Donald Trump has said he might block ExxonMobil from investing in Venezuela after the oil company’s chief executive called the country “uninvestable” during a White House meeting last week.
Darren Woods told the US president that Venezuela would need to change its laws before it could be an attractive investment opportunity, during the high-profile meeting on Friday with at least 17 other oil executives.
Woods’ sceptical remarks quickly emerged as the dominant headline, undercutting the White House’s hopes of building momentum from its engagement with the world’s most prominent oil executives.
"I didn’t like Exxon’s response,” Trump told reporters on Air Force One on his way back to Washington on Sunday. “I’ll probably be inclined to keep Exxon out. I didn’t like their response. They’re playing too cute.”
Exxon did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
“I’m not showing up to your party.”
“Well fuck you, I’m not inviting you then!”
OK?
Seriously, Americans, how the fuck did this guy win two elections? Please make it make sense.
He’s basically an amalgamation of all the worst qualities of the average American. He represents more Americans than he doesn’t. This is something we Americans need to come to terms with since a lot of us are in denial about that.
yup, it really shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone truly familiar with america as a whole, anyone not stuck in a bubble.
dumb as shit and the only reason for relevance is his daddy’s name, yet completely convinced of his own superiority. that shit is about as universal as it gets in america. and it’s the perfect setup to run a puppet government
the extra funny/sad part is that all it would take for dems or anyone else to beat em is just…be authentic, for once in their miserable lives. that’s literally all it takes, but these coastal elites who have been trained their whole lives to be career politicians are completely incapable of that because they’re barely human anymore.
had kamala stuck to her “free universal healthcare” shtick instead of flip-flopping immediately once her campaign advisors told her that was polling bad with their donors, she would have won.
americans were promised “hope and change” by Obama and all they got was more corporate kickbacks and pointless wars, establishment politicians seem convinced things can still “return to normal” (ie. unsustainable ratfucking) when trump is gone which is why they’re doing the absolute minimum to stop him and co. now
personally…i think shit goes from bad to much worse when/if he croaks mid term.
Well said. The establishment learned nothing.
Maybe the mold will be broken I suspect false vote rigging indictments coming on dems fall 2027 in the lead up to the presidential election.
Might be able to retake it in the succession fight, but not with newsome running as status quo. Even if they did squeak a win past r cheating, denial, they would do nothing with it, be unpopular, hand it right back.
As if keeping things from getting as bad was acceptable, we need a New Deal.
Either we give it to them, or fake populist fascists will.
i do allow myself a smidge of optimism, with mamdani winning NYC’s mayoral election.
if an open and honest socialist can win major seat in the most crooked/establishment heart of america, then progressives can win any seat in the country.
Mamdami is absolutely a template for how progressives can win nation wide. But the key is to treat it is as a toolkit, not something to be copy-and-pasted exactly. Mamdami wouldn’t win in, say, Idaho, but there are people who can. They just have to keep hammering on the shit that matters to the average voter.
Biden and Kamala sank because they promised to keep doing exactly the same shit they’d been doing for the last four years, while refusing to acknowledge how much worse the average person’s quality of life had gotten over the last four years. Mamdami won because he focused, hard on cost of living issues. Make that your core message and people will flock to you. Healthcare and groceries. That’s what it’s all about right now.
Not just progressive, we need reform candidates of all types, to fit their districts, cooperating in agreement on working people not getting screwed by the rich without consent.
And a citizenry organized on our own forums, maybe a Federated thing, where we can cooperate know what we agree on and organize into public and private groups to that effect, finding and grooming candidates that are not sold out cunts being one of those things we agree
i mean…there is no center in the US, all reform is “left” at this point i think. anyone running on a platform of “i want to actually spend your $ on something useful, instead of ratfucking it” is progressive in the US, that’s how far the overton window has shifted to the right
The sentiment is widespread amongst conservatives as well however. We actually agree on a lot with a lot of of these people. And out and out Progressive will not be able to win rural Nebraska or whatever, but a different flavor of reformer could. And we could all agree but the rich should not be allowed to take our hard-earned freedoms and lower our quality of life, or dump their toxic byproducts in the ditch and poison us all. The rich captured both conservative and liberal parties.
