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Trump actually won the 20 election so stop talking about it
Really? Exactly how did that happen? Every swing state had been audited multiple times. In AZ, even the Cyber Ninja fools spent months looking for bamboo ballots from China and eventually found more votes for Biden.
Bush v. Gore
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Bush v. Gore, legal case, decided on December 12, 2000, in which the Supreme Court of the United States reversed an order by the Florida Supreme Court for a selective manual recount of that state’s U.S. presidential election ballots. The 5–4 per curiam (unsigned) decision effectively awarded Florida’s 25 Electoral College votes to Republican candidate George W. Bush, thereby ensuring his victory over Democratic candidate Al Gore.
Background
On the evening of election day—November 7, 2000—a clear winner of the presidential election had yet to emerge. Print and broadcast media cited often contradictory exit-polling numbers, and the races in Oregon and New Mexico would remain too close to call for some days. Ultimately, the contest focused on Florida. Networks initially projected Gore the winner in that state but later declared that Bush had opened an insurmountable lead. Gore called Bush to concede the election, but in the early hours of the following morning it became apparent that the Florida race was much closer than Gore’s staff had originally believed. Fewer than 600 votes separated the candidates, and that margin appeared to be narrowing. At about 3:00 am Gore called a stunned Bush to retract his concession.
IMAGE -sample “butterfly ballot” from Florida, 2000
Under Florida election law, a machine recount of all votes cast was required because the margin of victory was less than 0.5 percent. In this race, the gap appeared to be roughly 0.01 percent. Both campaigns immediately dispatched teams of lawyers to Florida. Charges of conflict of interest were leveled by both sides—Bush’s brother Jeb was the governor of the state and Secretary of State Katherine Harris was cochair of Bush’s Florida campaign, while Florida Attorney General Bob Butterworth headed the Gore campaign. By November 10 the machine recount was complete, and Bush’s lead stood at 327 votes out of six million cast. As court challenges were issued over the legality of hand recounts in select counties, news stories were filled with the arcane vocabulary of the election judge. County officials tried to discern voter intent through a cloud of “hanging chads” (incompletely punched paper ballots) and “pregnant chads” (paper ballots that were dimpled, but not pierced, during the voting process), as well as “overvotes” (ballots that recorded multiple votes for the same office) and “undervotes” (ballots that recorded no vote for a given office). Also at issue was the so-called butterfly ballot design used in Palm Beach .. https://www.britannica.com/place/Palm-Beach-Florida .. county, which caused confusion among some residents who had intended to vote for Gore—leading them to inadvertently cast some 3,400 votes for an ultraconservative third-party candidate, Pat Buchanan, which amounted to about 20 percent of his total votes statewide.
A tug-of-war ensued between Harris, who initially sought to certify the state’s election results on November 14, and the Florida Supreme Court, which ruled that hand recounts of questionable ballots should proceed in four counties and that the results must be included in the state’s final count. In the month following the election, some 50 individual suits were filed concerning the various counts, recounts, and certification deadlines. On December 8, in a 4–3 decision, the Florida Supreme Court ordered immediate manual recounts of undervotes for the office of president in all counties where such recounts had not already taken place.
The Bush campaign immediately petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court for a stay of the recount order, which was granted on December 9. Treating the petition as a writ of certiorari (a formal request for review), the Court agreed to take up the case, Bush v. Gore.
