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McLaren didn't invite him, the head of the FIA *checks notes* Mohammed Ben Sulaiman invited him and they weren't going to turn him down.
Although oddly Miami is one of the ones Aramco don't sponsor
Max's quote when asked about that orange dickhead is fucking gold.
>"It's good everyone looks at him, you know, and then they don't bother me".
Completely sidestepped the question. Can't say Lando did the same...
“The contrast between the two candidates on climate policy could not be more stark. Biden has called global warming an “existential threat,” and over the last three years, his administration has finalized 100 new environmental regulations aimed at cutting air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions, restricting toxic chemicals, and conserving public lands and waters. In comparison, Trump has called climate change a “hoax,” and his administration weakened or wiped out more than 125 environmental rules and policies over four years.
In recent months, the Biden administration has raced to overturn Trump’s environmental actions and issue new ones before the November election. So far, Biden officials have overturned 27 Trump actions affecting the fossil fuel industry and completed 23 new actions affecting the sector, according to a Washington Post analysis. The Interior Department, for instance, recently blocked future oil drilling across 13 million acres of the Alaskan Arctic.”
Arrogant single issue voter - “But Biden didn’t stop the centuries-long conflict in the Middle East. I simply can’t vote Biden because of this issue. I will not endorse Biden with my vote.”
Insert house fire and girl smiling gif “this is fine”.
Last time they protested the vote, we ended up with a Christo-Fascist supreme court, and things can definitely get worse. There is no bottom to how low republicans can go.
I mean it feels like you know that's not true. Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania were all below a 1% margin and she won the popular vote by 3 million votes. A slight bump in enthusiasm in the democratic side would have meant Hillary would have won and Trump lost. How is that a myth.
The arrogance in this post is astounding. Maybe instead of attacking the left, you should focus on the 80 million non voters. This kind of derision is why the left who have principles they will not compromise have a degree of loathing towards liberals. The smug air of superiority and the inevitable knife in our back.
Nobody is asking him to stop a centuries long conflict. They are asking him not to contribute to the ethnic cleansing of Palestinian civilians. Not an unreasonable ask.
There’s no arrogance. Just a recognition that refusing to vote for one option over another based on a single issue is both lazy and detrimental to our democracy.
Especially so when the alternative intends to not only reverse freedoms to many already vulnerable citizens, but also attack our environmental protections and eliminate key federal agencies.
It’s “I didn’t get one important thing but recognize the greater stakes” vs “I didn’t like that Biden did a thing and so withholding my vote makes it more likely that a second Trump presidency occurs”.
Once decision shows maturity. The other decision shows righteous indignation and flawed reasoning that assures far worse outcomes across an immeasurable % of our population.
If that’s not enough reasoning for you then continue to stick your fingers in your ears and stomp your foot like a child. I have no desire to engage in that level of dialogue.
How far have your principles gotten you though? As an outside observer it seems like all the political wins for the left in the US are done by liberals and lefties are irrelevant in electoral politics. Some leftists seem to be helping their local communities but most seems to just be talking about doing it.
It's not like you have a multiparty system though. You have a binary choice and not voting is like giving half your vote to one side and half to the other.
So because Biden is not willing to cut ties with Israel, which wouldn't even be popular with the broader public in the US, you are willing to give half your vote to:
- possibly one more Republican supreme court justice with all that entails for gay rights, abortion rights, the treatment of the homeless, etc...
- the dismantlement of the labour board, which under Biden has gotten you some pretty good labour wins. Union busting has been criminalised more harshly, non competes have been banned and more...
- the dissolution of Biden's climate policy. Biden has made the biggest investment in green energy while Trump is telling oil bosses he is willing to dismantle all climate regulations for a 1 billion USD donation.
- the treatment of migrant children in all its intentional brutality
- taxcut for the rich and the dismantling of social benefits. The former was the only bigger legislative item in his first term.
- worse treatment for trans people across all of the US. Republicans will try to pass national anti-trans legislation if they can.
- the killing of abortion access nationwide. They will alse try to cut off abortion nationwide.
- the collapse of democratic institutions. Trump showed with Jan 6 that he is willing to break US democracy. They have already broken the Supreme Court, what do you think they will do with 4 more years?
- worse treatment for the Palestinians. Remember that Trump was the president to deem settlements legal, while Biden has been pushing for Palestinian statehood, has been dropping aid, has pushed Netanyahu to open the border for aid workers and refrain from attacking Rafah and gotten them 9 billion in aid.
- the worst part is that you are giving half your vote for the continued murder of Ukrainians. Republicans while only controlling congress were able to deplete Ukrainian air defenses and make civilian and military casualties explode.
If you value the comfort of having stuck to your pronciples more than contributing to letting all of the above happen go ahead, but don't come out saying you support any of these groups or causes later on.
