What Trump promised oil CEOs as he asked them to steer $1 billion to his campaign: Donald Trump has pledged to scrap President Biden’s policies on electric vehicles and wind energy & more

What Trump promised oil CEOs as he asked them to steer $1 billion to his campaign

The corruption is really open at this point.

Given how close the polls are, if want to stop this, Americans here going to need to actively work to help elect Biden. That means checking your voter registration, talking with people you know, volunteering, and financially supporting the campaign

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What Trump promised oil CEOs as he asked them to steer $1 billion to his campaign: Donald Trump has pledged to scrap President Biden’s policies on electric vehicles and wind energy & more

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Seems on brand. Burn the world so you feel like a powerful big boy in your big boy diappies.
Well that's certainly one way of generating the money you need to pay off your lawsuits.
Let humanity burn so that you can pretend to be Mr. Monopoly a little longer
- It's also open solicitation of bribes with an explicit quid pro quo but I guess that doesn't matter any more.
Oil barons wanna burn money like they wanna burn the world. Republicans are the opposite of fiscally responsible.
Just invest in solar panels with that money instead.
I just don't get why university students put all their energy on problems long away and overseas when they don't take up activism to make their own country better
- Nobody organizes sit-ins and protests for the homeless... Because when they have nobody showed up.
  Up to 45k people die of homelessness every year in the USA. Nobody cares about them. It infuriates me.
  
  Don't actually bring up reasonable topics, people might get outraged.
  I've been trying for quite some time to understand what drives the social outrage Zeitgeist, at the moment much of it seems like TikTok.
- They do. They also do this. You can do both.
- Because people organized to make it happen.
Yeah 'cause Biden is doing such a great job, lmfao. Vote third party. I like Cornel West. He's not a pathetic little bitch for the oil companies, like the main party candidates.
- Biden has actually stopped taking oil financing for his campaign. If you are not in a swing state, it is probably a good idea though to show that there is support for further left politics.
- West, like the other 3rd party candidates is around to serve as a spoiler and make it easier for Trump to win.
  
  Well, this country isn't going to get better until we have reasonable representation, and binary is obviously not reasonable. These main candidates are atrocious. Literally both amongst the worse we've ever seen in this country. They shouldn't even be allowed to be in power. They've both committed war crimes.
- Why do you want trump to win? Do you really like Trump that much?
- You mean the Republicrats are corrupt too? I am aghast.
  
  That's a new one for me! Thanks yo. Funny. So yeah they're both totally unbearable and I'm sick of their shit.
- Astroturfing.
- So you are willing to take someone who is TOTALLY in bed with oil companies over someone who is much much less in bed with oil companies and does things like stop drilling in the arctic, fund renewables etc etc?
  I feel like that kind of argument would make total sense to a 4 year old.
- Looks like we've got some fucking perpetuators out here tonight.

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