Majority opinion
At oral arguments on December 11, Bush’s legal team asserted that the Florida Supreme Court had exceeded its authority by ordering the manual recount of undervotes, while Gore’s team contended that the case, having already been decided at the state level, was not a matter for consideration at the federal level. In a per curiam ruling issued the following day, the Court found (7–2) that, owing to inconsistencies in manual recounting methods and standards between Florida counties, the Florida court’s order of a manual recount amounted to a violation of the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. By a smaller majority (5–4), the Court also ruled that no new recount could take place, because none could be finished by the “safe harbor” deadline—the date, set by federal law (3 U.S.C. §5), by which states were required to resolve any disputes regarding the selection of presidential electors in order to guarantee that their final determination “shall be conclusive, and shall govern in the counting of the electoral votes as provided in the Constitution.” Although failure to meet the deadline, which fell on December 12 (six days before the meeting of the Electoral College on December 18), would not have prevented Florida’s electoral votes from being counted, the majority argued that any court order for a new, “constitutionally proper” recount would violate a provision of Florida election law that empowered state courts to grant “appropriate” relief in response to legitimate challenges to certified election results. And that provision would be violated, according to the majority, because in drafting it the Florida state legislature presumably intended that any such relief be completed by the safe-harbor deadline. (The majority also argued that the Florida Supreme Court itself had recognized this intention when, in earlier related cases, it had referred to voters’ “participating fully in the federal electoral process” and to election statutes’ being “cognizant of the federal grant of authority derived from the United States Constitution and derived from 3 U.S.C. §5.”)
Concurring opinion
In a concurring opinion joined by associate justices Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas, Chief Justice William Rehnquist agreed with the majority regarding the intentions of the Florida state legislature (“Surely when the Florida Legislature empowered the courts of the State to grant ‘appropriate’ relief, it must have meant relief that would have become final by the cutoff date of 3 U.S.C. §5.”) but also suggested that the safe-harbor provision itself imposed a strict deadline beyond which no recounts could proceed (“In Presidential elections, the contest period necessarily terminates on the date set by 3 U.S.C. §5 for concluding the State’s ‘final determination’ of election controversies.”). Rehnquist argued in addition that the recount order was invalid because it effectively created new election law in violation of Article II, Section 1 of the U.S. Constitution, which reserves that power to the state legislatures.
Dissenting opinions
The decision of the majority was heavily criticized by the minority, each one of whom wrote a dissenting opinion. All of the dissenting justices contended that the majority was wrong to prevent any remedial manual recount from taking place. In his dissent, Justice John Paul Stevens argued that the manual recount order had not violated the equal protection clause and that the majority’s reversal of the order contradicted principles of federalism and the Court’s tradition of deferring to state courts regarding the interpretation of their own states’ laws. He also disputed...
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Opinion MAGA Republicans are already doubting the 2024 election results
"Don't Let Republicans Get Away With this...
... good to see you still kicking, Matrix999 ..."
Perfect. Been sitting with this on tab, and the Tim Scott
mention in yours had it screaming, "Post me here, man!"
Donald Trump’s potential vice presidents want to be clear: They do not stand for democracy.
By Eugene Robinson
Columnist|
May 9, 2024 at 5:44 p.m. EDT
Demonstrators for and against former president Donald Trump protest outside the U.S.
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Don’t say they didn’t warn us. If Donald Trump loses again to Joe Biden in November, the attempt by MAGA Republicans to overturn the result — in essence, to negate the will of the voters — could be even worse than last time.
Trump’s denial of his 2020 defeat has had a deeply corrosive effect on our democracy, with a majority of Republicans still deluded into believing the election was stolen. The damage might be ameliorated if prominent GOP officials, who do know better, at least expressed confidence in the democratic process and pledged to accept the outcome of this year’s vote, no matter who wins.
Surely, that’s not too much to ask of men and women who owe their jobs to the same electoral system that Trump claims is hopelessly corrupt. Right?
Wrong. Witness the pathetic performance .. https://www.washingtonpost.com/elections/2024/05/08/trump-republicans-2024-election-results/?itid=lk_inline_manual_7 .. by Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) on NBC’s “Meet the Press” on Sunday. Host Kristen Welker tried six times to get Scott to say, yes or no, whether he would accept the result of the November election. Scott refused to give an answer. Instead, he served up a heaping bowl of word salad, tossed with a vinaigrette of oil and ambition.
“This is an issue that is not an issue so I’m not going to make it an issue. ... At the end of the day, the 47th president of the United States will be President Donald Trump. And I’m excited to get back to low inflation, low unemployment. ... I’m not going to answer your hypothetical question when, in fact, I believe the American people are speaking today on the results of the election.”
