Pay a billion in tax payers money to get nothing and stop progress... the art of the deal
If nothing else, we all need to learn that ignorant and stupid people are fucking dangerous and should be addressed as such
Are you there yet, Americans?
Are you there yet, Americans?
30% of us will never be there, and it's because they seek confirmation of their initial bias from chosen media outlets that only exist to keep Republicans in power. Fox News, OANN, Newsmax, and now soon to be CNN, CBS, etc... they all exist to protect the ~~oligarchs~~ Republicans power. Lucky for them 30% is all you need to stay in power forever apparently...
It's only going to get worse.
It’s only going to get worse.
Correct. That's why the best time to act was a few years ago and the second best time is fucking now.
Americans keep clinging to their terrible status quo seemingly not understanding they will eventually lose that as well as the Fascist regime of the Orange pedophile continues
Right, but that 30% of people that will never change are stopping us via their electoral advantage. The only other option is violence.
Since apathy has been the ruling force of the American people for the last 25 years, yes maybe violence is the only option left.
You have allowed the wound to rot and fester, maybe the only choice left is amputation
The Trump administration is considering a new strategy for throttling the country’s offshore wind industry, after federal judges blocked its five previous attempts to stop wind farms under construction off the East Coast.
Senior administration officials are drafting settlement agreements that would pay nearly $1 billion to TotalEnergies, the French energy company behind two wind farms off New York State and North Carolina, according to documents reviewed by The New York Times, including copies of the agreements.
Under the terms of the proposed settlements, the Interior Department would cancel the leases in federal waters for the two projects, known as Attentive Energy and Carolina Long Bay, the documents show. The Justice Department would then pay more than $928 million to TotalEnergies, reimbursing the company for its winning bids in lease sales during the Biden administration.
In exchange, TotalEnergies would abandon its plans to begin building the wind farms. It would also commit to investing in natural gas infrastructure in Texas, as the Trump administration prioritizes the production of fossil fuels over renewables like wind and solar power.
This is one where I had to click through to the article solely because the headline was too stupid to make sense. We are paying $1 billion of taxpayer dollars in order to undo green energy that was already in process? What reason could there possibly be for not only making our energy policy worse, but paying through the nose to do it?
Mr. Trump has disparaged offshore wind power since 2012, when he tried unsuccessfully to stop a wind farm visible from one of his golf courses in Scotland. He has often called the projects ugly and inefficient, and he has claimed without evidence that they are “driving whales crazy.”
Oh, right. We are a country whose every action must curry approval from a narcissistic sociopath with the prefrontal cortex of a 2-year-old.
Jesus fucking christ. This man is still so salty that they put wind turbines next to one of his golf courses, like a decade ago that he has his administration actively pursuing this shit. He is such a childish petty little bitch.
In the midst of an energy crisis
All because a senile pedophile thinks they cause cancer.
He claims they do, and while I'm certain he's capable of believing such idiocy, I think it's merely the lie he finds more useful than "they kill birds" and "they look ugly" (they don't, and they don't)
You can’t fix stupid.
We can. We need to get rid of capitalism.
Fucking geniuses, i swear.
This was one of the first original executive orders at the beginning of last year. Is this their whole game? Keep circling stupid idiotic ideas annually as if they are new, original, or make any sense. Drain the swamp.
What a bunch of useless dingii.
The first version of it was that they tried saying there was a super-secret national concern that they couldn't tell anybody about which meant that they had to stop already-approved wind farms. Buying off the companies that paid for permission ton install turbines is their second approach.
$1 billion
I'm not the only one who always misreads it when it's printed this way, right? I always read it as "one dollar billion" and have to go back to read it again when my brain freaks out. It's like some kind of garden path.
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