• Suavevillain@lemmy.world
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    Trump is literally a servant for corporations. it is amazing his cultists thinks he stands up to them at all.

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        As the polls close like a casket

        On truth devoured

        A Silent play in the shadow of power

        A spectacle monopolized

        The camera’s eyes on choice disguised

        Was it cast for the mass who burn and toil?

        Or for the vultures who thirst for blood and oil?

        Yes a spectacle monopolized

        They hold the reins and stole your eyes

        Or the fistagons

        The bullets and bombs

        Who stuff the banks

        Who staff the party ranks

        More for Harris or the son of a slumlord

        None of the above fuck it cut the cord

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    Makes sense. Trump doesn’t answer to Congress. So no point telling them. He does however answer to oil companies.

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    He didn’t “tip them off” about an action he was taking. He CONSULTED with them to see if it was an action he SHOULD take. If they would have said they couldn’t do anything, we wouldn’t be in this situation. If they wouldn’t have said the problem is Maduro, we wouldn’t be in this situation.

    “They want to go in, and they’re going to do a great job for the people of Venezuela, and they’re going to represent us well,” Trump said. “The infrastructure is rusty, rotten, most of it is unusable. It’s old. It’s broken. You see pipes lying all over the ground, nothing’s been invested for years.”

    “The country is a mess. It’s been horribly run. The oil is just flowing at a very low level,” Trump told reporters on Sunday. “Even if it was badly run, it should have more income, more oil than what they do. So we’re going to have the big oil companies going in, they’re going to fix the infrastructure, they’re going to invest money."

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    Can’t tell Congress because “Congress Leaks” (his words), but oil Companies like Chevron are known to never spill anything, right?

    Actually I guess you could say that if oil companies are good about anything, it’s keeping their mouths shut. So from a defense/security perspective, the logic actually tracks…

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    Hmm, maybe we should have taken it seriously when he promised them he’d do whatever they wanted if they helped him get reelected…

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    Speaking aboard Air Force One on Sunday, the billionaire president told reporters that he talked to oil companies “before and after” the attack, describing them as crucial to “fix the infrastructure” in the South American country after the capture of Nicolás Maduro.

    “They want to go in, and they’re going to do a great job for the people of Venezuela, and they’re going to represent us well,” Trump said. “The infrastructure is rusty, rotten, most of it is unusable. It’s old. It’s broken. You see pipes lying all over the ground, nothing’s been invested for years.”