Hey, if we all club together we could get through the first few stages of getting our own windfarm approved and then Trump could pay us a billion to cancel and we all walk away with a share.
Who’s in?
The Art of the Deal
Submitted 3 weeks ago by slaacaa@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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Denjin@feddit.uk 3 weeks ago
Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
And then build it anyways.
ThePantser@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Well yea, that’s what we need the billion for.
TrickDacy@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I feel like in that case laws would suddenly exist for billionaires again, for just that case. “You defrauded the government!!”
prettybunnys@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
… Hookers and Blackjack?
howrar@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
Bring the money to Canada and build it here!
Mongostein@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
You take the billion bucks, fold the company, start a new company, and build more windmills!
vivalapivo@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
Count me in
areakode@riskeratspizza.com 3 weeks ago
Slovene85@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Wait, was Tony a pedo?
Cossty@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Just a criminal, racist, homophobe, murderer, misogynist. And I don’t doubt that his character could off-camera “fuck” some 17 year olds. So, pretty close to Trump on all accounts minus the incoherent ramblings.
boonhet@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
I think that was referring to Trump exclusively. I do not remember Tony being a pedo, nor do I know of any accusations towards James Gandolfini himself
Lagviper@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
This is beyond stupidity.
China will be decades ahead in energy with these moronic decisions and eventually that’s also proportional to AI scalability.
lechekaflan@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
The more America becomes the villain, the more it is causing other countries to realign to the Middle Kingdom.
snoons@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
I never realised how tiny Winnie the Pooh’s hands are until now.
BoJackHorseman@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
China has the mandate of heaven
Quexotic@infosec.pub 2 weeks ago
This is simply treason.
gizmonicus@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Will be?
m3t00@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
fortunately everything isn’t run by federal decree. as much as they wish. setbacks are not permanent but when the factory down the street shuts down, they lose support.
ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online 3 weeks ago
I have an idea… Take the money… And then do it anyway. That’s what he did countless times in his life
Wispy2891@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
The terms are that the trump admin will give them the Money only if/when that french company builds a gigaproject on fossil fuels. And it’s 99.9% sure that he will change his taco mind on that when it’s time to open the wallet
ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online 2 weeks ago
Ahh so then they should pull their pants down (and their underwear) and say ‘do me like you did Bill Clinton and then we’ll talk!’
m3t00@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
starman2112@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
[deleted]tetris11@feddit.uk 2 weeks ago
Easiest question to shut them up: “Would you rather live next to a wind turbine, or an oil refinery?”
poop@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
coming from the same people that wouldn’t hesitate to sell yosemite to a megacorp.
DetectiveNo64@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
Many things wrong with them.
echodot@feddit.uk 2 weeks ago
What’s hilarious about all this is if you actually go there and look out to see you can barely even see the wind turbines.
kerrigan778@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
As a huge metal fan I love this but as a wind power fan I regret to inform you those aren’t made of metal, they’re composite, metal is weigh too heavy and expensive.
slaacaa@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
The Trump administration announced it will pay nearly $1 billion to French energy giant TotalEnergies in exchange for the company abandoning plans to build offshore wind farms in the Atlantic Ocean and instead pursue fossil fuel projects in the US.
Mog_fanatic@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Just to be clear, this money was already spent by the previous administration on federal leases that were going to be used to build these offshore farms. The government will now be reimbursing the company the money it spent on those leases. Not quite just paying the company to not do something like the headline makes it seem. But that’s now $1 billion that could certainly be put to better use elsewhere that will be wasted paying this company back.
It’s also embarrassingly short sided for a myriad of reasons but that doesn’t matter anymore. We’re great again!
rizzothesmall@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
I would like to throw my hat in the ring and say that I will not build a wind farm for a mere $500M
Skankhunt420@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
shit, I won’t do it if they call it square on my medical bills.
I’m a cheap date.
brown567@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Again the ever quixotic Don tilts at windmills! Onward, Rocinante!
merdaverse@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Apparently, this has been going on for a while! archive.is/9BNsM
AnchoriteMagus@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
STOP GIVING AWAY OUR MONEY, FUCKO
youcantreadthis@quokk.au 3 weeks ago
Stop paying taxes, fucking mark.
AnchoriteMagus@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Yeah, cause drawing a giant federal target on my back during the most oppressive, likely-to-murder-Americans regime in our history is a good idea.
Got any other Shark Tank worthy gems for us?
starman2112@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
I will gladly update my W-4 to stop withholding federal taxes as soon as you manage to convince everyone else in Kansas to do the same
starman2112@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
The Interior Department hailed the “innovative agreement” with the French energy giant and said, “the American people will no longer pay for ideological subsidies that benefited only the unreliable and costly offshore wind industry.″
I want these ghouls to not be alive anymore man
xia@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
Shoot… I would have not built a wind farm for only a million!
