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.
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.
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.
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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It’s really surprising and disappointing how many of my countrymen are assholes.
The only viable opposition party is deeply corrupt and doesn’t know how to campaign anymore
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.
I didn’t even think of that but now I’m pissed about it, too. We need a new party
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.
Propaganda is powerful
Love how the media is just accepting that kidnapping a world leader means you own the place, now we’re just worried about logistics and investment
I love how journalistic institutions are now framing the annexation of Greenland as “an option” for the administration in the most tepid analysis of potential “costs.” I mean, Associated press, what are you doing.
No AP, you meant to say “Unhinged global superpower threatens world stability and possibly world-war with absurd expansionist goals for no fucking reason, US citizens blamed for being fucking dumbasses to let this pile of wood-shavings in a human skinsuit run the country. The cost of doing this would mean plunging the USA into fully being a third-world country with ICBM’s and the whole world needs to unite and remove this entire house of fools.”
I am souring on mainstream, respected news outlets, using timid, middle-of-the-road language talking about any of this. They are complicit in normalizing this entire destruction of the USA and our potential slide into disaster and suffering around the world because of irresponsible leadership.
I am souring on mainstream, respected news outlets
What do you suppose their job is?
Exxon doesn’t want to invest… So trump will block them from investing if they don’t comply. Art of the deal, folks.
Trump has the baton of a 6 year old bully
For oil companies that help steal Venezuelan resources, I’d like to say I’ll join the boycott …. But I already drive an EV and all the other products generated from that do not have a clear line back to them
Regime change costs money and blood. It would be so funny for oil companies to send a bunch of people down there only for them to get merced
They should send their CEOs to scout it out. I hear there’s oil deeeeeep in the woods
“How dare you distract from distraction!! Now people will start talking about all those child rapes I did with my best friend Jeffery Epstein again!!!”
Trump watches Landman and obviously knows better than ExxonMobil.
Nice guy Trump