Scott’s evasiveness is understandable because he is auditioning to be Trump’s running mate, but it is not excusable. He knows that cases of proven voter fraud — or even formally alleged voter fraud — are vanishingly rare .. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/12/26/voting-fraud-gop-trivial/?itid=lk_inline_manual_10 . He knows that recounts and audits consistently show that votes are tallied accurately. He knows that all the conspiracy theories about the 2020 election spun by MAGA fabulists such as Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell have been proved utterly false and, in some cases, expensively defamatory. Still, with his nonanswers, the senator undermines the legitimacy of U.S. democracy.
Other Republicans hoping to be Trump’s vice-presidential choice have been equally shameless. North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum was shifty on CNN’s “State of the Union” when asked about the possibility of violence if Trump loses, declining to answer and instead saying he is “looking forward to next January when Vice President Harris certifies the election for Donald Trump.” Rep. Elise Stefanik (N.Y.) said she would have to “see if this is a legal and valid election” before voting to certify the November result.
And Rep. Byron Donalds (Fla.) went even further — all the way to 2028. He said that if he were the sitting vice president at the time of that year’s election, he would decline to certify the results “if you have state officials who are violating the election law in their states.” In other words, he would do what Vice President Mike Pence quite properly refused to do: impose Trump’s will over that of the American people.
All of this could be written off as nothing more than politicians being craven — hardly a new phenomenon — if not for the damage it does. A sobering study released last month .. https://snfagora.jhu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Hopkins-SNF-Agora-Institute-Understanding-ProDem-Conservatives-Mar-2024.pdf .. by the Stavros Niarchos Foundation SNF Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins University found that 62 percent of Republicans and 22 percent of independents believe Trump was the “legitimate” winner in 2020. Hardly any Democrats share that view.
Those “deniers” add up to about one-third of voters overall. If that much of the electorate believes a presidential election was stolen — despite multiple recounts and dozens of court cases proving it was not — we have a serious problem.
The Johns Hopkins study concludes: “A political party that has undermined its own voters’ faith in elections is a destabilizing force in a democracy — especially one in which only two parties are realistically competing. The strong viewpoints that deniers hold, and the distinctive identity that they have formed, demonstrate that reviving our democracy will require more than any given result at the ballot box, or providing accurate information to voters on how the election process works. It will require a functioning, responsible conservative party that still believes in democracy.”
No such party now exists in U.S. politics. And for that failing, Trump is only partly responsible.
No one is forcing Republicans such as Scott, Burgum, Stefanik and Donalds to pretend to believe Trump’s lies. No one is forcing them to weaken faith in our elections. Whatever happens in the days and weeks after Election Day, many leading Republicans deserve to share the blame.
Eugene Robinson writes a column on politics and culture and hosts a weekly online chat with readers. In a three-decade career at The Washington Post, Robinson has been city hall reporter, city editor, foreign correspondent in Buenos Aires and London, foreign editor, and assistant managing editor in charge of the paper’s Style section. Twitter
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/05/09/maga-republicans-deny-2024-election/
LOL, should have guessed you had eaten more than i have. We hear them, but i've never seen a plague like we
had, maybe '80s??? Ok, didn't get the year, but didn't know Australia was the place they hold their conventions:
Cicada 'super year': the familiar sound of Australian summer is louder than usual
More of the insects have emerged this year in NSW, Victoria and South Australia. One reason is rainfall
Lisa Cox
Thu 14 Jan 2021 03.30 AEDT
Last modified on Fri 29 Oct 2021 22.36 AEDT
Most of a cicada’s lifespan is spent underground, which is likely a reason the invertebrates are more abundant in some years than others. Photograph: Getty Images
The buzz call of the cicada is a familiar sound of the Australian summer and this season is what David Emery calls a “super year for our summer chorusing friends”.