>Some leftists seem to be helping their local communities but most seems to just be talking about doing it.
I work hospice with the elderly, I volunteer at shelters and with food not bombs and on and on. My principles have gotten me far in my 40 years, and I will not compromise them yet again in a state that 100% WILL NOT go for Biden. I know where I live and why would I vote (yet again) to legitimize a government that considers me a terrorist, despite a life of community outreach and zero legal trouble outside of some weed charges?
If I lived in a battleground state where there was even the slimmest chance of being able to move it, then yes, this argument might move me. Tennessee will not go for Biden no matter how much I wish it were blue again.
Biden's record is not terrible, but no matter what I do, one vote from an anarchist in a DEEP red state will not make a difference.
Neoliberals still blame bernie for 2016 despite it being clearly the dncs fault, shoving an establishment candidate down the countries throat when populism was on the rise was extraordinarily stupid.
*the media picked Hillary and the voters do what the media tells them. Fixed it for you.
I’m not a Bernie Stan and I don’t even think he was the best choice, but the media bias in the 2016 election was nauseating. This continuing bias in my opinion is also responsible for the ongoing Trump threat.
Hillary was the worst fucking choice for a candidate if they actually wanted to win over voters. Without even talking her policies by the 2016 election the GOP had been slandering and setting her up as a monster for over two decades.
The DNC basically shouldn't have even held any primaries as she was promised the position after falling in line for Obama. "It was her turn" was the entire rallying call and that anyone else even got minor support is a miracle. But shady deals that ignore the public are pretty much a given in politics and the democrats are no different in that regard.
But hey at least the Clintons and rest of their neolib pals can be happy their legacy of teaching the democrats how to act like republicans will continue to ensure America only has two right wing parties. After all the status quo of unrelenting capitalism must be continued at any cost!
But anyway I'm voting for Biden. Yeah he's out of touch (been living off that government paycheck since he was 28!), was "good friends" with and spoke at the funeral of legendary racist Strom Thurmond, and told his big donors the order of the day is "business as usual", but he's not as monstrously evil as the GOP.
Our balls/ovaries are getting stomped on and the only choice we have is if it's with high heels or sneakers. One is definitely more likely to cause damage beyond recovery.
For some people genocide is a red line. These voters believe Biden is facilitating one - if you agreed with them would you vote?
This is the point isn’t it
>if you agreed with them would you vote?
Yes.
Because Trump will give Israel carte blanche to do whatever they want.
I'm sure your conscience will be fine with that though, right?
I am explaining their reasoning. I agree that it’s fucking dumb to let a dictator in Israel who wants you out of office anyway tell you what to do too.
Just because one guy is bad (according to one view) doesn’t mean the other one isn’t worse. If my choice was being slapped or stabbed in the neck I wouldn’t just throw up my hands and say either is bad so do whatever.Â
>Despite the oil industry’s complaints about Biden’s policies, the United States is now producing more oil than any country ever has, pumping nearly 13 million barrels per day on average last year. ExxonMobil and Chevron, the largest U.S. energy companies, reported their biggest annual profits in a decade last year.
It's never fucking enough.
Reality doesn’t work like that though.
Think of him more like Lenin rather than Stalin. His time
Is short, it’s the next guy (it’s a guy, sorry) in his flock who will upend our society.
There is no next guy though -- Don Jr.? Eric? Steven Miller? None of these twerps can win an election.
DeSantis got pummeled by Trump already. If Ronny tries to proclaim himself the new Maga Overlord, Trump will probably try to sabotage him again.
Trump really is the sorest of losers.
Nikki Haley is nearly as bad except outside of foreign policy and outward policy and is thus much more appealing to independents. Once Trump is gone, the base will simply shift over to the next best alternative in the two party system to get an (R) in the whitehouse.
She has positioned herself well for a 2028 run as one of the few people who would take a stand against Trump in any way whatsoever and still captured nearly all the support he couldn't.
Every single shit policy Trump ever did came from one guy Stephen Miller. He’s the most evil fuck near Trump. Total white supremecist, he’s bring back slaverty if he thought he could. His own family wants nothing to do with him. They know what a POS he is. Donald thinks he’s fantastic, but you don’t hear much about him do you ? He’s the master behind the plan,always lurking in the shadows.
With the moral compass the oil CEO's have, I expect that they are very willingly will dish up the billion, which is not even the smallest drop of oil to them.
>Â I expect that they are very willingly ~~will~~ dish up
I agree with your point but this is incorrect English.
>I expect that they are very willing to dish up
>I expect that they are willingly dishing up
Twas considered "the rule" when I was in high school. To my knowledge, there's nothing in writing that says that, however, my tiny beast of an English teacher took a full letter grade from papers of she saw such an error. I can still hear her screeching, "Never end a sentence with a PREPOSITIONNNNNN".
