This fucker, and all of his ilk, deserve a lead lunch.
Lead adds weight. These guys all need to lose around 11 pounds… for the health of everyone else.
While China is bragging about building a ridiculous amount of solar panels to fuel their energy needs.
While America is siphoning power from cities to fuel data centers.
We are so fucked.
Translation - “Because the President is a deranged lunatic and I’m a cowardly sycophant, we are going to cripple the US by clinging to outdated technology while the rest of the world continues to advance.”
“And I’m being paid oodles of ‘lobbying’ money too.”
No lobbying is necessary, since Chris Wright—like everyone else in Trump’s cabinet—is simply abusing his position to enrich himself directly: He made his fortune in the shale gas industry. He founded Pinnacle Technologies in 1992, later led Stroud Energy, and in 2011 founded Liberty Energy, which was valued at $2.8 billion in 2023. As CEO of Liberty Energy, he earned $5.6 million that year.
Wright himself is a billionaire and, in his position, represents only his own interests. The entire U.S. regime is organized this way—it has as little to do with a democratic government as the oligarchy in Russia does.
However, if you’re referring to the orange mafia boss: His decisions, too, are obviously not based on lobbying, but simply on outright corruption.
Nice data. Why not both though?
I’m curious if there’s a single person that hasn’t enriched themselves or used their power for personal/selfish reasons.
They have burned trust, friendship, alliances, now the only thing left to burn is oil and their own country.
It’s not the president behind this, he does what people pay him (under the table,) to do.
In 1992, Wright founded Pinnacle Technologies, a company involved in commercial shale gas production through fracking and served as its CEO until 2006. He was also chairman of Stroud Energy,[13] another company involved in the production of shale gas, before he sold the company in 2006.[14] In 2011, he founded Liberty Energy, then known as Liberty Oilfield Services.[15] As of February 2023, the company was valued at $2.8 billion, according to The Wall Street Journal.[16] As the CEO of Liberty Energy, Wright earned $5.6 million in 2023.[11]
In 2019 Wright drank fracking fluid to demonstrate that it was not dangerous,[17][18] and Liberty Energy promoted its “greener selections” for chemical additives.[19] In a video posted to LinkedIn in January 2023, he said, “There is no climate crisis and we’re not in the midst of an energy transition either”.[20] He claimed that the climate movement around the world was “collapsing under its own weight”.[12] He also said that the term “carbon pollution” is misleading.[21]
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What about the subsidies for coal and oil, though?
No, not like that, silly!
People like this should be hunted for sport, just sayin
Nothing at all is stopping you. Be the Luigi you want to see in the world.
That’d be hard to do. Not because of the hunting part, but the “for sport” part. Because it would always have an underlying “for safety” purpose.
No guns or piercing weapons. Axe handles and hockey sticks. No blows to the head - dont want to deaden the pain.
Ha ha ha, I like the way you think.
Wow, the billionaires seem completely convinced that U.S. citizens will go along with anything… well, hmmm… who’s going to argue with them… it’s true, after all, that they do…
I can’t understand how the US people won’t riot over this. This complacency is not what won them their independence 250 years ago.
That is rich. First of all, the people rising up to take control is not what happened during the American revolution. What happened was a bunch of rich businesses owners using propaganda and terrorism to create a campaign of violence that lead to them taking control of the colonies.
Second, the great depression in the US lasted a decade. Many people starved to death and the average family income plummeted by 40%. Guess what, no revolution. Enlistment records show that even by WWII 50% of American males were turned away for malnourishment.
Neither do I—especially since this ridiculous decision is by no means the only thing that should have triggered mass civil resistance.
I mean, aside from all the outrageous, completely blatant corruption, it’s just as obvious, for example, that state power is being used to cram hundreds of thousands of people into concentration camps and even to protect a pedophile ring of the super-rich. These are just two more examples among countless others.
Well, unfortunately, that’s just the way it is: even the most horrific crimes are apparently not enough to mobilize the American people. And so the most unscrupulous among Americans get their way.
Unfortunately, this affects the entire world in one way or another; but the world can only watch in disbelief and wonder how a people can allow themselves to be exploited to such an extent. Other countries can do little about it except turn away in disgust, because the U.S. cannot be defeated militarily, especially since the monsters who lead it would stop at nothing.
So it is entirely up to the American people to hold their criminal regime accountable.
Unfortunately, I have now given up all hope that U.S. citizens will rise up. Since that hasn’t happened yet, despite all the outrageous crimes of the regime, I don’t see what else would have to happen for U.S. citizens to get it together and finally take action.
This country has obviously been an oligarchy for so long that the people have given up and no longer defend themselves, even though their overlords have completely abandoned any pretense by now.
The us can be defeated in a war if the us was the aggressor
Whenever I hear comments suggesting that congressional bipartisanship is important and you gotta reach across the aisle or whatever it drives me insane. I want to smack my phone on their heads whenever I have to see reminders like this demonstrate so well how wrong those fuckers are. Why bother negotiating with fascists when they’ll just use taxpayer money however they please? They should block all legislation as much as possible, refuse to appoint anyone, and drive the government into shutdown. Spend that free time living at ICE facilities so they can’t violate rights all day. Hell, start doing it at federal prisons and the military too. Start hanging out at the White House too any maybe they won’t destroy parts of it before we can do anything about it.
Yeah, I agree with on this. Bipartisanship is dead because of the immaturity of the far right
You still think the democrats are something other than controlled opposition. I finally lost all hope in them in 2024, and you should too. Without changing our leadership in the party, there is no hope.
Mandami is great, but where are the white populists? Why are there none?
Look at those dead fucking eyes
Are they going to end subsidies for Tesla and SpaceX?
Hmm depends, is the owner a friend?
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You know, to pay for lawsuits and ballrooms.
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