Do they also have ivory towers?
81% of the population lives in coastal states. Are you saying inland politicians are more authentic? Or are you playing the classic Republican spiel that them city folk are the cause of all the problems? Because I haven’t seen any evidence to back either claim.
The President isn’t elected in a popular vote, and small states in the middle of the county have vastly more relative voting power than states on the coasts? It isn’t that inland politicians are more authentic. It is that inland voters, who have double the voting power, choose to vote for people who ACT like salt of the earth, whether they are from a long-wealthy family or not. So if you act like a coastal elite, you are at a disadvantage compared to someone who acts like a cowboy even though they went to Yale. Or if you talk like a normal person and use complete sentences, you are at a disadvantage to someone who yells and screams about being a Christian even though they aren’t.
So they believe one act and not the other, despite the behavior (and votes in congress) to the contrary. So we’re back to lack of education being the problem, unless you’re a conservative, in which case it’s a benefit.
Pretty much, yeah. Millions of Americans still think the guy who would be cool in high school is a better leader than the biggest nerd in school. They vote for the guy they want to have a beer with.
Also, millions of Americans care more about saving their money in taxes over hurting other people.
Yeah, I had that conversation. Someone would rather pay more for healthcare than have someone who doesn’t ‘deserve’ it have access.
…the US doesn’t have proportional representation for presidential elections, nor for the House in most states considering how gerrymandered everyt is, so it doesn’t matter where most of the people live.
until it does, how rural america sees you is all that matters. you want to win battleground states, you have to atleast be able to pretend to be an actual person.
doesn’t matter what your positions are, becaude most US voters are just selfish anyway, be a complete piece of shit long as you come off as a “real” piece of shit.
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She didn’t really flip flop. She had a working plan to take steps toward universal healthcare/Medicare for all that acknowledged the political realities of instituting such a system with republican pushback, but the Dems genuinely do suck ass at messaging so that got lost in the sauce. Her platform never really shifted throughout the campaign, just the PR. Which yeah was a bad move but the fix was already in anyway.
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You are pretending you do not know how politics is played, and excusing the dems refusal to play it, to be popular, to offer reform.
To LEAD the party. If 2024 did not wake you up nothing will. You will forever be a de facto tool of the rw preventing a party that can unseat these republicans.
Scratch a both sideser, find ruspublican agitprop. Every time.
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Us military bootlicker.
I don’t think 1/3 of the population counts as the average.
Says the guy emulating him.
Behold, the American in denial. I bet you vote third party too.
If you are brave enough watch fox news and it might explain why. The facts run scared, the conspiracy theories are king, and hate grows on trees.
Grandma and grandpa didn’t die fast enough.
Bullshit, Trump won the young votes too.
Yay pod casts.
Thanks Joe Rogan!
It was the young vote that did it sadly.
Yes, and I’m so tired of hearing people blame every political illness on the older generations.
In the 70’s we had peace movements and protests to make a better world like nothing you see today.
As I see it, it’s the young generations that are failing today. There is no idealism, no goals for a better future that they fight for.
The R/D split is only like 53/47 for the baby boomers. It’s not like they’re a solid red demographic.
The only viable opposition party is deeply corrupt and doesn’t know how to campaign anymore
This guy is the quintessential american. If you take the average of all United States residents, this is exactly what pops out. Its not surprising at all.
Well, no
You just have to scrape the grease traps of the southern states, and roll that average american together. Most Americans hate these turds
dumb as shit, completely convinced of his own superiority, and his only reason for relevance is his family name. that shit is relatable as fuck to rich/poor alike.
sprinkle in a bit of racism, an incredibly under-educated population, and an extensive propaganda machine and it should be no surprise he wins…mostly just from coming off as “authentic”.
his polling was worse when he read from scripts, him going off script on completely batshit insane tangents made him “real” instead of just another career ratfuck politician
and of course the real kicker…most americans are short-sighted and greedy as fuck (which also makes trump relatable) and will just vote for whoever promises them the most $
Propaganda is powerful
This is how much enough Americans don’t trust women in leadership roles. They’ll make all sorts of excuses to explain it away, but at the heart, they just don’t like women.