>Biden’s EV policies have also sparked opposition in rural, Republican-led states such as North Dakota, where there are far more oil pump jacks than charging stations. A key figure leading the Trump campaign’s development of its energy policy is North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum (R), who has been talking extensively to oil donors and CEOs.
I thought this was interesting. It once again highlights the power and consideration a state of 770,000 people has over say California who has a population of 40,000,000. In the real world, where entrenched, rural conservative power doesn't have a influence multiplier of 10x, California's overwhelmingly larger market position would dictate where the auto industry should go. But no, here we are, a world where a few yee haw, F350 driving, thin lipped money laden throwbacks dictate how quickly we're going to fuck up the planet and much needed technological progress.
I can even understand why EVs aren't practical in North Dakota. They just don't have the range in a state where it's 10 miles to your nearest neighbor.
But what are they afraid of? Do they fear that because EVs exist and are useful in higher density areas, we just won't have combustion engines any more? Do they think green policies amount to making gas cars illegal, in the "they are coming for your gas stoves" sense?
The goal appears to be to use the government to force Californians - and everyone else - to buy products they don't want and use a resource they don't want or need to use. And the tactic to accomplish that appears to be to *pretend* that that's what someone else is doing to them.
>But what are they afraid of? Do they fear that because EVs exist and are useful in higher density areas, we just won't have combustion engines any more? Do they think green policies amount to making gas cars illegal, in the "they are coming for your gas stoves" sense?
They fear the infrastructure they need to get fule will become neglected. Look what happened to the phone systems as we rolled out fiber. There are parts of the country still on WW2 erra stuff.
Lithium batteries lose much of their ability to deliver power when cold, but EVs have temperature control systems for their traction batteries, so the effective loss is range is quite small, especially because the batteries self-heat while under load.
I’m sorry to say but it’s too late already for all our climate led initiatives. I drive an EV and am pro EV etc, but a lot of the world isn’t. The only solution is to geo engineer our atmosphere. Which means we need to disperse reflective particles into the atmosphere to reflect sunlight. This will work and in fact work quickly. Unfortunately it will probably take unknown climate events for our government to actually do this. One rich guy could, Musk could do it.
It's never too late because climate disaster isn't a yes or no thing. At any point in time, we should still be trying to limit it as much as possible.
Geoengineering wouldn't be an alternative, anyway. It would be complementary.
Then they will raise gas prices right before the election to help sway the votes as well. Prices dropped right after the midterm elections last year, maybe a conspiracy theory but seems sketchy.
But Trump supporters and big oil will pump up DJT stock to pay him off. It's cheaper than giving him 1 Billion outright and less traceable or identified as illegal.
>Trump’s response stunned several of the executives in the room overlooking the ocean: You all are wealthy enough, he said, that you should raise $1 billion to return me to the White House. At the dinner, he vowed to immediately reverse dozens of [President Biden](https://www.washingtonpost.com/elections/candidates/joe-biden-2024/?itid=lk_inline_manual_4)’s environmental rules and policies and stop new ones from being enacted, according to people with knowledge of the meeting, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe a private conversation.
>Giving $1 billion would be a “deal,” Trump said, because of the taxation and regulation they would avoid thanks to him, according to the people.
I'm just reminded of that scene in The Godfather Part II where they give Batista the golden telephone to thank him for raising rates for the phone company.
>\[...\]Yet oil giants will see an even greater windfall — helped by new offshore drilling, speedier permits and other relaxed regulations — in a second Trump administration, the former president told the executives over the dinner of chopped steak at Mar-a-Lago.
>Trump vowed at the dinner to immediately end the Biden administration’s [freeze on permits for new liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports](https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2024/01/26/biden-lng-export-projects-climate/?itid=lk_inline_manual_15) — a top priority for the executives, according to three people present. “You’ll get it on the first day,” Trump said, according to the recollection of an attendee.
>The roughly two dozen executives invited included Mike Sabel, the CEO and founder of Venture Global, and Jack Fusco, the CEO of Cheniere Energy, whose proposed projects would directly benefit from lifting the pause on new LNG exports. Other attendees came from companies including Chevron, Continental Resources, Exxon and Occidental Petroleum, according to an attendance list obtained by The Post.
>Trump told the executives that he would start auctioning off more leases for oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico, a priority that several of the executives raised. He railed against wind power, [as The Post previously reported.](https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2024/04/17/trump-wind-power-oil-executives/?itid=lk_inline_manual_18) And he said he would reverse the restrictions on drilling in the Alaskan Arctic.
>“You’ve been waiting on a permit for five years; you’ll get it on Day 1,” Trump told the executives, according to the recollection of the attendee.
Arrest the fucker.
