Donald Trump offered to weaken climate regulations in exchange for a $1bn contribution from oil company bosses to support his return to the White House later this year. During a dinner for senior oil executives at his Mar-a-Lago club last month, Trump “vowed to immediately reverse dozens of president [Joe] Biden’s environmental rules and policies and stop new ones from being enacted” if they gave him the money, according to the newspaper. One top priority for the executives, which Trump said they would get “on the first day”, was an end to the freeze on permits for new liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports, the article notes.

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    6 months ago

    They are not the same.

    I don’t like Biden, or most Democrats, and I agree with you that they are fucking us over.

    But they are not the same.

    Biden won’t need to pardon himself when he leaves office (assuming he’s alive).

    If you don’t vote for Biden, you’re voting for Trump. When you don’t vote, you’re voting for the people who say your vote doesn’t matter, who say you have no power, who say both sides are the same, and nothing can ever change.

    If you wait for the perfect candidate to go out and vote, then you are voting against progress.