Paul Cantrell
JFC
“One [oil] executive complained about how they continued to face burdensome environmental regulations despite spending $400 million to lobby the Biden administration in the last year.
“Trump’s response stunned several of the executives in the room overlooking the ocean:
Paul Cantrell
“You all are wealthy enough, he said, that you should raise $1 billion to return me to the White House. … He vowed to immediately reverse dozens of Biden’s environmental rules and policies and stop new ones from being enacted.”
“Trump’s remarkably blunt and transactional pitch reveals how the former president is targeting the oil industry to finance his reelection bid.”
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Jeff Miller (orange hatband)
@inthehands "The Art of the Deal" x "Saying the Quiet Part Out Loud"
jonathanpeterson
@inthehands To be fair, Trump is just saying the quiet part out loud. It's not like oil companies don't know which party is happy to let them spill oil across the Gulf of Mexico, Alaskan wilderness and native american reservations, while boiling the oceans with global warming in the quest to keep giant pedestrian crushing trucks red state america loves to drive supplied with cheap gas.
Paul Cantrell
@jonathanpeterson
Yeah, it’s not like we don’t know all this exists as an undercurrent — but the nakedness of it, the shamelessness, the brazen magnitude of his demand, the sense of total impunity, all of that truly is shocking.
Paul Cantrell
Re what I said in the replies here: https://hachyderm.io/@inthehands/112411652546933945
…this feels like that ADM price fixing scandal (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lysine_price-fixing_conspiracy ) where prosecutors nabbed them because a bunch of high-ups basically got together in a room and said, “OK, cartel meeting called to order. Let’s conspire to fix prices!” — not in so many words, but damned close. No sense they needed to be discreet, no sense that anyone could ever hold them accountable. Totally invulnerable in their own minds.
Paul Cantrell
@failedLyndonLaRouchite
I just can’t get on board with that. I hear you, but I can’t get on board. I much prefer the wink and nod of traditional politics because it implies that there is a counterbalancing force to corruption, that democracy is still at least present in the room. Shamelessness is not a virtue; it is a sign of societal fabric breaking down.
OddOpinions5
much as I loath TFG, and i really do loath him, I sort of prefer his honestly to the Bidenesque approach, common in the dem party of wink nod transactional pitches
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