A veterinary immunologist at the University of Sydney and cicada expert, Emery has been monitoring the insects for decades and, along with many residents of coastal New South Wales and beyond, has registered that the volume is more ear-splitting than usual.
In NSW, Victoria and South Australia, more cicadas have emerged this summer than in recent years.
Emery says one reason is the abundance of winter and summer rainfall Australia has received.
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“You often see a good emergence after drought and that may be due to plant regeneration and growth inspired by the rain,” Emery said. “After the fires, we see that regrowth as well.”
Australia is the cicada capital of the globe with more than 700 species .. https://theconversation.com/the-cicadas-deafening-shriek-is-the-sound-of-summer-and-humans-have-been-drawn-to-it-for-thousands-of-years-152225 , many of which are yet to be described.
Most of a cicada’s lifespan is spent underground, which Emery says is likely another reason the invertebrates are more abundant in some years than others.
“The last big emergence in the Blue Mountains, for example, was in 2017, and the previous ones were in 2013 and 2010.”
Many common Australian cicadas spend about six or seven years underground and when they emerge live for only a few weeks.
The female will lay eggs on a tree and die and the male, having fulfilled his lifecycle, will also die.
The eggs hatch and the nymphs fall and burrow into the ground and the cycle begins again.
The reason Australians can hear the call of cicadas for months is because different species emerge at different times.
The common “green grocer” cicadas are heard during October and November. From mid-December, they begin to be replaced by black princes, double drummers, red eyes and razor grinders.
Most of those will diminish by mid-February, Emery says, but a few solitary male princes might stick around until April.
“But the females will be gone, so they will be calling for nothing,” Emery said. “That’s always the sad part.”
NSW residents can use the Great Cicada Blitz website and the Facebook page Cicadarama to post pictures and recordings of cicadas and their locations, which Emery says could help scientists map their distribution and abundance, and describe new species.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/jan/14/cicada-super-year-the-familiar-sound-of-australian-summer-is-louder-than-usual
Maybe i got lucky by eating a choice species.
A beautiful story -- For Olympian Ashleigh Johnson, making a splash as a role model for Black kids is just as important as success in the pool
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Ashleigh, and her family, her mother especially, personify the America
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Her family and working to inspire others have helped buoy the national team's goalkeeper, as she heads to her third Olympic games.
Ashleigh Johnson celebrates after her team wins gold at the World Aquatics Championships on Feb. 16, 2024 in Doha, Qatar. Adam Nurkiewicz / Getty Images file
May 4, 2024, 8:00 PM GMT+10
By Curtis Bunn
Growing up in Miami, Ashleigh Johnson and her four siblings took swimming lessons as kids, primarily to ease the mind of their mother, who feared they could drown in the family pool while she was at work.
Those lessons led to falling in love with swimming, which led to joining the local Riptides swim team at nearby Cutler Ridge, which eventually led them to a unique sport for Black youths: water polo.
Johnson’s sister and three brothers all took lessons from Carroll Vaughan and thrived in the sport. But Ashleigh Johnson soared as a goalkeeper, using her spindly body, quickness and understanding of angles to become an All-American at Princeton University, where she compiled 100 victories and was the school’s all-time saves leader.
In 2016, she became the first Black athlete to make the U.S. Olympic team in water polo — and earned a gold medal. She backed it up with another gold in the Tokyo Games four years later. At 29, Johnson is widely considered the best at her position in the world.
Ashleigh Johnson was the first Black athlete to make the U.S. Olympic team in water polo, back in 2016. Mike Coppola / Getty Images
While she desperately wants to win a third gold medal in Paris this summer, Johnson said just as important to her is having an impact on young people — especially in underserved communities.“The longer that you play a sport, the less it becomes about you,” Johnson said. “I remember when I was young on this national team and just starting to find my footing, I didn’t understand why it was important for me to be here. But I understand now. As a Black woman of Caribbean descent in this sport, I definitely feel a special obligation to be a light for little Black and brown girls — and boys — who may be interested in swimming and water polo. That’s really special and is a priority for me.”
