Exxon Mobil and Chevron, the biggest oil companies in the U.S., recorded record-breaking profits and revenue from this past business quarter and have already ramped up their already egregious stock buyback program to further enrich shareholders and executives. Including Europe’s top oil companies Shell and TotalEnergies, the four corporations combined to return over $23 billion to shareholders through stock buybacks just this past quarter alone. John Iadarola, Ramesh Srinivasan, and Jessica Burbank discuss on The Young Turks.
“The two largest U.S. oil companies, Exxon Mobil Corp (XOM.N) and Chevron Corp (CVX.N), posted record revenue on Friday, bolstered by surging crude oil and natural gas prices and following similar results for European majors a day earlier.
The U.S. pair, along with UK-based Shell (SHEL.L) and France’s TotalEnergies (TTEF.PA), combined to earn nearly $51 billion in the most recent quarter, almost double what the group brought in for the year-ago period.”
Can we say price gouging? Look while the people complain how hard it is to make it today, the republicans blame Biden to make political points while supporting the very companies that are jacking up the prices for profit. Profit over people. Understand, most of the inflation that is hurting people is due to companies trying to make as much profit as possible to make up for their lost profits in 2020. Ron and I just got hit with a nearly 90 dollar extra charge on our electric bill because of their need to use “alternative fuel energy”. Which means they had to pay more to do the job we pay them for, but they must never lose any profit so we must make up for their loss. That is the system in the US unrestrained capitalism, the companies must make the maximum profit and never lose money so the people must pay until they are left with nothing. This doesn’t happen in other countries people! In other countries the people are protected. But in the US we have unrestrained capitalism which means all the money of the country must be funneled to the top and the people must be kept desperate and struggling. Hugs
Exxon reported income of $17.9 billion for the three months through June, more than three times what it earned a year ago. Revenue at the energy giant jumped to $115.6 billion, from $67.7 billion a year ago.
Chevron’s performance was similar, with profit more than tripling to $11.6 billion as sales rose to $65 billion, compared with $36 billion a year ago.
Coming after oil prices nearly doubled from a year ago, the bumper results were expected, but Exxon and Chevron still beat analysts’ predictions for profits in the quarter.
Exxon Mobil and Chevron, the two largest U.S. energy companies, reported record quarterly profits following the spike in oil and gas prices caused mainly by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. https://t.co/3NoTvu8mfj
Which is why Im really PISSED that this admin isnt at least making a show of hauling these CEO’s and board members in front of Congress. There is a lot to be gained by even the theater of getting these people on tv trying to explain how gas is $7.00 but they’re doubling their profits at the same time.
The meat industry, Oil/Gas and Pharma should all be lined up in front of Congress and made to explain the high costs.
That and to explain why they are pricing diesel more than a dollar over regular gasoline. That is bullshit, but making that expensive makes everything expensive because we ship by truck. Groceries, housewares, everything.
We have not been experiencing inflation. We’ve been suffering under unregulated corporate greed.
I am going to highlight a few passages, but the main point to be made is that according to these people the US is already a Christian theocracy where the rules of the bible they want followed are to be what the laws of the nation are based one. Also notice the slur and accusation that the gays target children is baked into their narritive. Scary. Hugs
COLUMBUS, OH — APRIL 23: J.D. Vance, candidate for the U.S. Senate speaks at the Save America Rally featuring the former President Donald J. Trump, April 23, 2022, at the Delaware County Fairgrounds, Delaware, Ohio. (Photo by Graham Stokes for the Ohio Capital Journal.)
Republican Ohio U.S. Senate nominee J.D. Vance would oppose legislation to codify the right to marriage for same-sex couples, according to Mission: America, a Columbus based non-profit which bills itself as a ministry.
In a joint statement with Ohio Value Voters, Mission: America president Linda Harvey criticized the Ohio Republican congressmen who voted to pass the Respect for Marriage Act in the House.
“Homosexual couples embrace an ancient sin often involving high risk practices,” Harvey wrote. “These couples are never blessed with their own children, just one of the many limitations of such relationships. But homosexuals in America are often quite willing to corrupt other people’s children.”
Harvey went on to insist it’s actually the LGBTQ movement that is “intolerant,” and that they are responsible for everything from porn to “unnatural identities.” Separately, Harvey is concerned about witchcraft invading the church.
In his response to Mission: America, Vance explained he’d vote no on the Respect for Marriage Act if he were in office. According to their press release, he went on to state “the religious liberty piece of this is very bad.” No language in the bill directly implicates religion, and Vance’s campaign didn’t provide additional comment to explain his statement.
The measure, HR 8404, passed the House last week with broad bipartisan support. In all, 47 Republicans backed the proposal, including Ohio Republican Reps. Mike Carey, Dave Joyce, Mike Turner and Anthony Gonzalez.