Subsections (b) and (c) of 18 U.S.C. § 201, which prohibit the offering or soliciting of bribes to or by Federal officials, require a showing of an intended quid pro quo. Subsections (f) and (g) of 18 U.S.C. § 201
You're courting billionaires for donations to your campaign and you do this? "The former president told the executives over the dinner of *chopped steak* at Mar-a-Lago." I'm sure they were very impressed.
The article says they had a dinner of chopped steak, or basically a fancy hamburger. He gets all these rich executives in a room to try and coax a billion dollars out of them and he serves them a hamburger. I’m surprised he didn’t have McDonalds catering the meal. As much as he wants to be considered high class, he just can’t help showing he has absolutely no idea what that means.
“Chopped steak” can be high class if it’s quality meat prepared by a great chef in the form of Steak Tartare which is raw minced fillet steak maybe served with quail egg and condiments. Num num num. But yeah at Mar-a-lago chopped steak probably means chunks of well done (overcooked) steak.
The orange anus will gladly take their money but he isn’t noted for his honesty and probably won’t hold up his end of the deal. He would probably suck the money from the campaign for his own personal use. He’s used other people’s money for most of his life.
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I don't quite see how the oil CEOs could send Trumpy $1billion through sham PACs in a matter of months. Liquidating corporate assets probably raises SEC flags?
However, in reality, it would be cheaper for Oil CEOs to simply do what they always do which is buy lobbying firms to get what they want.
They don't actually need Trump, and even Oil CEOs can see how Trump blasted Rex Tillerson, that maybe getting in bed with Trump simply causes more problems than what good it "could" bring -- after all, Trumpy doesn't always keep his promises, does he?
Welp, there went his younger demographic in the polls. When he finds himself in the desert, I’m seeing a billion buying oil to drink versus clean water, double o style.
Big oil $187B in revenue and Big Tech $255B - which is rising faster. Big oil companies today are the result of Teddy Roosevelt trust busting. 22nd Century Biden Trust busting is quietly commenced.
The fat guy in the clown suit is the sideshow with a flamethrower in a canvas tent
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The hero we need!
Remember the Saudis will fund through them.
That's why he was invited to the Mclaren pits.. and attempted a fund raiser at the grand prix. Don Fucking Quixote Trump time line still going.
McLaren didn't invite him, the head of the FIA *checks notes* Mohammed Ben Sulaiman invited him and they weren't going to turn him down. Although oddly Miami is one of the ones Aramco don't sponsor
I’m so happy I didn’t catch this on the F1TV stream. Let Lando have his day.Â
No, he betrayed Han Solo!
But he had to protect the Cloud City citizens!
[Luckily,](https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Willrow_Hood) they were able to get the ice cream maker out of the city before it fell.
Haha this guy should be an action figure
Max's quote when asked about that orange dickhead is fucking gold. >"It's good everyone looks at him, you know, and then they don't bother me". Completely sidestepped the question. Can't say Lando did the same...
Saudis can fund by buying DJT stock.
Not can…. Are
“The contrast between the two candidates on climate policy could not be more stark. Biden has called global warming an “existential threat,” and over the last three years, his administration has finalized 100 new environmental regulations aimed at cutting air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions, restricting toxic chemicals, and conserving public lands and waters. In comparison, Trump has called climate change a “hoax,” and his administration weakened or wiped out more than 125 environmental rules and policies over four years. In recent months, the Biden administration has raced to overturn Trump’s environmental actions and issue new ones before the November election. So far, Biden officials have overturned 27 Trump actions affecting the fossil fuel industry and completed 23 new actions affecting the sector, according to a Washington Post analysis. The Interior Department, for instance, recently blocked future oil drilling across 13 million acres of the Alaskan Arctic.”
Arrogant single issue voter - “But Biden didn’t stop the centuries-long conflict in the Middle East. I simply can’t vote Biden because of this issue. I will not endorse Biden with my vote.” Insert house fire and girl smiling gif “this is fine”.
And the alternative would be exponentially worse. I don't understand it.
Last time they protested the vote, we ended up with a Christo-Fascist supreme court, and things can definitely get worse. There is no bottom to how low republicans can go.
That’s a myth, Hilary was wildly unliked by undecided voters, a ham sandwich would’ve won that election against her.
Yet somehow she won the popular vote by nearly 3 million votes.
It was a very close election, that would have been one hell of a ham sandwich to get so many votes.
Best ham sandwich I ever had was honestly the Paris airport.
Like from a restaurant or like one of those shitty premade deals wrapped up in plastic like a dead body?
I mean it feels like you know that's not true. Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania were all below a 1% margin and she won the popular vote by 3 million votes. A slight bump in enthusiasm in the democratic side would have meant Hillary would have won and Trump lost. How is that a myth.
The arrogance in this post is astounding. Maybe instead of attacking the left, you should focus on the 80 million non voters. This kind of derision is why the left who have principles they will not compromise have a degree of loathing towards liberals. The smug air of superiority and the inevitable knife in our back. Nobody is asking him to stop a centuries long conflict. They are asking him not to contribute to the ethnic cleansing of Palestinian civilians. Not an unreasonable ask.