[Insert: Well said, Ashleigh Johnson. You are a real credit to the U.S.A.]
Johnson’s younger sister, Chelsea Johnson, now 28, also played water polo at Princeton. Vaughan said she could count on them to come back home to hold clinics for local kids.
Meeting and spending time with children remains one of Johnson’s favorite aspects of competing.
“It’s so cool to see how inspiring the sport can be,” Johnson said. “These kids sometimes share their experiences, their struggles, and the chances are I’ve been through something like they have been and [I’m] able to give them some words of encouragement. We’re all unique in some way, but we’re all so similar in other ways. And getting to have these experiences with the kids makes us all really strong.”
Johnson’s Jamaican mother, Donna Johnson, basks in her daughter’s achievements. But what gratifies her the most, she said, is her daughter’s personal growth on a journey in which she has often been the only Black person in the pool.
“I didn’t even know what water polo was,” Donna Johnson said. She was a home health care nurse and a single mother who didn’t feel comfortable leaving her kids at home with a sitter until they learned to swim.
“I had these horrible nightmares and daymares of them falling into the pool and them all trying to save each other, but all drowning together,” she said. Through the simple act of finding her children a place to learn to swim, water polo became so important in their lives. “And for Ashleigh,” she said, “I am very happy that playing the sport has helped her grow into someone who loves to inspire kids.”
To get to that place was not easy. Once Ashleigh Johnson and her siblings began competing outside of their area in Miami, they quickly found themselves as the only Black players on their teams. The sisters played together at Princeton, but after Chelsea’s first year, Ashleigh was off to play on a national team. It was a significant next step, but challenging.
Johnson, a goalkeeper, learned to use her spindly body and speed to her advantage.
Xia Yifang / Xinhua News Agency via Getty Images file
“I saw that she was very athletic when her mother brought all her kids to me,” Vaughan said. “Ashleigh was 8 or 9. She just got better and better. When she went to the national team in California, though, it was very tough for her.” Vaughan said the coaches “only saw negatives in her. There were times when she wanted to quit. But she hung in there and finally broke down the barriers they had put up.”Being the only Black athlete in competition was another barrier.
“At the very base of it, I really wanted to play water polo and I had a lot of fun and was really passionate about the sport,” Johnson said. But being away from her old team and family in Florida, and submerged in a swim culture foreign to her, she said, was isolating. “I was like, ‘I love doing this, but I don’t want to have to deal with that.’”
Her mother was unaware of her conflicts. “I didn’t realize she felt alone a lot of the time,” Donna Johnson said. “I raised my children to see people as people, which, in retrospect, was a very naive stand. I was never concerned about that aspect. I was more concerned about her being taken care of since I wasn’t there. But as I became more enlightened, I realized she was the only Black in most cases, which is an American condition for Black people.”
Johnson and her brothers and sister were fortified, however, by “the foundation my mother built in all of us,” she said. “She instilled in us that we are worthy and beautiful and belong. So as much as there were times when I felt isolated, I actually felt more powerful being there. I also had a realization that because I was different didn’t make me stand out in a bad way. You end up realizing you have the power to change that and to make it a welcoming space for other Black people or brown people who may come after you.”
When Johnson first started to find her footing on the national team she said she "I didn’t understand why it was important" for her, as a Black woman, to be there. "But I understand now." Adam Nurkiewicz / Getty Images file
Johnson, who has a bachelor’s degree in psychology, said she is not sure what’s next for her after the Games. However, she said, “Life is calling me. And it’s a real privilege to choose when you stop playing.” If her water polo career ends this summer, Johnson said her post-athletic life will begin as a search for her place. She eventually wants to start a family. She is considering culinary school. She may move to another country and “pursue a trade there.”
“I’ve put a lot of time into this and not a lot of time exploring other parts of myself,” she said. “I think that’s a journey that everyone needs to go on in their life. So that is exactly where I am. I want to give myself the space to just explore.”
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What Trump promised oil CEOs as he asked them to steer $1 billion to his campaign
"buying votes you say?
