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Donald Trump dangled a brazen “deal” in front of some of the top US oil bosses last month, proposing that they give him $1bn for his White House re-election campaign and vowing that once back in office he would instantly tear up Joe Biden’s environmental regulations and prevent any new ones, according to a bombshell new report.

According to the Washington Post, the former US president made his jaw-dropping pitch, which the paper described as “remarkably blunt and transactional”, at a dinner at his Mar-a-Lago home and club.

In front of more than 20 executives, including from Chevron, Exxon and Occidental Petroleum, he promised to increase oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico, remove hurdles to drilling in the Alaskan Arctic, and reverse new rules designed to cut car pollution. He would also overturn the Biden administration’s decision in January to pause new natural gas export permits which have been denounced as “climate bombs”.

“You’ll get it on the first day,” Trump said, according to the Post, citing an unnamed dinner attendee.

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[-] snekerpimp@lemmy.world 44 points 2 years ago

I mean, this is reading like a damn Disney movie. Are we IN fern gully? Is his secret lair in a volcano surrounded by liquid hot magma?

And everyone in that meeting is a huge, stinking pile of human excrement.

[-] MagicShel@programming.dev 19 points 2 years ago

I'm really disappointed in the low quality of super villain. I was told they would have evil lairs on the moon or the ocean floor, not a shabby club in Florida. I was told they would be charismatic visionaries with grandiose ambitions, not a salesman of sneakers and NFTs who just wants to abuse women unchecked.

[-] mPony@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago

Roger Waters - Too Much Rope

When the sleigh is heavy and the timber wolves are getting bold

You look at your companions and test the water of their friendship With your toe

They significantly edge closer to the gold

Each man has his price bub, and yours was pretty low

History is short the sun is just a minor star

The poor man sells his kidneys in some colonial bazaar

Que sera sera is that your new Ferrari car

Nice, but I think I'll wait for the F50

You don't have to be a Jew to disapprove of murder

Tears burn our eyes

Muslim or Christian Mullah or Pope

Preacher or poet who was it wrote

Give any one species too much rope

And they'll fuck it up

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