McCain tweets "Are they crazy?" about Exxon waiver request... Gets roasted in replies

[SledDriver]

Are they crazy? @WSJ: "Exxon Seeks U.S. Waiver to Resume #Russia Oil Venture"

Link to tweet

[calguy]

1. No, they're not crazy

They are just well connected now that their man Rexxon is Sec of State, and they know it. Better than bribing officials

[Tatiana]

2. It's pretty EPIC.

I particularly love the repeated mentions that this was essentially predicted if one read page 30 of the dossier.

[LenaBaby61]

3. I particularly love the repeated mentions that this was essentially predicted if one read page 30

of the dossier ....."

Man oh man. That dossier.



I mean, appointing an oil man as Secretary of State--in Tillerman's case--Secretary of Secrecy. There was ALWAYS going to be oil and nothing else involved in anything Tillerman (Working for that OIL) got himself involved in/with concerning this putin-installed occupant and the puppet master putin.

The look of love: putin and the Secretary of Secrecy Tillerman. Actually getting a smile out of the murderous, ex-kgb agent, and soon to be KING of russia.

[Ilsa]

4. Replies are ripping McCain a new one. nt

[Xolodno]

5. Senator McCain, its time you learned the truth.

Your party has long since jumped the shark. You're just an honory member, a figure head of a bygone era, a tool, etc. used to say "no, the GOP is not crazy"....when in actuality, they are. Sir, even Ronold Reagan would be branded as too liberal for the GOP.

[mitty14u2]

6. Payout Time': Exxon Seeks Waiver From U.S. Sanctions to Drill in Russia

The permit application also comes as calls grow for a government shutdown over the ties between Trump advisors and Russian officials. The FBI is currently investigating the Trump campaign's Russia connections.

And beyond the Trump campaign's apparent Russia ties and the implications of Tillerson's potential role in granting his former company the permit, environmentalists also pointed out the devastating climate impacts of further drilling in the Black Sea.

"If the Trump administration allows Exxon to move forward with extreme offshore oil drilling in Russia despite sanctions, the United States Congress must resist," said Greenpeace USA climate liability campaigner Naomi Ages in a statement. "Removing barriers to Exxon drilling in the Russian Black Sea with a state-controlled company like Rosneft would not only jeopardize global progress on climate change and provide momentum for a similar waiver in the Russian Arctic, it would also send a message to Russia that it can intervene in any country, including the United States, with no consequences."

"Members of Congress must stand up for the separation of oil and state," Ages urged.https://www.wsj.com/articles/exxon-seeks-u-s-waiver-to-work-in-russia-despite-sanctions-1492620677 …

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2017/04/19/payout-time-exxon-seeks-waiver-us-sanctions-drill-russia

WTF this should be headlining the news for days instead of Fox News BS. Coup looks to be going a little faster, working well. Trump lines up Corporations for wish list, Pay for play front and center?

[gratuitous]

7. Gosh, Sen. McCain

If only you had some way of finding out about Tillerson's past career when he was nominated to be Secretary of State. Who could have possibly foreseen . . . ?

[NewRedDawn]

8. And that goes for the other

so called "moderate" Puke Ms "I am all in on Trump" Lindsay Graham.