Donald Trump has pledged to scrap President Biden’s policies on electric vehicles and wind energy, as well as other initiatives opposed by the fossil fuel industry.
By Josh Dawsey and Maxine Joselow
Updated May 9, 2024 at 1:54 p.m. EDT|Published May 9, 2024 at 6:00 a.m. EDT
Former president Donald Trump shakes hands with North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum (R),
who is leading the Trump campaign’s development of its energy policy, at a rally
in Laconia, N.H., on Jan. 22. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post)
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As Donald Trump sat with some of the country’s top oil executives at his Mar-a-Lago Club last month, one executive complained about how they continued to face burdensome environmental regulations despite spending $400 million to lobby the Biden administration in the last year.
Trump’s response stunned several of the executives in the room overlooking the ocean: You all are wealthy enough, he said, that you should raise $1 billion to return me to the White House. At the dinner, he vowed to immediately reverse dozens of President Biden .. https://www.washingtonpost.com/elections/candidates/joe-biden-2024/?itid=lk_inline_manual_4 ’s environmental rules and policies and stop new ones from being enacted, according to people with knowledge of the meeting, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe a private conversation.
Giving $1 billion would be a “deal,” Trump said, because of the taxation and regulation they would avoid thanks to him, according to the people.
Trump’s remarkably blunt and transactional pitch reveals how the former president is targeting the oil industry to finance his reelection bid. At the same time, he has turned to the industry to help shape his environmental agenda for a second term, including the rollbacks of some of Biden’s signature achievements on clean energy and electric vehicles.
The contrast between the two candidates on climate policy could not be more stark. Biden has called global warming an “existential threat,” and over the last three years, his administration has finalized more than 100 new environmental regulations .. https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2021/climate-environment/biden-climate-environment-actions/?itid=lk_inline_manual_9 .. aimed at cutting air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions, restricting toxic chemicals, and conserving public lands and waters. In comparison, Trump has called climate change a “hoax,” and his administration weakened or wiped out more than 125 environmental rules .. https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/climate-environment/trump-climate-environment-protections/?itid=lk_inline_manual_5&itid=lk_inline_manual_9 .. and policies over four years.
In recent months, the Biden administration has raced to overturn Trump’s environmental actions and issue new ones before the November election. So far, Biden officials have overturned 27 Trump actions affecting the fossil fuel industry and completed at least 24 new actions affecting the sector, according to a Washington Post analysis .. https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2021/climate-environment/biden-climate-environment-actions/?itid=lk_inline_manual_10 . The Interior Department, for instance, recently blocked future oil drilling across 13 million acres of the Alaskan Arctic .. https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2024/04/19/drilling-alaska-national-petroleum-reserve/?itid=lk_inline_manual_10 .
Despite the oil industry’s complaints about Biden’s policies, the United States is now producing more oil than any country ever has .. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/12/31/us-oil-production-has-hit-record-under-biden-he-hardly-mentions-it/?itid=lk_inline_manual_13 , pumping nearly 13 million barrels per day on average last year. ExxonMobil and Chevron, the largest U.S. energy companies, reported their biggest annual profits .. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/02/business/oil-gas-companies-profits.html .. in a decade last year.
Yet oil giants will see an even greater windfall — helped by new offshore drilling, speedier permits and other relaxed regulations — in a second Trump administration, the former president told the executives over the dinner of chopped steak at Mar-a-Lago.
Trump vowed at the dinner to immediately end the Biden administration’s freeze on permits for new liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports .. https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2024/01/26/biden-lng-export-projects-climate/?itid=lk_inline_manual_15 — a top priority for the executives, according to three people present. “You’ll get it on the first day,” Trump said, according to the recollection of an attendee.
The roughly two dozen executives invited included Mike Sabel, the CEO and founder of Venture Global, and Jack Fusco, the CEO of Cheniere Energy, whose proposed projects would directly benefit from lifting the pause on new LNG exports. Other attendees came from companies including Chevron, Continental Resources, Exxon and Occidental Petroleum, according to an attendance list obtained by The Post.