God I hate this reductive take. Yeah, it played a part in it (especially in 2016) but it wasn’t THE reason Trump won. And any time this is brought up, nobody talks about how many votes they DID get for being women.
Both nominations were forced on us…two establishment Democrats when the country needs change. They’d be unpopular candidates if they were men, too. Hell, I’m starting to believe they were chosen because Democrats wanted to have “sexism” in their back pocket as a scapegoat.
There were no good reasons not to vote for them but pinning it all on sexism is such a cop out. I’d say Democrats need to take some damn responsibility but lord knows the ones in power benefit from a Trump presidency, too.
“Is it our platform and inaction on the face of fascism what makes people not like us? No, it must be sexism!”
Note that I said “enough” voters. Of course it’s not the only reason, but considering an incredibly boring and too-old candidate in Joe Biden beat him while two qualified women lost to him (especially the second time where we knew what we were signing up for), I think it has to be taken into account.
It was such a minor factor both losses but it’s the #1 thing that constantly gets brought up when either election is discussed. A woman running a good campaign would have won but both Clinton and Harris sucked.
Election interference had a significantly bigger impact than the gender of either candidate but we’ve just stopped talking about that for some reason.
And now people are using it as an excuse for never running another female candidate for president ever again. Women as a whole are suddenly unelectable because we tried it twice with two terrible options, thus “proving” that people won’t vote for a woman president. It’s maddening.
Genocide is a good reason not to vote for someone. 🤷🏼♂️
Oh look, it’s one of the actual reasons Harris didn’t win!
No, not her support of Israel. A moronic voter who decided genocide and a ruined economy under Trump is preferable a genocide and mild progress under Harris.
That is, of course, assuming you’re actually a citizen. Foreign misinformation campaigns were a huge part of last few elections.
Keep telling yourself that. Moral abstainers make up an unbelievably small percentage of Dem voters. Event if everyone who voted third party or abstained because of genocide support had actually voted for Kamala, she still would have lost.
No, I blame all of you who were content to let the Dems force a status quo candidate on us while quashing progressive movements. If y’all actually had some balls and held your politicians to account, maybe you could have shifted your candidate’s position on genocide or made space for an actual progressive.
Instead, you were all focused on your fears of Daddy coming home and beating everyone with his belt.
So now we get the worst of both worlds. Trump is thrashing American, and there is no effective opposition, because you all voted for no effective opposition.
I said ONE OF the reasons, not THE reason. A MAJOR reasons was the social media campaigns, many of which focused on Harris supporting Israel.
You blame me for something I had no part in. I supported Sanders in the 2016 primary and we didn’t even GET a primary last year. I also didn’t vote for traitorous senator who won in my state.
But it’s MY fault Trump won, huh? Moreso than the person who fell for the disinformation campaigns and got hung up on an atrocity both assholes support?
yup, anyone not stuck in a bubble and being honest with themselves knows exactly when/why kamala lost.
even with being forced on america she still could have won…but she flip-flopped on universal healthcare immediately
as soon as that happens 99% of voters go “oh…yup, just another lying career politician who doesn’t really believe in anything, they’ll just do whatever their
donorsbribes tell em to”republicans are atleast honest in their greed, you can predict with 100% certainty what they’re going to do. just plan for maximum pain/cruelty and you can check out of politics completely for the next 4 years. dems though? dems win and you got to actually pay attention, they’re much better liers. voting for the bad lier is just good business
Congratulations, you made the genocide worse! Truly, your moral superiority matches your intellect.
israel would still be leveling apartment blocs and starving babies to death under kamala, lets be real
the only difference is maybe ukraine would get some proper fucking support and we’d only have 1 pointless war instead of 2
but come on…our government works for israel first america second, has for decades at this point
The US would be pushing back against Israeli use of force like the Dems generally have consistently been doing instead of actively giving the all clear and cheering on the accelerated total destruction of Gaza which is exactly what Trump fucking said he’d do. Which anyone who wasn’t a fucking idiot or Russian propagandist knew.
lol, sure. couple strongly worded letters and Net would level a hospital just to remind dems who holds their lease.
Ok so next time you break a finger or toe your logic says cut the whole fuckin limb off.