Vance’s opposition to the bill marks the second time in a little over a month that the Republican nominee has taken a stance against notable, bipartisan legislative efforts. In June, he told a Breitbart radio show he would not support the gun control package negotiated by Sen. Chris Murphy, D-CT, and John Cornyn, R-TX.
At the time, Vance highlighted misgivings about so-called red flag laws, which allow courts to temporarily seize firearms after determining someone is a danger to themselves or others. Vance dismissed the provisions, calling them a “slippery slope.”
Murphy and Cornyn’s legislation, which was signed into law by President Biden late last month, does not impose a national red flag law. Instead, it sets aside federal funding to assist with administration if states choose to impose red flag laws of their own.
Ohio’s outgoing U.S. Senator Rob Portman, who Vance is running to replace, was one of the ten Republican senators to initially sign on to that gun control framework, signaling the legislation had a real shot at passage. He’s also one of two Republican co-sponsors of the Senate version of the Respect for Marriage Act.
Because of the Senate’s filibuster rules, Portman and other supporters will again need 10 Republicans to back the bill to bring it to a vote. In a press call this week Portman invoked Republican support in the House and emphasized the measure only codifies the “status quo.” Still, he stuck to cautious optimism.
“More than a million Americans in same-sex marriages and their families rely on that. It makes it clear that as a matter of federal law, just as is the status quo, that same-sex marriages will be given recognition across the United States,” Portman said.
“My hope is that the Senate will take it up and pass it, and send it to the president,” he said. “I don’t know the timing of that.”
As longtime JMG readers will recall, Linda Harvey has appeared here many times over the years, most recently when she declared that the rainbow flag is a “flagrant violation of God’s trademark.”
Harvey has called televised same-sex kisses “depraved airborne infections.” In 2018, she bizarrely declared oral sex to be “the practice of homosexuals.”
In 2017, Harvey called for prosecuting LGBTQ activists for “normalizing homosexuality.”
Republican Ohio U.S. Senate nominee J.D. Vance would oppose legislation to codify the right to marriage for same-sex couples, according to a questionnaire he filled out from a right-wing religious nonprofit group that shared his answer in a release.https://t.co/fFKKC9Kadg
— Ohio Capital Journal (@OhioCapJournal) July 28, 2022
Linda Harvey (resident of a Columbus suburb) tried to have a rally in her suburb to gain traction for the anti-T “bathroom bill.” Under a dozen people showed up. So she moved the next rally to a more small town/rural/exurban big box store and just over a dozen showed up. She stopped having rallies.
This is not a big “get” for Vance. It will not add one vote he doesn’t already have, may lose him some.
“But homosexuals in America are often quite willing to corrupt other people’s children.”
Seriously, focus on all the pedo priests your religion is turning a blind eye to as they instead point to the gays, who, by the way will still be gay if you prevent them from getting married. No logic.
They coming hard with the queers are pedophiles stick. I wish our leaders would start coming back at em with info about all the people who are really getting arrested everyday for child rape
I wish actual christians would go after the christians that are molesting children. But we hear nothing from them. That’s because they really don’t care how filthy and empty their faith is.
To be fair, Republicans have long been slow in accepting progress or the sea change in American views regarding homosexuality. It’s all that FOX News, coupled with their embrace of the extremist Evangelical cult, and hate groups that blinds them to the general cultural trends.
A number of the more “sane” Republicans know that overturning Roe has fucked them over in the polls by at least 10 points, and their more rabid & puritanical political colleagues among them are not helping by trying to craft more misogynistic punitive laws.
SOOOO they trot out the old Rovian/Bush solution of using gay rights as their piñata. Except, those old tactics of 2000-2004 won’t work anymore, when the majority of Americans seem to be fine with the LGBTQ being LGBTQ among them, as well as seeing them married.
To be fair, Republicans have long been slow in accepting progress or the sea change in American views regarding homosexuality. It’s all that FOX News, coupled with their embrace of the extremist Evangelical cult, and hate groups that blinds them to the general cultural trends.
A number of the more “sane” Republicans know that overturning Roe has fucked them over in the polls by at least 10 points, and their more rabid & puritanical political colleagues among them are not helping by trying to craft more misogynistic punitive laws.
SOOOO they trot out the old Rovian/Bush solution of using gay rights as their piñata. Except, those old tactics of 2000-2004 won’t work anymore, when the majority of Americans seem to be fine with the LGBTQ being LGBTQ among them, as well as seeing them married.
That’s something mainstream Democrats don’t understand, yet. Providing a solid legislative effort—especially if the effort is “behind the scenes” in any way—does NOT cement a political narrative among the majority of voters. Those voters use cemented narratives to guide their votes.
Coming up with “groomer” talking points, getting all your people into lockstep using those phrases, saturating social media with them, getting all your pundits to bang the drum, AND introducing bill after bill in state after state—with significant coverage in the media—cements a narrative.
