own country’s consulate ought to outrage everybody.
5Damn shame how Sears was slowly driven into the ground by an utterly incompetent management team. I noticed it beginning in the 1970’s, when they began jacking around with the employees, and their pensions (you heard this stuff in a small town w/ a small Sears store).
On the other hand, bonesaw manufacturer’s futures are way up.
(I’d bet that Kashoggi was chopped up and the pieces stuffed down the kitchen sink garbage disposal. If the damned Turks, etc were competent investigators they would have torn the plumbing up; there would be plenty of DNA evidence available. But we’re going to get a whitewash on this, ’cause Donnei owes the Saudis $$$ too.)
6part of demented donnies fears, and saudi’s as well, is if sanctions are put in place and saudi’s try to blackmail world with oil weapon and because of growth of renewables the only effect it would have would be the further juiceing up the deployment of renewables and electric cars.
All of a sudden the saudi’s would be shown to be paper tigers with an obsolete technology and marginal product. So would the purveyors of this product go the way of buggy makers and whale oil marketeers.
7I’ve got a file of memes that rotate in my wallpaper file. And there’s one of this guy and his wife holding that sheet of dollar bills.
It’s captioned:
8“People say I act like I don’t care.
It’s not an act.”
Mr. and Mrs. Mnuchen? How much would the Saudis want to keep them?
9K, ***if only*** measures had been taken in the 70s, we wouldn’t be having ballot questions to merely “think” about doing what has always been right and should already be accomplished, by 2050 when it could be too late.
10I beg to differ:
” Because the United States is a sniveling weak little nation with bozos in charge.”
Rather:
11With bozos (trying to take foreign money) in charge, the United States becomes a sniveling weak little nation…
@Jane & PKM
12You are right and once again Jimmy Carter has been proven right.
But you may be underestimating the level of penetration that renewables, hybrid and electric cars have made into the energy mix.
Or so I hope.
K, President Jimmy Carter was the harbinger of a future filled with elections stolen by the snacilbupeR. Relatives of the “Iranian hostages” should scream for the next FIVE generation as to the calumny and treason committed by the Rayguns campaign. Too bad it will require real history and massive education to fully appreciate Presidents Carter and Obama; both deserve it now as does the country, especially our kids. Would be nice to move forward with an informed electorate.
NV is pleased to have a TESLA plant and encouraging signs of developing solar power. Renewables are two of the questions on our 2018 ballot. But, sadly, I don’t think I’m underestimating the current status of renewables. It’s a long over due beginning, which should have been completed before now if not for the science deniers and knuckle draggers who vote ‘Con. On the optimistic side what is being talked about for 2050 can and should be done by 2030. Push the Koch brothers and those fracking us to death into early metaphoric graves, so this will be done. Faster.
13Carter never got the cooperation he needed nor the credit he deserves.
14Part of the reason is the perenial problem of thuglicrats torpedoing D agenda.
In 2014 the d’s were tripping over themselves to run away from Obama and they were losers.
So it was during Carter admin. when D elected just wanted to continue business as usual with its pro business, coddle the rich with a few crumbs thrown in for their true constituents policies.
When Carter tried to move the country forward they looked to their contributors and threw it into reverse. Chuckie schumer, rahm and cuellar are classic examples of these sort of bogus and false electeds who care more about keeping thuglicans happy rather then serving their constituents.
RAT45 Donnei T, and his family and T Org company, owes more money and favors to the House of Sawed than any other nation or group excepting Russia.
15Remember that his very first foreign trip, a significant presidential event, went straight to the waiting arms of the House of Sawed. His fawning obsequious behavior there (The Orb, etc) was a premonition of his mewling supplicant posture and connections with Poisonous Putin.
RAT45 really, really wishes that he had the same kind of powers that these state criminals wield. Donnei would dearly love to be able to (or have his minions) bonesaw and flush down a kitchen disposal most of his critics and opposition.
Let’s get rid of these treasonous criminals in the upcoming elections.
It could very well be y’all, gentle Salonites, getting bonesawed to bits in a few years.
You think that RAT45’s rabid Trumpets would stop short at doing things like that? Bullshit, they’d happily do whatever their masters hinted or told them to do. Up to and including gleefully dismembering libruls and Dems, etc., and feeding hogs and making fertilizer from y’all.
RE: “Mnunchin’s silly wife”
I’m really way OK with LuLu. Unlike the majority of those in the current president’s administration, she doesn’t try hide her true self.
Vacuous? Check.
16Trophy wife? Check.
High maintenance? Check.
Floozy? Check.
Self-absorbed? Check.