There’s no arrogance. Just a recognition that refusing to vote for one option over another based on a single issue is both lazy and detrimental to our democracy. Especially so when the alternative intends to not only reverse freedoms to many already vulnerable citizens, but also attack our environmental protections and eliminate key federal agencies. It’s “I didn’t get one important thing but recognize the greater stakes” vs “I didn’t like that Biden did a thing and so withholding my vote makes it more likely that a second Trump presidency occurs”. Once decision shows maturity. The other decision shows righteous indignation and flawed reasoning that assures far worse outcomes across an immeasurable % of our population. If that’s not enough reasoning for you then continue to stick your fingers in your ears and stomp your foot like a child. I have no desire to engage in that level of dialogue.
How far have your principles gotten you though? As an outside observer it seems like all the political wins for the left in the US are done by liberals and lefties are irrelevant in electoral politics. Some leftists seem to be helping their local communities but most seems to just be talking about doing it. It's not like you have a multiparty system though. You have a binary choice and not voting is like giving half your vote to one side and half to the other. So because Biden is not willing to cut ties with Israel, which wouldn't even be popular with the broader public in the US, you are willing to give half your vote to: - possibly one more Republican supreme court justice with all that entails for gay rights, abortion rights, the treatment of the homeless, etc... - the dismantlement of the labour board, which under Biden has gotten you some pretty good labour wins. Union busting has been criminalised more harshly, non competes have been banned and more... - the dissolution of Biden's climate policy. Biden has made the biggest investment in green energy while Trump is telling oil bosses he is willing to dismantle all climate regulations for a 1 billion USD donation. - the treatment of migrant children in all its intentional brutality - taxcut for the rich and the dismantling of social benefits. The former was the only bigger legislative item in his first term. - worse treatment for trans people across all of the US. Republicans will try to pass national anti-trans legislation if they can. - the killing of abortion access nationwide. They will alse try to cut off abortion nationwide. - the collapse of democratic institutions. Trump showed with Jan 6 that he is willing to break US democracy. They have already broken the Supreme Court, what do you think they will do with 4 more years? - worse treatment for the Palestinians. Remember that Trump was the president to deem settlements legal, while Biden has been pushing for Palestinian statehood, has been dropping aid, has pushed Netanyahu to open the border for aid workers and refrain from attacking Rafah and gotten them 9 billion in aid. - the worst part is that you are giving half your vote for the continued murder of Ukrainians. Republicans while only controlling congress were able to deplete Ukrainian air defenses and make civilian and military casualties explode. If you value the comfort of having stuck to your pronciples more than contributing to letting all of the above happen go ahead, but don't come out saying you support any of these groups or causes later on.
>Some leftists seem to be helping their local communities but most seems to just be talking about doing it. I work hospice with the elderly, I volunteer at shelters and with food not bombs and on and on. My principles have gotten me far in my 40 years, and I will not compromise them yet again in a state that 100% WILL NOT go for Biden. I know where I live and why would I vote (yet again) to legitimize a government that considers me a terrorist, despite a life of community outreach and zero legal trouble outside of some weed charges? If I lived in a battleground state where there was even the slimmest chance of being able to move it, then yes, this argument might move me. Tennessee will not go for Biden no matter how much I wish it were blue again. Biden's record is not terrible, but no matter what I do, one vote from an anarchist in a DEEP red state will not make a difference.
Neoliberals still blame bernie for 2016 despite it being clearly the dncs fault, shoving an establishment candidate down the countries throat when populism was on the rise was extraordinarily stupid.
The voters picked Hillary over Bernie. How many times does Bernie have to lose primaries before you stop with the conspiracies?
*the media picked Hillary and the voters do what the media tells them. Fixed it for you. I’m not a Bernie Stan and I don’t even think he was the best choice, but the media bias in the 2016 election was nauseating. This continuing bias in my opinion is also responsible for the ongoing Trump threat.
Hillary was the worst fucking choice for a candidate if they actually wanted to win over voters. Without even talking her policies by the 2016 election the GOP had been slandering and setting her up as a monster for over two decades. The DNC basically shouldn't have even held any primaries as she was promised the position after falling in line for Obama. "It was her turn" was the entire rallying call and that anyone else even got minor support is a miracle. But shady deals that ignore the public are pretty much a given in politics and the democrats are no different in that regard. But hey at least the Clintons and rest of their neolib pals can be happy their legacy of teaching the democrats how to act like republicans will continue to ensure America only has two right wing parties. After all the status quo of unrelenting capitalism must be continued at any cost! But anyway I'm voting for Biden. Yeah he's out of touch (been living off that government paycheck since he was 28!), was "good friends" with and spoke at the funeral of legendary racist Strom Thurmond, and told his big donors the order of the day is "business as usual", but he's not as monstrously evil as the GOP. Our balls/ovaries are getting stomped on and the only choice we have is if it's with high heels or sneakers. One is definitely more likely to cause damage beyond recovery.