Oil well pump jacks operated by Chevron in San Ardo, Calif. (David Paul Morris/Bloomberg
News)
Trump told the executives that he would start auctioning off more leases for oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico, a priority that several of the executives raised. He railed against wind power, as The Post previously reported .. https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2024/04/17/trump-wind-power-oil-executives/?itid=lk_inline_manual_18 . And he said he would reverse the restrictions on drilling in the Alaskan Arctic.
“You’ve been waiting on a permit for five years; you’ll get it on Day 1,” Trump told the executives, according to the recollection of the attendee.
At the dinner, Trump also promised that he would scrap Biden’s “mandate” on electric vehicles — mischaracterizing ambitious rules .. https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2024/03/20/biden-car-emissions-rules/?itid=lk_inline_manual_22 .. that the Environmental Protection Agency recently finalized .. https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2024/03/20/biden-car-emissions-rules/?itid=lk_inline_manual_22 , according to people who attended. The rules require automakers to reduce emissions from car tailpipes, but they don’t mandate a particular technology such as EVs. Trump called them “ridiculous” in the meeting with donors.
The fossil fuel industry has aggressively lobbied against the EPA’s tailpipe rules, which could eat into demand for its petroleum products. The American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers, an industry trade group, has launched a seven-figure campaign .. https://www.afpm.org/newsroom/news/afpm-launches-seven-figure-issue-campaign-spotlighting-gas-car-ban-policies-across .. against what it calls a de facto “gas car ban.” The campaign includes ads in battleground states warning that the rule will restrict consumer choice.
“Clearly, if you are producing gasoline and diesel, you want to make sure that there’s enough market there,” said Stephen Brown, an energy consultant and a former lobbyist for Tesoro, an oil refining company. “I don’t know that the oil industry would walk in united with a set of asks for the Trump administration, but I think it’s important for this issue to get raised.”
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Trump dominated Florida GOP primary, but didn’t beat his 2020 numbers
Although the repeal of the EPA rule would benefit the fossil fuel industry, it would probably anger the auto industry, which has invested billions of dollars in the transition away from gasoline-powered cars. Many automakers are under increasing pressure to sell more EVs in Europe, which has tightened its own tailpipe emissions rules, and they are eager to avoid a patchwork of regulations around the globe.
“Automakers need some degree of regulatory certainty from government,” said John Bozzella, president and CEO of the Alliance for Automotive Innovation, which represents Ford, General Motors, Stellantis, Toyota and other car companies.
“What has emerged instead is a wholesale repeal… and then reinstatement… and then repeal again of regulations every four or eight years,” Bozzella said in an email.
Insert: So Mr. Bozzella, How many millions are you people putting into ad campaigns to get Biden reelected?
Your desire for consistency from government is fair. Moves to help gain a cleaner environment will
continue in Europe. obviously it follows you should be pouring dollars into ads to help Biden.
Biden's cause is the only decent way forward, Europe knows it. You know it.
So get the campaign going. Do it.
Biden’s EV policies have also sparked opposition in rural, Republican-led states such as North Dakota, where there are far more oil pump jacks than charging stations. A key figure leading the Trump campaign’s development of its energy policy is North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum .. https://www.washingtonpost.com/elections/candidates/doug-burgum-2024/?itid=lk_inline_manual_33 .. (R), who has been talking extensively to oil donors and CEOs.
[ It wasn't a "certain amount of money", it was a certain amount of donors. He [Burgum] needed 40k individual donors and he bought them with $19 payola.
P - They were not votes per se, but he needed a specific number of donations that signified enough support to get a place on the stage. Whether it violated campaign finance rules is uncertain, as new schemes are being hatched as fast a rules are being written.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/doug-burgum-president-campaign-gift-cards-20-donations-legal-experts/
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=174375170 ]
At a fundraiser on Saturday in Palm Beach, Fla., Burgum told donors that Trump would halt Biden’s “attack” on fossil fuels, according to a recording of his remarks obtained by The Post.
