Tuesday, March 31, 2026

US to pay almost $1bn to French energy company to kill wind project plan

 Really fucking awful shit from the most evil set of GOP assholes yet:


As a fuel crisis triggered by the war in Iran drives up global fossil fuel prices, the Trump administration has announced it will pay French energy major TotalEnergies $1bn to kill plans to construct wind farms off the US east coast.
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In the deal announced on Monday, TotalEnergies will give up two offshore leases it had purchased off New York and North Carolina. Trump’s Department of the Interior will reimburse the company the $928m it paid for the leases under Joe Biden.

TotalEnergies has pledged not to develop any new offshore wind projects in the country, a US interior department statement said, and will invest nearly $1bn this year in the development of four trains at the Rio Grande LNG plant in Texas, and the development of upstream conventional oil in the US Gulf and shale gas production, the statement said.
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Lena Moffitt, executive director of the climate advocacy group Evergreen Action, called the new deal “a taxpayer-funded bribe to kill homegrown clean energy and hand the money straight to oil and gas executives”.

Monday, March 16, 2026

Trump draws backlash for comment on Iran war: ‘Maybe we shouldn’t even be there’

 What a fucking moronic doofus GOP asshole:

 

Trump draws backlash for comment on Iran war: ‘Maybe we shouldn’t even be there’ Donald Trump drew a backlash on Sunday for suggesting US efforts to protect the strait of Hormuz were unnecessary – and that “maybe we shouldn’t even be there at all” because his country has plenty of oil of its own. 

The president made the contradictory comment to reporters on Air Force One after pleading with European and Nato allies to enter the war against Iran to help the US secure the strait amid the largest oil supply disruption in history. 

“Really, I’m demanding that these countries come in and protect their own territory – because it is their territory,” he said. “They should come and they should help us protect it. You could make the case that maybe we shouldn’t even be there at all, because we don’t need it. We have a lot of oil. We’re the number one producer anywhere in the world times two.”

 


"Trump Will Destroy Washington if It’s the Last Thing He Does"

The head GOP asshole aka the shitblimp in chief is determined to remake Wash DC in his grotesque image.

 

As Mussolini misunderstood Rome, Mr. Trump misunderstands Washington. Washington was conceived as an expression of democracy, a place in which the largest and grandest public building was the Capitol, where the representatives of the people gathered. The White House is a mansion, not a palace; it is large compared with the average house of its time, but it was never intended to intimidate. In person, especially if you are used to the oligarchic great houses of the Gilded Age of a century ago or the ones that have gone up in the Hamptons in New York or Jackson Hole, Wyo., that typify the age we are living in now, it’s surprisingly human-scaled and lived in. The president resides upstairs, like a shopkeeper over the store of state. There is a simplicity to it, a restraint. And it is not — at least was not before this past year — gilded.

Until now, every addition to the White House — the North Portico, the South Portico, the East Wing, the West Wing — was designed to defer to the original structure and to make it larger without appearing to be making it larger. The East Wing and the West Wing were pavilions, built later and intended to recede beside the White House. (Thomas Jefferson designed the East and West Colonnades before the wings were built.)

The proposed new ballroom, nominally designed by the architect Shalom Baranes but for all intents and purposes designed by Mr. Trump, does exactly the opposite. It is a huge, dumb box. The portico at one end is more than twice the size of the North Portico of the White House, and it doesn’t even serve as a door. It is more like a decorative emergency exit atop a vast staircase leading down to the White House grounds, the so-called President’s Park, which would also be compromised by the enormous addition.

It is not just symmetry that is being thrown away here; it is more than two centuries of respectful deference to building, function and history.

As Mussolini’s hand was apparent in all his schemes for Rome, both the ones that were realized and the ones that were not, the architects working on Mr. Trump’s various projects are more factotums than independent thinkers. Mr. Baranes is well suited to the task, since he has long had a reputation in Washington as an architect who works comfortably with real estate developers and can produce work of whatever type in whatever style his clients want.

James McCrery, who designed the first versions of the ballroom, is a respected classicist who, The Washington Post reported, was uncomfortable with the president’s desire to make the building as big as Mr. Trump wanted it. Mr. McCrery, who stepped aside from his central role in the project, seemingly made the mistake of believing that Mr. Trump had some understanding of the dignity and proportionality of classicism. But the client wanted what he wanted.

Mr. Baranes is not the only architect to have been caught in the trap of serving the president’s belief that bigger is always better. Nicolas Charbonneau of Harrison Design has come up with an arch Mr. Trump wants to build on a traffic circle facing the Lincoln Memorial across the Potomac that would be taller than the Arc de Triomphe in Paris. At 250 feet, his arch — or Mr. Trump’s arch, to be more accurate — would overshadow the Lincoln Memorial and destroy the subtle relationship between the memorial and Arlington National Cemetery. There is a reason that this land has not had a monument on it. The Lincoln Memorial was designed to be seen not only from the east, down the length of the National Mall, but also from the west, across the Potomac, and this arch would be a huge intrusion on that cherished vista.

Like Mussolini, Mr. Trump grasps at things that he thinks will express the strength of his regime but that only show its vulgarity. The arch, if built, would be less a monument than a roadblock.

 

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State of the Union-- State of the Unhinged: Donald Trump disgraces the office of the presidency with another record-length, hate-filled ramble

 What a motherfucking deranged piece of shit GOP asshole


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Feb 25 , 2026

At 9 pm, Donald J. Trump began what would become the longest State of the Union address in American history. For one hour and forty-eight minutes, he stood in front of the country and delivered a speech that was not about the state of our union at all, but about the state of his own power, and how desperate he is to hold onto it as it slips further and further out of his control. It was full of deliberate lies from start to finish, packed with racist talking points, made-up statistics, twisted grievances, and the kind of unhinged rhetoric that made clear just how afraid he is, not only that the truth about his ties to Epstein will finally come out, but that the full impact of what he’s done to our economy, to our international alliances, to the rule of law, and to the basic systems that hold this country together will finally catch up to him.

And if there was still any doubt about what this night was really about, he erased it himself with this: “These people are crazy. I’m telling you, they’re crazy. Amazing. We’re lucky we have a country. With people like this, Democrats are destroying our country, but we’ve stopped it just in the nick of time, didn’t we?” That’s what the President of the United States said tonight, into the microphone, on national television, in between demands for applause and pauses to catch his breath.

“This is the golden age of America,” he said, through mouth breathing, while leaning on the podium for support. And that’s when the lies began. He said the economy was bad before he took office, and now it had a “stunning economic turnaround”, the “biggest in history.” And then he launched into one of the most bizarre moments of the night: “People are asking me: Please, please, please, Mr. President, we’re winning too much. We can’t take it anymore. We’re not used to winning in our country. Until you came along, we were just always losing, but now we’re winning too much.” No one is saying this. No one has ever said this. This is a man constructing a fantasy in real time and then responding to it as if it were a conversation he actually had. And the room clapped for it.

Then came the line he always circles back to, the one that slipped out again tonight without hesitation: “So in my first year of the second term, it should be my third term, but strange things happen.” He said it like a joke. But this isn’t a joke. This is the President of the United States once again suggesting that the two-term limit doesn’t apply to him. That what happened in 2020 was somehow stolen. That the rules are optional when he doesn’t like the outcome. Is he saying he had no plans to leave? That he still doesn’t? We can’t pretend these moments don’t matter. Because he keeps saying it out loud. And the danger is pretending he doesn’t mean every word of it.

https://heatherdelaneyreese.substack.com/p/trump-showed-how-desperate-he-was

 

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