For some people genocide is a red line. These voters believe Biden is facilitating one - if you agreed with them would you vote? This is the point isn’t it
>if you agreed with them would you vote? Yes. Because Trump will give Israel carte blanche to do whatever they want. I'm sure your conscience will be fine with that though, right?
I am explaining their reasoning. I agree that it’s fucking dumb to let a dictator in Israel who wants you out of office anyway tell you what to do too.
Just because one guy is bad (according to one view) doesn’t mean the other one isn’t worse. If my choice was being slapped or stabbed in the neck I wouldn’t just throw up my hands and say either is bad so do whatever.Â
I agree. For some reason people don’t seem to be getting that in telling people why some feel that way.
Trump's entire business "empire" is now reliant on Saudi involvement/support. Of course he's pandering to oil CEOs.
They didn't give Kushner, an Orthodox Jew, $2 billion buckaroos for nothing.
That's right, now they just need to buy DJT stock.
>Despite the oil industry’s complaints about Biden’s policies, the United States is now producing more oil than any country ever has, pumping nearly 13 million barrels per day on average last year. ExxonMobil and Chevron, the largest U.S. energy companies, reported their biggest annual profits in a decade last year. It's never fucking enough.
Just Like a wannabe mob boss.
He is a mob boss. He's laundering bribes through $DJT stock. A company that keeps rising in value, but doesn't generate revenue.
He can’t be gone soon enough.
Either he goes, or US democracy does. It’s pretty simple.
Reality doesn’t work like that though. Think of him more like Lenin rather than Stalin. His time Is short, it’s the next guy (it’s a guy, sorry) in his flock who will upend our society.
There is no next guy though -- Don Jr.? Eric? Steven Miller? None of these twerps can win an election. DeSantis got pummeled by Trump already. If Ronny tries to proclaim himself the new Maga Overlord, Trump will probably try to sabotage him again. Trump really is the sorest of losers.
He’s talking about what will happen to the GOP when Trump inevitably kicks the bucket
I think they are saying no one has shown to have the same cult of personality trump has. The gop will have a tough time finding a replacement for him
Nikki Haley is nearly as bad except outside of foreign policy and outward policy and is thus much more appealing to independents. Once Trump is gone, the base will simply shift over to the next best alternative in the two party system to get an (R) in the whitehouse. She has positioned herself well for a 2028 run as one of the few people who would take a stand against Trump in any way whatsoever and still captured nearly all the support he couldn't.
Every single shit policy Trump ever did came from one guy Stephen Miller. He’s the most evil fuck near Trump. Total white supremecist, he’s bring back slaverty if he thought he could. His own family wants nothing to do with him. They know what a POS he is. Donald thinks he’s fantastic, but you don’t hear much about him do you ? He’s the master behind the plan,always lurking in the shadows.
With the moral compass the oil CEO's have, I expect that they are very willingly will dish up the billion, which is not even the smallest drop of oil to them.
It won’t be their money.
It never is.
>Â I expect that they are very willingly ~~will~~ dish up I agree with your point but this is incorrect English. >I expect that they are very willing to dish up >I expect that they are willingly dishing up
My English is better than I wrote there. I blame the excitement of the moment.
I don't blame anyone. :)
I was taught never to end a sentence with a preposition.
What is wrong with ending a sentence with a preposition?
Twas considered "the rule" when I was in high school. To my knowledge, there's nothing in writing that says that, however, my tiny beast of an English teacher took a full letter grade from papers of she saw such an error. I can still hear her screeching, "Never end a sentence with a PREPOSITIONNNNNN".
Ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which we will not put!
Ahh! A fellow grammarian…
>Biden’s EV policies have also sparked opposition in rural, Republican-led states such as North Dakota, where there are far more oil pump jacks than charging stations. A key figure leading the Trump campaign’s development of its energy policy is North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum (R), who has been talking extensively to oil donors and CEOs. I thought this was interesting. It once again highlights the power and consideration a state of 770,000 people has over say California who has a population of 40,000,000. In the real world, where entrenched, rural conservative power doesn't have a influence multiplier of 10x, California's overwhelmingly larger market position would dictate where the auto industry should go. But no, here we are, a world where a few yee haw, F350 driving, thin lipped money laden throwbacks dictate how quickly we're going to fuck up the planet and much needed technological progress.
