Friday, May 10, 2024 12:06:03 PM
The Energy Absurdity of the Week: Media Suddenly Discovers Politicians Make Promises for Campaign Donations
But only when Trump does it.
David Blackmon
May 09, 2024
The news today is filled with reports by the legacy media outlets that form the propaganda wing of the Democrat party expressing shock and surprise that a presidential contender made some promises to business executives as he asked them for big contributions to his campaign.
Why, the nerve! That’s never happened, has it? Apparently, media outlets ranging from the Washington Post to Politico to Reuters to the New York Times to the Guardian to the Atlantic had never heard of such a thing happening until it involved a dinner for oil and gas executives hosted by - you guessed it - Donald J. Trump.
You don’t have to believe me: Just go out to Google and do a search on “Trump and oil executives,” and see what comes up.
Here’s what I found:
I especially love the headline from Politico: “A little bold and gross: Oil industry writes executive orders for Trump to sign.”
Hey, you never saw that publication complaining about the NRDC, Sierra Club or PETA writing executive orders for Joe Biden to sign. You sure as hell don’t see any of those propaganda outlets bitching when the Center For Biological Diversity dictates endangered species listings to the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, or when EV makers and wind and solar developers literally wrote entire sections in the Inflation Reduction Act that now plow billions of dollars of subsidies back into their own pockets.
Truly, the sort of rampant crony capitalism running out-of-control in Washington right now is fantastic to the media so long as Democrats are in charge.
But let Trump promise to take action to reverse some of Biden’s climate alarm policy madness while soliciting donations, and you’d think the damn world has come to an end.
One of my favorite excerpts from the WaPo story comes in the first 2 paragraphs:
Former president Donald Trump repeatedly ranted about wind power during a fundraising dinner with oil and gas industry executives last week, claiming that the renewable-energy source is unreliable, unattractive and bad for the environment.
“I hate wind,” Trump told the executives over a meal of chopped steak at his Mar-a-Lago Club and resort in Florida, according to a person with knowledge of the meeting, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe a private conversation.
[End]
Wooo-hooo! Who do I send the check to? I’m happy to pay for truth-telling like this, and so should every one of those present at that Mar-a-Lago event.
Meanwhile, the writers at the far-left Guardian seem to be having a case of the vapors here:
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”.
[End]
I mean, this is just the same kind of stuff Trump did in his first term. Were these clowns just not paying attention?
And that last sentence about Biden’s ‘pause’ in LNG export permits: Are we really to believe these fake journalists aren’t aware that order was made purely as a sop to Biden’s own campaign funders in the climate alarm lobby?
Like it or not, this is how American politics work: Individuals, NGOs, unions, companies and entire industries tend to donate money to politicians who promise to take policy actions that are best for their own interests.
One of the big media complaints about Trump is that he tends to be so direct and blunt about it, or as multiple stories complain, he takes a “transactional approach” to politics. Well hell, all that means is he’s being unusually honest about what everyone knows is going on here.
What these propagandists still don’t get after all these years of covering Trump is that his direct and blunt approach to politics is one of the main reasons why he won in 2016, probably won in 2020, and is increasingly likely to win again this year. The fact that his behavior is “unusual” for a political figure is actually one of his main assets.
Back in 2016, an unusually high percentage of oil executives supported Hillary Clinton instead of Trump. If they make that same mistake in judgment again this time around, well, they will richly deserve what they get from a second Biden term.
That is all.
https://blackmon.substack.com/p/the-energy-absurdity-of-the-week-a36?publication_id=712558&post_id=144477152&isFreemail=false&r=rd9j8&triedRedirect=true
But only when Trump does it.
David Blackmon
May 09, 2024
The news today is filled with reports by the legacy media outlets that form the propaganda wing of the Democrat party expressing shock and surprise that a presidential contender made some promises to business executives as he asked them for big contributions to his campaign.
Why, the nerve! That’s never happened, has it? Apparently, media outlets ranging from the Washington Post to Politico to Reuters to the New York Times to the Guardian to the Atlantic had never heard of such a thing happening until it involved a dinner for oil and gas executives hosted by - you guessed it - Donald J. Trump.
You don’t have to believe me: Just go out to Google and do a search on “Trump and oil executives,” and see what comes up.
Here’s what I found:
I especially love the headline from Politico: “A little bold and gross: Oil industry writes executive orders for Trump to sign.”
Hey, you never saw that publication complaining about the NRDC, Sierra Club or PETA writing executive orders for Joe Biden to sign. You sure as hell don’t see any of those propaganda outlets bitching when the Center For Biological Diversity dictates endangered species listings to the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, or when EV makers and wind and solar developers literally wrote entire sections in the Inflation Reduction Act that now plow billions of dollars of subsidies back into their own pockets.
Truly, the sort of rampant crony capitalism running out-of-control in Washington right now is fantastic to the media so long as Democrats are in charge.
But let Trump promise to take action to reverse some of Biden’s climate alarm policy madness while soliciting donations, and you’d think the damn world has come to an end.
One of my favorite excerpts from the WaPo story comes in the first 2 paragraphs:
Former president Donald Trump repeatedly ranted about wind power during a fundraising dinner with oil and gas industry executives last week, claiming that the renewable-energy source is unreliable, unattractive and bad for the environment.
“I hate wind,” Trump told the executives over a meal of chopped steak at his Mar-a-Lago Club and resort in Florida, according to a person with knowledge of the meeting, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe a private conversation.
[End]
Wooo-hooo! Who do I send the check to? I’m happy to pay for truth-telling like this, and so should every one of those present at that Mar-a-Lago event.
Meanwhile, the writers at the far-left Guardian seem to be having a case of the vapors here:
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”.
[End]
I mean, this is just the same kind of stuff Trump did in his first term. Were these clowns just not paying attention?
And that last sentence about Biden’s ‘pause’ in LNG export permits: Are we really to believe these fake journalists aren’t aware that order was made purely as a sop to Biden’s own campaign funders in the climate alarm lobby?
Like it or not, this is how American politics work: Individuals, NGOs, unions, companies and entire industries tend to donate money to politicians who promise to take policy actions that are best for their own interests.
One of the big media complaints about Trump is that he tends to be so direct and blunt about it, or as multiple stories complain, he takes a “transactional approach” to politics. Well hell, all that means is he’s being unusually honest about what everyone knows is going on here.
What these propagandists still don’t get after all these years of covering Trump is that his direct and blunt approach to politics is one of the main reasons why he won in 2016, probably won in 2020, and is increasingly likely to win again this year. The fact that his behavior is “unusual” for a political figure is actually one of his main assets.
Back in 2016, an unusually high percentage of oil executives supported Hillary Clinton instead of Trump. If they make that same mistake in judgment again this time around, well, they will richly deserve what they get from a second Biden term.
That is all.
https://blackmon.substack.com/p/the-energy-absurdity-of-the-week-a36?publication_id=712558&post_id=144477152&isFreemail=false&r=rd9j8&triedRedirect=true
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