Donald Trump has suggested US taxpayers could reimburse energy companies for repairing Venezuelan infrastructure for extracting and shipping oil.
Trump acknowledged that “a lot of money” would need to be spent to increase oil production in Venezuela after US forces ousted its leader, Nicolás Maduro, but suggested his government could pay oil companies to do the work.
“A tremendous amount of money will have to be spent and the oil companies will spend it, and then they’ll get reimbursed by us or through revenue,” the president said.
The US energy secretary, Chris Wright, reportedly plans to meet representatives of Chevron, ConocoPhillips and ExxonMobil at the Goldman Sachs Energy, Clean Tech & Utilities Conference in Miami later this week.
Lol Donny you’re losing the thread here you gotta pretend to fuck over foreigners, not Americans. Come on now, focus!
Wait! Isn’t socialism, according to the american doctrine, a very bad thing?
Reimbursing oil companies does not seem like socialism.
It’s hard to pass as “sound investment”, also.
what an absolute scam wizard
Goldman Sachs Energy, Clean Tech & Utilities Conference in Miami later this week.
Earnest wuestion: How does one find out about events like this with sufficient notice to organize protests to disrupt and shut these kinds of meetings down?
FUCK THAT!
If taxpayers pay for it, then taxpayers should receive the profits.
Why the fuck should taxpayers finance capitalist ventures that only enrich the shareholders?
Because fascism == corporatism, and we’rr living under a fascist regime.
I hate to break it to you, but Trump sort of wants all of our money.
his wealth has grown like 3x since he was elected, before that he was losing quite a bit of money fending of lawsuits and other cases in court.
Greedy bastards will never be satisfied.
At my age I think that is the only course in system that allows unrestricted hoarding of resources.
I don’t think these people have anything outside of their need to hoard in life. It is a mental illness.
I agree with you completely and I’ve been calling it out for years. People treated me like I was a crackpot for saying things like “infinite pursuit of growth is neither possible nor desirable.” Or “life isn’t a zero-sum game and a system that’s built to uplift everyone is better than a system designed to maximize gains for a few.”
Clearly there aren’t many leftists around me, or at least the ones who are hate me for different reasons. Maybe because I said MLs are authoritarians and no better than maga. I like democracy, it’s capitalism that needs to go. The Nordic model seemed to work just fine until right-wing propagandists invaded Scandinavia.
Oh, I also compared capitalists to cancerous growths, and that made the oligarchs feel so oppressed. Maybe that’s why billionaires these days are comparing themselves to holocaust victims. Those poor billionaires… won’t anyone think of the shareholders?
they are also obsessed with longevity, they want to outlive the people they exploited so they dont come after them, plus to remain relevant.
Well I hope their bodies reject the transplants and they die on the operating table
Clearly there aren’t many leftists around me
Sounds likely. I don’t know many that aren’t terrified of a society that glorifies unreasonable accumulation.
Because they think it would allow them to do the same…
…while they work into their seventies because a full retirement is out of reach for most of the working class…
Cool, we can just make a new currency
And there it is America. You will be paying for the oil baron’s windfall.
They’re already paying. They’re about to pay more. 😄
Public costs and private profits eh?
I think even a general strike would fall short as an action.
So much capitalism. What a free market /s
Resistance becomes necessary once any crime becomes legalized in a mobocracy.
That article reads like they’re trying to sell the bear’s skin before they’ve caught it. They kidnapped the Venezuelan leader, but the rest of the old regime is still in power. The USA doesn’t control anything on the ground, yet they’re talking as if it’s a done deal and that they can just walk in and take over.
I also wouldn’t want to be a us oil company employee that gets send over to Venezuela. Even if the USA somehow manages to take control of the oil fields, there’s likely to be a lot of sabotage and guerilla attacks.
Yep. The US can’t exert real control without boots on the ground. Boots who would, once again, find themselves fighting angry, and well armed, citizens.
But still can’t afford healthcare for our citizens, somehow.
This clown needs to be removed.
The US wants to kill off the non working citizens and funnel those savings to the oligarchy. Such efficiency. We really need to start hunting billionaires.
The US wants to kill off the non working citizens and funnel those savings to the oligarchy.
Final stage capitalism
Paul Singer will take this all the way up to the Supreme Court… again.
We pay for the honer of paying more later. Its the circle of grift.
they’re just teabagging us at this point
GG no RE
“A tremendous amount of money will have to be spent and the oil companies will spend it, and then they’ll get reimbursed by us or through revenue,” the president said.
If oil companies invest in Venezuela that is their problem not the US taxpayers problem.
This man somehow gets dumber every single day. I didn’t think there were IQ’s below zero but he is proving otherwise.
He’s dumb, but this is deliberate. The whole point is to take public funds and give them to the wealthy while making it impossible for the poor to live.
This drives everything, doesn’t it. Even when it doesn’t look like it on the surface, look for an upwards redistribution scheme is and you find the logic behind the madness.
Stealing from the poor to give to the rich…
Yeah. This isn’t the first time we as taxpayers have paid for “infrastructure upgrades” with nothing to show for it. They straight up pocketed the money.
WDYM not US taxpayer problem, who paid for the special military operation, that’s supposed to enable oil corpos to “invest”?
“America First”.
Lmao.
Imagine being a MAGA brainlet in 2026.