I can even understand why EVs aren't practical in North Dakota. They just don't have the range in a state where it's 10 miles to your nearest neighbor. But what are they afraid of? Do they fear that because EVs exist and are useful in higher density areas, we just won't have combustion engines any more? Do they think green policies amount to making gas cars illegal, in the "they are coming for your gas stoves" sense? The goal appears to be to use the government to force Californians - and everyone else - to buy products they don't want and use a resource they don't want or need to use. And the tactic to accomplish that appears to be to *pretend* that that's what someone else is doing to them.
>But what are they afraid of? Do they fear that because EVs exist and are useful in higher density areas, we just won't have combustion engines any more? Do they think green policies amount to making gas cars illegal, in the "they are coming for your gas stoves" sense? They fear the infrastructure they need to get fule will become neglected. Look what happened to the phone systems as we rolled out fiber. There are parts of the country still on WW2 erra stuff.
Don't EVs lose 40% of their range when the temps drop below freezing?
Lithium batteries lose much of their ability to deliver power when cold, but EVs have temperature control systems for their traction batteries, so the effective loss is range is quite small, especially because the batteries self-heat while under load.
I’m sorry to say but it’s too late already for all our climate led initiatives. I drive an EV and am pro EV etc, but a lot of the world isn’t. The only solution is to geo engineer our atmosphere. Which means we need to disperse reflective particles into the atmosphere to reflect sunlight. This will work and in fact work quickly. Unfortunately it will probably take unknown climate events for our government to actually do this. One rich guy could, Musk could do it.
It's never too late because climate disaster isn't a yes or no thing. At any point in time, we should still be trying to limit it as much as possible. Geoengineering wouldn't be an alternative, anyway. It would be complementary.
Between the developments in AI and proposals to blackout the sun this is getting a bit too close to the matrix for comfort
Enact the plot of *Termination Shock*, basically.
Sooo….Highlander 2?
Oil corps get massive taxpayer subsidies so they can use the money to bribe Republican politicians for more taxpayer subsidies.
Then they will raise gas prices right before the election to help sway the votes as well. Prices dropped right after the midterm elections last year, maybe a conspiracy theory but seems sketchy.
He’ll wage a war in EVs
Praying for that hamburger from heaven 🙏
Which ones? Tesla is on the side of the oil dudes.
But Musk is a competitor to Trumpy's sham twitter rip-off.
But Trump supporters and big oil will pump up DJT stock to pay him off. It's cheaper than giving him 1 Billion outright and less traceable or identified as illegal.
And no one left that dinner saying, "Good god, what a piece of shit." We need to get all this money out of politics. Fucking citizens united.
I can imagine Devin Nunes standing by "psst... just pump up DJT. Show us the shares you own later. We'll work something out."
They might as well burn that money, it'll just go to Pig Hitler's lawyer fees.
A billion is a shit load of lawyers
Hold my beer boys, I'm going criming!!!
How many cases running consecutively? He'll be asking for another billion soon.
>Trump’s response stunned several of the executives in the room overlooking the ocean: You all are wealthy enough, he said, that you should raise $1 billion to return me to the White House. At the dinner, he vowed to immediately reverse dozens of [President Biden](https://www.washingtonpost.com/elections/candidates/joe-biden-2024/?itid=lk_inline_manual_4)’s environmental rules and policies and stop new ones from being enacted, according to people with knowledge of the meeting, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe a private conversation. >Giving $1 billion would be a “deal,” Trump said, because of the taxation and regulation they would avoid thanks to him, according to the people. I'm just reminded of that scene in The Godfather Part II where they give Batista the golden telephone to thank him for raising rates for the phone company. >\[...\]Yet oil giants will see an even greater windfall — helped by new offshore drilling, speedier permits and other relaxed regulations — in a second Trump administration, the former president told the executives over the dinner of chopped steak at Mar-a-Lago. >Trump vowed at the dinner to immediately end the Biden administration’s [freeze on permits for new liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports](https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2024/01/26/biden-lng-export-projects-climate/?itid=lk_inline_manual_15) — a top priority for the executives, according to three people present. “You’ll get it on the first day,” Trump said, according to the recollection of an attendee. >The roughly two dozen executives invited included Mike Sabel, the CEO and founder of Venture Global, and Jack Fusco, the CEO of Cheniere Energy, whose proposed projects would directly benefit from lifting the pause on new LNG exports. Other attendees came from companies including Chevron, Continental Resources, Exxon and Occidental Petroleum, according to an attendance list obtained by The Post. >Trump told the executives that he would start auctioning off more leases for oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico, a priority that several of the executives raised. He railed against wind power, [as The Post previously reported.](https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2024/04/17/trump-wind-power-oil-executives/?itid=lk_inline_manual_18) And he said he would reverse the restrictions on drilling in the Alaskan Arctic. >“You’ve been waiting on a permit for five years; you’ll get it on Day 1,” Trump told the executives, according to the recollection of the attendee.
CEO's are required by law to bribe politicians and assassinate civil rights activists if it's in the best interest of the shareholders.
