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.
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.
That sounds a lot like communism 🤔
So if we pay for it, we’ll own the product… r-r-right?!
Every year, on the anniversary of Maduro’s kidnapping, you would allowed to dip your finger in a pot of crude and keep what sticks to your skin.
That is all.
The real reason Trump took out Maduro. He dances better than him without jacking two guys off at the same time.
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
Everybody who voted for this imbecile should be forced to reimburse the rest of the world for the damage he and his cronies are doing. Everything they own plus twelve years of indentured servitude would be a very small first step.
At least. Honesty, when they’re starving in the coming depression and when their kids are bleeding out on a battlefield, they’ll suffer enough. They might not be cognizant of it and they’ll do the whole mental gymnastics but those conditions affect your subconscious and physical health beyond what you can ignore
You really think things would be different if the other sock puppet got elected?
Are you questioning what the impact of electing someone as president does, or were you simply aiming for the dumbest comment of 2026?
Neither?
They’re not thinking at all. They are just using talking points from their “party” on deflecting any responsibility for the fascist actions of their country and turning the blame on someone else to feel self righteous.
Hypocrisy is something yankistanis are born with. Pathetic spineless rags.
Have no doubt, they’ll throw anyone under the bus. They’re only bothered this war criminal is from the wrong party, other wise they’d be kissing ass.
Obviously they would. Maybe bot better (though almost certainly so) but definitely different.
There’s the quiet sneaky puppet and the loud aggressive puppet. They switch them appropriately. They’re basically there to give us something to yell at.
The other candidate would probably try to at least keep the appearances that we live in a civilized world, and that international law and treaties work. The Big Orange Turd doesn’t care for such niceties.
Things would be different, but not what we deserve. We deserve multiple political parties to choose from that represent us all. Not a duo poly holding us hostage.
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?
I’m no expert and would love to be told if this is wrong, from what I’ve heard, oil companies won’t be doing jack shit so I don’t think you will need to worry about your tax dollars reimbursing them.
Oil is barely profitable for investment at the moment.
If it was they could invest into US oil in the permian basin where there is still billions of barrels to go. Drill baby drill, I belive they say.
Investment would be much more stable in the US because fuck knows what is going to happen in venuzula in the next year, let alone in the next administration. They would probably lose it all over again.
It would be profitable for them if they get the taxpayers to cover all their expenses while keeping the gains for themselves.
It would be evil, but capitalism doesn’t care about that. They only care about what’s profitable, even if everyone else suffers as a result.
Oh, well yeah if the tax payers are tax paying then yes they are pretty fucked but I still don’t see them actually building anything.
He couldn’t even build a wall last time, she’ll be right mate.
I like your optimism, but walls don’t extract oil…
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.
Cool, we can just make a new currency. Anyone else like tally sticks?
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?
Clearly there aren’t many leftists around me
Sounds likely. I don’t know aren’t terrified of a society that glorifies unreasonable accumulation.
they are also obsessed with longevity, they want to outlive the people they exploited so they dont come after them, plus to remain relevant.
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.
I feel like we could save a lot of money on waste fraud and abuse if we threw Shitler and the Turd Reich into Lake Michigan
and the oligarchs that supported him.
No! Don’t pollute the waterways like that. There is a perfectly good zone on Venus we could launch them and they could enjoy the climate they keep working so hard to achieve.
HELL FUCKING NO
Americans really need to look into tax striking
They are looking into a tax strike , especially MAGAs, as well as a general strike .
Stop Tax Payment Now: Delay your decision to pay income tax until April 2026. Pay less or not at all.
And how does one go about doing that?
We need to start looking into French inventors of the late 18th century.
I mean… Isn’t that what taxes are?
they’re just teabagging us at this point
GG no RE
“America First”.
Lmao.
Imagine being a MAGA brainlet in 2026.
The oil companies don’t want to invest because in 10y when production recovers, who knows what oil prices will be? Even if they could pump it out tomorrow, Oil is cheap, and driving it down would bankrupt American oil production.
The logic of “addiction to foreign oil” is outdated. America is an energy exporter.
The US exports light crude, but has to import heavy crude.
Hey, um, congress? What the fuck are you waiting for?
They’re waiting on their buy options
their cut
For someone to remind them of what the consequences of an unsatisfied population are I guess
“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.
WDYM not US taxpayer problem, who paid for the special military operation, that’s supposed to enable oil corpos to “invest”?
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.
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.
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…
We thought we were going to end with techno feudalism. Turns out it’s just plain ol’ feudalism.
