Biden May Have Quietly Thrown a Wrench in Trump’s Plan to ‘Drill, Baby, Drill’ (www.rollingstone.com)

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Trump wants his administration to approve new liquified natural gas export projects as soon as possible. A late Biden study could slow things down

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[-] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 27 points 2 days ago

lol what is it with these journalists thinking Trump will give a shit about legality or studies or rational action or guidelines or investigations or… well… anything besides whatever the fuck he and his buddies feel like doing? I don’t get it. It’s obvious they’re ignoring all of the rules and guidelines. Why do so many journalists insists that the rules and guidelines are still meaningful in any fashion beyond “they used to matter, and now they don’t”?

[-] Asafum@feddit.nl 12 points 1 day ago

The Trump administration:

Fox News: We're the party of law and order! Biden was a dictator!

[-] barkingspiders@infosec.pub 6 points 1 day ago

underrated gif here, this is exactly the situation, Trump and his ilk belong to the ideology that power can and should be seized and that the people who seize it must deserve it, the only rules they live by are the ones they think will benefit themselves

[-] floofloof@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 day ago

The Democratic Party seems to suffer from the same problem. They're unable to see what's actually taking place here. It's like all the people who thought they could persuade Mr. Hitler to see reason and act responsibly.

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