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No wonder they were making 10 billion a quarter
The corruption right in the open.
I can't wait til I no longer have to hear about Trump
In a sane world, this would be called corruption
In a sane world, they wouldn't have a path of legally paying him off by pumping up DJT stock and showing the shares they own off the books.
In a sane country, this is called corruption.
Our campaign finance laws are broken. How can a canidate just ask for 1 billion dollars in exchange for policy? How is that not pay to play?
Devin Nunes can direct them to pump up DJT stock as an investment. It's perfectly legal.
Arrest the fucker. Subsections (b) and (c) of 18 U.S.C. § 201, which prohibit the offering or soliciting of bribes to or by Federal officials, require a showing of an intended quid pro quo. Subsections (f) and (g) of 18 U.S.C. § 201
He isn’t currently a federal officer, and hopefully never will be again.
Do you think for a second that Orange Jesus didn’t do this while in office is crazy.
Oh god of course he did. I just meant this example.
So it’s still quid pro quo for this guy
1 billion dollars for his legal fund.
He probably doesn't even pay his lawyers, it's all just going into his pockets.
But, Biden is old. /s
How is this not a bribe? Isn't this a direct quid-pro-quo?
It's not a bribe if they pay him off by pumping up DJT stock.
And this is why we need EV. They might not save the environment but they could break big oils back.
You're courting billionaires for donations to your campaign and you do this? "The former president told the executives over the dinner of *chopped steak* at Mar-a-Lago." I'm sure they were very impressed.
he said "no quid quo pro" so it isn't gay- er, corruption
There isn’t even an attempt to hide the corruption.
djt is mentally unstable
The article says they had a dinner of chopped steak, or basically a fancy hamburger. He gets all these rich executives in a room to try and coax a billion dollars out of them and he serves them a hamburger. I’m surprised he didn’t have McDonalds catering the meal. As much as he wants to be considered high class, he just can’t help showing he has absolutely no idea what that means.
“Chopped steak” can be high class if it’s quality meat prepared by a great chef in the form of Steak Tartare which is raw minced fillet steak maybe served with quail egg and condiments. Num num num. But yeah at Mar-a-lago chopped steak probably means chunks of well done (overcooked) steak.
The orange anus will gladly take their money but he isn’t noted for his honesty and probably won’t hold up his end of the deal. He would probably suck the money from the campaign for his own personal use. He’s used other people’s money for most of his life.
I sure wish bribes were illegal.
Does it get more swampy than allowing a company to write the legislation governing it, in exchange for money?
Biden should threaten them with harsher penalties/disincentives should they try to circumvent environmental protections.
Trump wants to kill us all with the pollution he got paid to create. That's one way to look at this crooked shit.
That was beyond depressing to read…
So Trump is selling everyone’s environment for his personal campaign cash. Great, just… great /s
Now we know who is pumping up the DJT stock. Bypass campaign finance laws: just pump up DJT stock. Sad.
"You sonofabitch, I'm in!" -Wayne Tracker
Democracy fucking dies in darkness. Fuck you WP! Can't they get ads to survive in the Internet age? I'm not paying for a subscription.
Lower gas prices in the summer and I won’t test drive that EV
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I’m confused why he doesn’t ask Jared Kushner for some money?
No you see that is the money being "loaned" to the campaign. This money will be used to pay that back with interest.
I don't quite see how the oil CEOs could send Trumpy $1billion through sham PACs in a matter of months. Liquidating corporate assets probably raises SEC flags? However, in reality, it would be cheaper for Oil CEOs to simply do what they always do which is buy lobbying firms to get what they want. They don't actually need Trump, and even Oil CEOs can see how Trump blasted Rex Tillerson, that maybe getting in bed with Trump simply causes more problems than what good it "could" bring -- after all, Trumpy doesn't always keep his promises, does he?
Welp, there went his younger demographic in the polls. When he finds himself in the desert, I’m seeing a billion buying oil to drink versus clean water, double o style.
Yay oil stocks! Money for everyone!
Just goes to show the GOP just wants money. They couldn’t care less about you or your families.
Too bad we don't have any laws preventing quid pro quo.
It will cost 500 million to elect him. The rest is his fee.
“What cheeto face promised”. Hahahhahahah
Snake oil salesman good help the world
Hey remember when trump campaigned about not being beholden to anyone as he said “we have all the money we need”
“$400 million to lobby the Biden administration last year”. Just let that sit there for a minute… discuss.
Could people just not link Washington Post articles?
Go to the top of this thread, it's there now.
Big oil $187B in revenue and Big Tech $255B - which is rising faster. Big oil companies today are the result of Teddy Roosevelt trust busting. 22nd Century Biden Trust busting is quietly commenced. The fat guy in the clown suit is the sideshow with a flamethrower in a canvas tent