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So glad that “power of the purse” and those “checks and balances” are working as designed.
If the headline made it sound bad, it's worse:
Instead, TotalEnergies will now spend the money on the development of a new liquified natural gas plant in Texas that will help export US LNG overseas to Europe, CEO Patrick Pouyanné said in a statement. The money will also go towards the company’s development of oil drilling operations in the Gulf of Mexico and shale oil projects elsewhere in the US.
As if it's even worth pointing out the atom-thin silver lining: at least they called the Gulf of Mexico by its actual real name
Not only has the company been paid off, it seems ol' Pat got himself a nice, tidy bag o' cash on the side.
Step 1: Get wind farm contract during Democratic Presidential term.
Step 2: Do nothing until a Republican becomes president
Step 3: ????
Step 4: Get paid one billion dollars.
I mean, I would have not built wind farms for $950 million. I'm right here
Anything and everything but actually making life better for people in this country.
What kind of complete idiots voted for these corrupt assholes? How stupid do you have to be? These are people who should be wearing helmets just to get through the day unscathed, but instead they’re carrying guns.
I like to think even the idiots who voted for Trump didn't want half of what he's doing.
yet they would vote for him again. its vibe democracy.
Where are the MAGAts who whinge about not wanting their taxes to go to x, y, z? Silly question, really. They'll support anything the Orange Shit Dildo spends their taxes on, but not anything Democratic Presidents spend their taxes on.
Corruption to the core
I am so tired.
ArT oF ThE DeAl
Wow.
Art of the deal
So they bribed an oil company into investing in oil instead of renewables. Usually that's the other way
But this guy did ghost write the art of the deal...
At this point, we all deserve it for not fighting back.
what am i supposed to do, take him out myself???
General strike.
That is one possibility, staging meaningful protests are another, less violent variant. At this point all USA citizen are complacent. After WW2 the only good Germans were those in the resistance.
protests never seem to work. contacting my representatives doesn’t seem to work either. i don’t think peace is the way to get change anymore unfortunately, but it’s a big ask to want someone to take a violent action that will most likely lead to jail time.
Protests in the way they are currently done in the USA are meaningless, that's why I added meaningful in front of it. If the protest is scheduled to end after 6 hours and happens every few weeks, why should the government care?
And don't come with the "we are economically scared and don't have enough funds for that" bullshit. Do you think the people protesting the socialist governments at the end of the 80s under fear of being taken prisoner had a big secure funding or did they protest because they were fed up with their situation and protested as long as necessary to bring down their dictators?
Do you think the people protesting the islamist governments in the Arab Spring under fear of being taken prisoner had a big secure funding or did they protest because they were fed up with their situation and protested as long as necessary to bring down their dictators?
Best I could do was emigrate and deprive the regime of our taxes. My family and my wife's were Americans for less than two generations anyway, to fuckery with the empire.
Congratulations on getting out! I do not envy you for having to make that decision. But not everybody has the means for emigration though. So hopefully they can stop that madness sooner than later.
I thought to wash my hands of the whole bad business, but the view from afar is no better. Every day new grief and madness, and I cannot look away.
I thought the US was having an energy emergency
We're kind of not at all having an energy emergency, actually. Most states have pretty diverse energy generation portfolios, so electricity costs are not as responsive to global oil prices as e.g. gasoline for cars. The reality is there's already tons of wind and solar online, and that's going to continue even if Trump tries to stop projects on federally controlled land
Of course he will. He's on a roll... he's got a 100% streak going presently - he's on track to 100% destroy America by our "250th birthday".
It makes putin wet in the crotch area just thinking about it... his lifelong goal of destroying America and U.S. democracy is within his grasp.
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