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With the White House and Senate under Democratic control I'm not sure what their plan is. The only thing they have control over is the dept ceiling and Dark Brandon has already signaled they will be pushing back hard on any negotiations.
"As American Democracy Takes It's Final Spins Around The Drain, Admiral McCarthy Begins Burning The Boat" >

He "put the cannibals in charge of human resources" as an old friend used to say. >

Does kinda change the term “resources” if cannibals are in charge. >

You rang? >

Yes is McCarthy on your menu or is the flesh too spoiled? >

"Drain the Swamp!", they say.
They want it drained so they can drill for oil and gas. >

You can’t kill a system while it’s functioning after all >

BP and Exxon: lmao wanna bet? >

It should be a conflict of interest and illegal to oversee any industry that you have taken campaign contributions from. >


It should be a conflict of interest and illegal to oversee any industry that you have taken campaign contributions from.

Yeah, but then what’s the point of bribing— I mean “lobbying” and financing the campaigns of politicians? >

USA Congress: where return on investments are many thousands of a percent. >

it's a return only hedge fund magnates could dream of! >

Republicans are bad for humanity. Climate change is gonna fuck us all. The final straw was Jan 6th. This makes it yet clearer. Never vote for republicans if you want to have a shot at the looming crisis >


A leading government accountability watchdog on Tuesday called out leaders of the Republican-controlled U.S. House of Representatives while revealing that the 21 GOP members appointed by Speaker Kevin McCarthy to the Natural Resources Committee took a combined $3.8 million in campaign contributions from Big Oil.
Oil and gas industry contributions to the 21 right-wing lawmakers range from more than $850,000 for Rep. Garret Graves of Louisiana—the nation's third-biggest fossil gas producer and a top-10 oil-producing state—to $18,800 for Rep. Mike Collins of Georgia, according to Accountable.US.
"The new MAGA-controlled House Natural Resources Committee aligns much closer with violent anti-public land extremists like the Bundys than they do with most Americans," the group said in a statement...
Of the Republicans on the committee, five outright oppose federal public lands, most have demonstrated support for election denial, and all have supported policies to expand industry-friendly federal leasing to Big Oil and other extractive sectors. While nearly all of the members have received donations from oil and gas companies, several have personal financial conflicts of interest in the form of either spousal employment or stock holdings.
"Big Oil's investment is already paying off," said Jordan Schreiber... "McCarthy and his MAGA allies wasted no time delivering results for their wealthy industry donors, placing nine of the most extreme anti-conservation members... Instead of holding Big Oil executives accountable for price gouging consumers at the pump, the committee will be dominated by the interests of extractive industries, enabling them to push bills that stymie cost controls, and clear the way for multibillion dollar corporations to exploit the American people's land for private gain," Schreiber added.  
In addition to highlighting the money that the lawmakers have taken from the fossil fuel industry, the new report notes relevant actions and remarks, from Graves describing President Joe Biden’s climate plan as "ushering in a Soviet-style state" to Rep. Harriet Hageman of Wyoming comparing conservation efforts to dictators starving and killing people, claiming that "it's about controlling people through controlling the food supply." >

Government accountability watchdogs may as well retire at this point.  Their work is less likely to bear fruit than SETI. >

Imagine getting the opportunity to run 1 of the most important elements of our government, and the only thing you care about every day is how to make more money for yourself by screwing over all of rhe citizens of your country. If you want tiches, become a businessman. Republicans today have absolutely zero interest in doing what is good for America. >

Yeah, we can call them out for this garbage.  But will they listen?  Obviously not. >

This is not surprising at all.  Thankfully, the Senate and Biden will just toss out all their BS, and we'll just waste a couple years. >

Wasting time is sole purpose of this, they've been wasting time on climate change mitigation  for 35+ years now ... >

Hell yeah we're heading toward a climate cliff, let's slam the fuckin accelerator, Republicans!  Let's get our donors lots of money that they can use to build the bigliest bunkers this side of the Rio Grande.  Yee fuckin haw! >

America is one of the most corrupt places on earth. What do people expect here? >

Not so much, there are much more corrupt countries, ours just happens to be on the world stage bc of our “world police status” >

America has legalized bribery. The entire government is either on the take or for sale. I don't know how it can get much worse than that. >

The other thing to consider is our freedom of press vs other countries press laws. >

But our press is all corporate owned so you have this melding of the government and the corporations into essentially one entity that lords over the people. I'm almost positive there's a term for that type of government. >

It's sad you can buy destruction of the climate for some short term $$ in one's pockets. >

Our system is so broken. I fear it’s too late to get it back on track. >

"Democracy"... How can it be called that when all these backroom dealings that funnel money into politicians and corporate pockets take place in the shadows? Voting sure seems like a charade. >

This is just getting downright alarming! >

it won't be long before they pass a law the we just have to send a monthly check to an oil company. >

You don't? >

No, i usually pay them indirectly >

This article would be vastly improved if they also showed petrol industry contributions to Resources members last Congress >

This is nothing new. ExxonMobil R&D mud phuds have been sitting on those boards/panels for decades. The irony is that they have some heavy hitting scientists, geologists, and chemists. They just play for the wrong team. >

"Key Environmental Panel" with no power to do anything, because Republicans only have the House. >

States that don't take steps to address global warming should be denied disaster recovery funds.