Thank you, Charles Pierce for such a direct title.
Donald Trump Has Put a Literal Price on the Future of the Planet
He had a bunch of oil executives over to his place and told them not to get too stressed about Biden’s climate policies.
By Charles P. Pierce
PUBLISHED: MAY 10, 2024 10:52 AM EDT
One billion dollars.
For that bargain price, El Caudillo del Mar-a-Lago will sell you this planet and the lives of everyone living on it now, as well as the lives of every generation to come, for as long as there are generations to come…
Basically, the former president* proposed a gentler form of the proposition “Nice planet you have here. Be a shame if anything happened to it.” The difference is that the people he was talking to were making the same offer to the rest of us.
Trump vowed at the dinner to immediately end the Biden administration’s freeze on permits for new liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports—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. 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. At the dinner, Trump also promised that he would scrap Biden’s “mandate” on electric vehicles—mischaracterizing ambitious rules that the Environmental Protection Agency recently finalized, according to people who attended. The rules require automakers to reduce emissions from car tailpipes, but they don’t mandate a particular technology such as EVs. Trump called the rules “ridiculous” in the meeting with donors.
This is not climate denialism. This is deliberate destruction for profit. As we have learned over the past several years, the executives in the extraction industry knew the nature of the damage, and the extent of it, long before the rest of us did, and they lied like tobacco experts about what they knew. That probably is still the case, despite the attention the climate crisis has drawn. They simply don’t care, and they’ve cultivated politicians who either don’t care or are too stupid to know why they should, as the small towns back home get blown across state lines by what appears to be an endless chain of tornadoes. With his predator’s instinct for quid pro quo, the former president* was simply honest enough to name his price.
The money isn’t for the his campaign. It’s for his pockets, because he’s taking every cent that comes into the RNC.
And, yet, this isn’t leading the news everyday.
Don’t come for Congresswoman Crockett unless she sends for you 😒😒😒
👀 At tonight’s House Oversight hearing, Marjorie Taylor Greene made a derogatory comment about Jasmine Crockett and “false eyelashes.” Then the committee erupted. AOC trashed MTG, demanded an apology (MTG refused); then demands for clarifications on whether personal attacks are now allowed; a clash on motions and motions to table them. Comer forced a vote to table AOC’s motion, which succeeded.
Then Rep. Crockett asked Comer: “I’m just curious, just to better understand your ruling: If someone on this committee then starts talking about somebody’s bleach blonde bad built butch body, that would not be engaging in personalities, correct?”
A befuddled Comer replied: “What now?”
https://t.co/o90T36DkBV
(https://x.com/sahilkapur/status/1791289263411101730?t=dmcrIZpiXTpxTK1N–d3Uw&s=03)
Christopher Bouzy (spoutible.com/cbouzy) (@cbouzy) posted at 10:32 PM on Thu, May 16, 2024:
Rep. Crockett’s experience today mirrors the struggle of Black women in the workplace. MTG’s insult, followed by Anna Luna’s “out of control” accusation, highlights a toxic double standard. This pattern of insulting and undermining Black women must end.
(https://x.com/cbouzy/status/1791310917893824725?s=02)
John Harwood (@JohnJHarwood) posted at 8:10 PM on Thu, May 16, 2024:
the Alitos and the Thomases are bitter right-wing fanatics who have no business sitting on any case involving Trump and Jan 6
a shocking level of ethical corruption https://t.co/Scyn9jiHH5
(https://x.com/JohnJHarwood/status/1791275180150407612?s=02)
colorfullstory (@colorfullstory) posted at 6:46 AM on Fri, May 17, 2024:
What @JasmineForUS @RepJasmine experienced yesterday was abysmal. Marjorie Taylor Greene weaponized her whiteness insulting Crockett and then the Congressional leaders tried to make it seem like Jasmine was the aggressor letting the mediocre mangy mastiff play victim. https://t.co/NCRywKKLDi
(https://x.com/colorfullstory/status/1791435008390889513?t=iG735CF4n50CGuZO3U3pVw&s=03)
chris evans (@notcapnamerica) posted at 9:28 PM on Thu, May 16, 2024:
JUST NOW: Marjorie Taylor Greene made a derogatory comment about Rep. Jasmine Crockett and “false eyelashes” during a House committee hearing.
Personal attacks against other members isn’t allowed, so AOC requested a motion and asked for an apology which was blocked.
Rep. Crockett responded with:
“I’m just curious, just to better understand your ruling: If someone on this committee then starts talking about somebody’s bleach blonde bad built butch body, that would not be engaging in personalities, correct?”
https://t.co/EbRjqOP5km
(https://x.com/notcapnamerica/status/1791294649425871048?t=pon35jTemVdlQbaW1hI1sQ&s=03)
Philip Gourevitch (@PGourevitch) posted at 7:09 PM on Thu, May 16, 2024:
It’s nuts that it has taken three and a half years for Alito’s insurrectionist Jolly Roger to be reported — especially since the article makes it clear that the neighbors who photographed it consider him a blight not just on their cul de sac but on the republic.
(https://x.com/PGourevitch/status/1791259636684775456?t=JQAnuW9H90gEnZmJ_9FA7A&s=03)
Blue Blooded Dem-No Time 4 Stupidity ✊🏾👊🏾✊🏾 (@blewis823) posted at 1:53 AM on Fri, May 17, 2024:
“bleach blonde, bad-built, butch body.”
This quote just healed my soul, made me complete and whole. Rep. Jasmine Felicia Crockett, I want to nominate you for a Congressional Medal of Honor. Is that a thing?🥰🙌🏾 https://t.co/OeMaZ4ZtLc
(https://x.com/blewis823/status/1791361507759939703?t=mjEFMDwXgqdwjGnUSD0YpA&s=03)
UH HUH
UH HUH
colorfullstory (@colorfullstory) posted at 5:06 AM on Fri, May 17, 2024:
It’s cool when they do it it’s a problem when we do it
When Marjorie Taylor Greene went against Congressional rules & insulted Jasmine Crockett unprovoked it was all good but when @JasForUS clapped back at miconazole nitrate the rules all of a sudden needed to be enforced https://t.co/Wtl86P1fu0
(https://x.com/colorfullstory/status/1791409994019086396?t=QHyLGUKsn-IR5Ye7Z3Ofjg&s=03)
Lindy Li (@lindyli) posted at 0:35 AM on Fri, May 17, 2024:
Why did it take 3.5 YEARS to expose Alito for flying a pro-MAGA inverted American flag?
Why did it take 8 YRS to expose the collusion between Maggie Haberman & Michael Cohen/Trump?
Why did it take DECADES to expose Clarence Thomas as a bribe-taking hack?
Media needs to wake up
(https://x.com/lindyli/status/1791341853335494888?t=XPrQKW48i43xtwJf6r-5FA&s=03)
The only part about this tweet that I somewhat disagree with is the Haberman part. In real time, folks all across social media were calling her azz out. We could see it in real time, and she had numerous MSM folks trying to gaslight us that we didn’t understand today’s journalism. Yeah, we saw that shyt for what it was- she was a phucking Orange Menace Stenographer.
The other two…..the Alito thing is ridiculous. NOBODY knew and could report on it in real time?
But, it’s the Thomas part. There are people assigned to the Supreme Court – as their phucking job. You’re telling me that they didn’t know ANY of the shyt ProPublica exposed?
I don’t believe it. In the least. That phucking ‘ access journalism’
Good Morning Everyone 😊😊😊