“Storming a breech, conducting an embassy, ruling a nation are glittering deeds. Rebuking, laughing, buying, selling, loving, hating, and living together gently and justly with your household and with yourself is something more difficult.” --Montaigne
***Last year the United States became the world’s largest LNG exporter, surpassing Qatar and Australia. U.S. exports rose 14.7 percent to a record 88.9 million metric tons (MT), or 8.6 billion cubic feet per day.
U.S. supplied almost a fifth of all gas to the EU and the U.K., up from 5 percent in 2021.
U.S. supplied almost a fifth of all gas to the EU and the U.K., up from 5 percent in 2021.
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Debate
Debate
One of America's mysteries is its reverence for debates and their peculiar skill sets.
This debate was certainly a mess. The Trump camp will talk about ABC bias and slanted questions and analysis with ridiculously selective fact-checking. They will be right but they did agree to the circumstances and certainly knew what was coming. What is astounding is they seem surprised, as if they thought the left-leaning press was going to rise to the occasion and become even-handed. But there is no denying the impression: Trump was as expected and Harris, while mediocre and unabashedly untruthful and calculating, was better than expected.
Harris was brilliantly, sympathetically bland, repeating each question in a way that gave her the option to take her answer in any direction. And she often ended her comments with some statement that would stimulate the direction of Trump's response.
The moderators vigilantly guarded the DNC's interests.
No questions on the debt, none on Americans being killed in the Middle East by Iranian proxies, no question on the American killed by the Israelis, no question on America's military readiness, no question on Harris' childish economic suggestions like national rent control and taxation of unrealized capital gains, no question on Iran, no question about the execution of an American by Hamas.
And no question about China.
This debate was certainly a mess. The Trump camp will talk about ABC bias and slanted questions and analysis with ridiculously selective fact-checking. They will be right but they did agree to the circumstances and certainly knew what was coming. What is astounding is they seem surprised, as if they thought the left-leaning press was going to rise to the occasion and become even-handed. But there is no denying the impression: Trump was as expected and Harris, while mediocre and unabashedly untruthful and calculating, was better than expected.
Harris was brilliantly, sympathetically bland, repeating each question in a way that gave her the option to take her answer in any direction. And she often ended her comments with some statement that would stimulate the direction of Trump's response.
The moderators vigilantly guarded the DNC's interests.
No questions on the debt, none on Americans being killed in the Middle East by Iranian proxies, no question on the American killed by the Israelis, no question on America's military readiness, no question on Harris' childish economic suggestions like national rent control and taxation of unrealized capital gains, no question on Iran, no question about the execution of an American by Hamas.
And no question about China.
It was a display of two mediocre candidates for the most important position in the free world being interviewed by two shallow partisans disguised as the Free Press.
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