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And there it is America. You will be paying for the oil baron's windfall.
They're already paying. They're about to pay more. 😄
Public costs and private profits eh?
I think even a general strike would fall short as an action.
So much capitalism. What a free market /s
“A tremendous amount of money will have to be spent and the oil companies will spend it, and then they’ll get reimbursed by us or through revenue,” the president said.
If oil companies invest in Venezuela that is their problem not the US taxpayers problem.
This man somehow gets dumber every single day. I didn't think there were IQ's below zero but he is proving otherwise.
He's dumb, but this is deliberate. The whole point is to take public funds and give them to the wealthy while making it impossible for the poor to live.
This drives everything, doesn't it. Even when it doesn't look like it on the surface, look for an upwards redistribution scheme is and you find the logic behind the madness.
Yeah. This isn't the first time we as taxpayers have paid for "infrastructure upgrades" with nothing to show for it. They straight up pocketed the money.
We thought we were going to end with techno feudalism. Turns out it's just plain ol' feudalism.
WDYM not US taxpayer problem, who paid for the special military operation, that's supposed to enable oil corpos to "invest"?
But still can't afford healthcare for our citizens, somehow.
This clown needs to be removed.
The US wants to kill off the non working citizens and funnel those savings to the oligarchy. Such efficiency. We really need to start hunting billionaires.
Hey, um, congress? What the fuck are you waiting for?
The US energy secretary, Chris Wright, reportedly plans to meet representatives of Chevron, ConocoPhillips and ExxonMobil at the Goldman Sachs Energy, Clean Tech & Utilities Conference
This alone would be over the top satirical fiction of a thoroughly corrupt government in most modern countries. To the point where the premise would risk rejection by editors for being too fucking blatant about it! 🤦
So if we pay for it, we'll own the product... r-r-right?!
Every year, on the anniversary of Maduro's kidnapping, you would allowed to dip your finger in a pot of crude and keep what sticks to your skin.
That is all.
The real reason Trump took out Maduro. He dances better than him without jacking two guys off at the same time.
Americans really need to look into tax striking
We need to start looking into French inventors of the late 18th century.
They are looking into a tax strike , especially MAGAs, as well as a general strike .
I feel like we could save a lot of money on waste fraud and abuse if we threw Shitler and the Turd Reich into Lake Michigan
Everybody who voted for this imbecile should be forced to reimburse the rest of the world for the damage he and his cronies are doing. Everything they own plus twelve years of indentured servitude would be a very small first step.
So he invaded Venezuala for oil money, but is planning to take a loss so that other people can sell that oil for him.
A genius businessman, everybody.
Double and triple losses. I'm certain the oil companies already wrote off their losses and were made whole on our dime as well.
The coolest thing? I was just watching a news story claiming it may take one or more decades to get things in order there. Billions and literal decades with nothing to show.
That article reads like they're trying to sell the bear's skin before they've caught it. They kidnapped the Venezuelan leader, but the rest of the old regime is still in power. The USA doesn't control anything on the ground, yet they're talking as if it's a done deal and that they can just walk in and take over.
I also wouldn't want to be a us oil company employee that gets send over to Venezuela. Even if the USA somehow manages to take control of the oil fields, there's likely to be a lot of sabotage and guerilla attacks.
FUCK THAT!
If taxpayers pay for it, then taxpayers should receive the profits.
Why the fuck should taxpayers finance capitalist ventures that only enrich the shareholders?
Because fascism == corporatism, and we'rr living under a fascist regime.
Lol Donny you're losing the thread here you gotta pretend to fuck over foreigners, not Americans. Come on now, focus!
The oil companies don't want to invest because in 10y when production recovers, who knows what oil prices will be? Even if they could pump it out tomorrow, Oil is cheap, and driving it down would bankrupt American oil production.
The logic of "addiction to foreign oil" is outdated. America is an energy exporter.
The US exports light crude, but has to import heavy crude.
Goldman Sachs Energy, Clean Tech & Utilities Conference in Miami later this week.
Earnest wuestion: How does one find out about events like this with sufficient notice to organize protests to disrupt and shut these kinds of meetings down?
Wait! Isn't socialism, according to the american doctrine, a very bad thing?
They’ve always been doing this anyway. Your taxes fund dividends.
That sounds a lot like communism 🤔
what an absolute scam wizard
Gosh, that's nice of 'em! Where's the, "I don't want one cent of MUH TAXES going to fund foreigners" crowd now?
If this keeps up I’m just gonna stop paying taxes. So sick of this shit.
You need organized mass resistance, not individual actions.
"America First".
Lmao.
Imagine being a MAGA brainlet in 2026.
Resistance becomes necessary once any crime becomes legalized in a mobocracy.
I am surprised to hear such a realistic assessment.
I thought this was going to be like the wall or tariffs, but yeah the us tax payer will fund the foreign country’s infrastructure.