“What would be the No. 1 thing that President Trump could do on Day 1? It’s stop the hostile attack against all American energy, and I mean all,” Burgum said. “Whether it’s baseload electricity, whether it’s oil, whether it’s gas, whether it’s ethanol, there is an attack on liquid fuels.”
Burgum also criticized the Biden administration’s policies on gas stoves and vehicles with internal combustion engines, claiming that they would prevent consumers from buying both technologies. While the Energy Department recently set new efficiency standards .. https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2024/01/29/gas-stoves-biden-energy-climate/?itid=lk_inline_manual_38 .. for gas stoves, they would not affect the stoves in people’s kitchens or those currently on the market.
“They’ve got some liberal idea about what products we need,” Burgum said. “You all need EV cars. You don’t need internal combustion. We’ll decide what kind of car you’re going to drive, and we’re going to regulate the other ones out of business. I mean, it’s just in every industry, not just in cars, not just in energy. They’re telling people what stoves you can buy. This is not America.”
[That's it Burgum. Leave out the reasons why. Leave out the important reason why
some buying options for the oil and gas industry are being eased out. The reason
of course is because Europe and other countries care about leaving a cleaner
and healthier world for your children's children. And their children. Think of
your selfish self, Mr. Burgum. Sadly, that is your America.]
Cheniere Energy President and CEO Jack Fusco speaks during the CERAWeek energy
conference in Houston on March 18. (Mark Felix/AFP/Getty Images)
The Biden campaign initially declined to comment for this article. After this piece was published, however, Biden campaign spokesman Ammar Moussa said in a statement that “Donald Trump is selling out working families to Big Oil for campaign checks. It’s that simple.”
“It doesn’t matter to Trump that oil and gas companies charge working families and middle-class Americans whatever they want while raking in record profits — if Donald can cash a check, he’ll do what they say,” Moussa added.
Burgum — a possible contender to lead the Energy Department in a second Trump term — has pushed harder to address climate change than many other Republicans. He set a goal in 2021 for North Dakota — the third-largest oil-producing state .. https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/oil-and-petroleum-products/where-our-oil-comes-from.php — to become carbon-neutral by 2030. He has stressed, however, that the goal won’t be achieved via government mandates or the elimination of fossil fuels, and he has cultivated deep support among oil donors.
Despite Trump’s huge fundraising ask, oil donors and their allies have yet to donate hundreds of millions to his campaign. They have contributed more than $6.4 million to Trump’s joint fundraising committee in the first three months of this year, according to an analysis by the advocacy group Climate Power. Oil billionaire Harold Hamm and others are scheduling a fundraiser for Trump later this year, advisers said, where they expect large checks to flow to his bid to return to office.
One person involved in the industry said many oil executives wanted Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis or another Republican to challenge Biden. But now that Trump is the nominee, this person said, they are going to embrace his policies and give.
Dan Eberhart, chief executive of the oil-field services company Canary and a Trump donor, said the Republican onslaught of donations was not surprising.
“Biden constantly throws a wet blanket to the oil and gas industry,” Eberhart said. “Trump’s ‘drill baby drill’ philosophy aligns much better with the oil patch than Biden’s green-energy approach. It’s a no-brainer.”
Alex Witt, a senior adviser for oil and gas with Climate Power, said Trump’s promise is he will do whatever the oil industry wants if they support him. With Trump, Witt said, “everything has a price.”
“They got a great return on their investment during Trump’s first term, and Trump is making it crystal clear that they’re in for an even bigger payout if he’s reelected,” she said.
John Muyskens contributed to this report.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/05/09/trump-oil-industry-campaign-money/
Could you please now let me know if you are able to read WaPo articles
linked into the above. Thinking likely no too, would like to know for sure.
West Point Teaches Army Recruits About Cross Dressing & Gender Norms
That's what you stay up all night thinking about instead of this??? You're a very creepy and disturbed, sick woman.
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