It’s mind boggling to me the extent to which conservatives have gotten this lockstep “groomer” approach instilled in intelligent people who clearly know better, people such as Andrew Sullivan and J D Vance.
The Democrats have nothing resembling the conservative “roll out” of their marketing/propaganda.
“High-risk practices”. You meant the same things that straight couples do, at a much higher rate (due to the overwhelming number of straghts).
No one says “we need to ban straight marriage because some straight people have oral and anal sex.”
And somehow childless couples are worthless? There are a lot of straight couples who can’t have or don’t want children, and yet they are free to marry.
What the hell is he talking about. Push it to the next step? Push what? The sexual revolution? Is he still on that old trope from the 1960s. Really? Take where it has never been before. The Respect for Marriage act protects marriage equality for same sex and interracial couples. What is taking it to where it has never been to protect marriages that have been the law for some time? They cannot directly attack marriage equality without sounding like a bigot and a racist, so they try to sell fear. Be afraid, they are going to crush you if you don’t love the gay marriage. He acts as if everyone will be forced to have at least one same sex marriage in the family even if no one is gay. I am so tired of these assholes misrepresenting, misdirecting, and misinforming their followers. His whole thing was designed to give him a segment on Fox and to be repeated in right wing hate media. A part of the public is going to lose their legal rights to marry the person they love and have the legal benefits of that recognized marriage just so republican right wing bigot racists can beat their chest they made their god happy. Because clearly their god hates the same people they do and is powerless to stop crying unless the humans who follow him get to be cruel to others. Hugs
From the Family Research Council:
During today’s episode of “Washington Watch with Tony Perkins,” Senator James Lankford (R-Okla.) announced for the first time that he will vote against H.R. 8404, marketed as the “Respect for Marriage” Act, if it comes to the Senate floor.
“The far-Left is trying to say we want to be able to push this to the next step” of the sexual revolution and “take it where it has not ever gone before,” said Lankford. “And we are going to absolutely oppose that.”
Overzealous federal bureaucrats, left-wing legal groups, and LGBTQ pressure groups are no longer saying, “We demand recognition” of same-sex marriage, said Lankford; they’re now saying, “We’re going to crush anyone that opposes our belief in gay marriage.”
“They want to take it the next step and then use” the bill “as a weapon [against] others” after this bill passes, Lankford forecasted.
.@SenatorLankford states he will “absolutely oppose” a bill redefining marriage nationwide, warning that liberal activists plan to “use it as a weapon” to drive Christians out of the public square. https://t.co/ayNUxdjoD3
“The far-Left is trying to say we want to be able to push this to the next step” of the sexual revolution and “take it where it has not ever gone before,”
By voting on legislation for SOMETHING THAT IS ALREADY LAW?
Go ahead and vote against it, because voting against same sex marriage AND interracial marriage is such a popular position. Extending the marriage contract to same sex couples is “not sexual revolution.” It polls somewhere in the neighborhood of 60%-70% percent support for same sex marriage and over 90% support for interracial marriage. If by “crush people” you mean expect them to act like adults and not impose their extreme religious beliefs on everyone else, then yes, we expect that.
There is no far-left equivalent to the far-right fascists who attacked the Capitol and tried to overthrow the government. And the only ones looking to “crush” people are the right-wingers who want to overturn the Obergefell ruling and force their chosen religious beliefs down our throats.
How amusing. The very same people accusing us of pushing gay and “sexual agendas” on America are the very ones imposing their bullshit into women’s uteri.
Bitch, please. These are the same arguments they used to oppose Obergefell. It’s been seven years. None of those things happened. The only people affected are county clerks and gay couples who want to get married. All this law does is get rid of the last bits of DOMA so that when SCOTUS overturns Obergefell, gay couples in red states still have federal recognition of their legal marriages.
While a no vote will get little pushback or political damage here in Oklahoma I DARE R’s to collectively vote it down. That and their anti women agenda will hopefully blow up in their faces in November.
Host and veterans advocate Jon Stewart and activist Paul Rieckhoff join Morning Joe to discuss Republican senators who voted against a bill that would provide support to veterans affected by toxic burn pits after they had previously supported the legislation.
Justice Samuel Alito mocked foreign leaders who were critical of the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade in remarks to the Notre Dame Religious Liberty Summit in Rome. NBC’s Pete Williams reports.
Montana Democratic Senator John Tester delivered a passionate speech on the Senate Floor after Senate Republicans blocked a bill to provide military veterans access to healthcare for exposure to toxic burn pits.
Marjorie Taylor Greene recently expressed her interest in taking away Americans’ healthcare and then mocked the spread of Monkeypox. Texas Paul slams her absurd and dangerous statements.
What Texas Paul left out is it can be spread by skin to skin contact especially if contacting one of the open sores. Hugs
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