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
You’re killing the market with your undercutting. If we’re going to be Not Building Oligarchs, we have to implement price fixing. Nobody can go under $750 million.
BoJackHorseman@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
American farmers are paid to not grow crops to keep crop prices high lol
EmpathicVagrant@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Let’s not build one for $1B and put it toward actual infrastructure, covering states in the order they joined the union.
ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online 2 weeks ago
For 500,000$ I also would swear not to ever build a wind farm!
axexrx@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Think theyll pay my company to not install the ~4M in solar we have lined up?
Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
BCsven@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
Won’t anyone think about the oil?
wjrii@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Also, won’t anyone think about the fact that Trump literally makes energy policy based on the fact that he thinks wind turbines are ugly?
bearboiblake@pawb.social 3 weeks ago
Take the money and use it to fund renewables anyways. Trump loves breaching terms of contracts, I’m sure he’d be cool with it.
WolfmanEightySix@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
From the guy that promised to lower the price of everything.
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
For himself.
roserose56@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
like who cares? let USA if they want, not a problem of the rest of the world. When you start a war, don’t expect others to help you.
spicehoarder@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Climate change is everyone’s problem.
roserose56@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Not anymore. It’s only problem for the rest of the world. If MR president does not like it, then they won’t get perks like wind farms.
They normalized pedophilia, and now they normalizing wars, at some point people are this is fine, lets wait mid terms, right? They don’t care about climate change.BanMe@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Yeah but the climate change wars will not go the way the Americans think they will. It’ll topple itself by sheer virtue of its geographic size once the real shit hits the fan, and the former allies will be there with puppet warlords ready to carve up the interior.
Is how I’m putting that in my “looking for in retirement” section of the ol’ Grindr profile
rabber@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
It’s a problem for Canada lmao
Earthman_Jim@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Yes and no. It opens up a lot of land and minerals to us, we’re just not to morally bankrupt as to take advantage like some demented orange fucks.
Folks closer to the equator are truly fucked. Say bye bye to Jabba’s Palace ie Mar-A-Lago, not that Donald the Demented will be around much longer anyway.
roserose56@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
It’s a problem for Canada lmao
Canada stands for it self I think, and last time I saw the news, Ontario was threatening to cut power to the US. How is this a problem to Canada?
Also Elbows Up!
Fishnoodle@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Hey I’m not going to build windmills either, where the fuck is my check?
Blackmist@feddit.uk 3 weeks ago
He really is still salty Scotland built some and spoiled the view off his golf course.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 2 weeks ago
He heard it called a wind farm and thinks they produce wind there.
Sylvartas@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
You might be onto something. Isn’t wind a pretty big annoyance for golfers ? And we’re talking about the guy who watched a solar eclipse with his bare eyes here.
Jaimesmith@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Paying not to build something feels like the most expensive way to do nothing.
BoJackHorseman@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
Tell that to American farmers who are paid to not farm
ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
It’s to build fossil fuel plants instead.
Squirrelsdrivemenuts@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
They are not really getting paid, they are getting the money back they paid for windfarm permits and in exchange they have to invest the money in oil and gas in the US.
purplerabbit@piefed.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
WHY IS THIS LEGAL?!
Honytawk@discuss.tchncs.de 2 weeks ago
Accept.
Then use the money to build an even bigger solar farm.
ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
It’s contingent on building fossil fuel plants.
Mulligrubs@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Now the French will learn that Trump never pays his bills, the check is in the mail so to speak
Oh, it’s not his money? I got nothing
Th3D3k0y@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Pay them 1 billion, they pay someone else 900 million to do it instead. +100 million profits
roserose56@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Live your myth in USA! USA! USA! USA! Let’s go Trump! Trump! Mid terms!!
youcantreadthis@quokk.au 3 weeks ago
If you pay american taxes you are guilty.
Dont ruin literally everything. Tell irs to fuck itself.
beerclue@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Is this notheonion?
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 2 weeks ago
So hold on, doesn’t this mean that companies can just threaten to build wind turbines and get a bunch of bribes? Any sensible businessman would immediately spin up 500 companies to do this as fast as possible.
BigMacHole@thelemmy.club 3 weeks ago
Phew! Good! This WAR has Taught me the LAST thing I want my Tax Dollars going towards is Energy that our Enemies DONT Control!
-Republicans!
IAmYouButYouDontKnowYet@reddthat.com 3 weeks ago
Usas economy relies on other countries use of oil.
USA is going to collapse once the world wakes up to fact it’s played out like a Mafia neighborhood.
krisevol@lemmus.org 3 weeks ago
They rely on other countries using the Petrodollar, not buying oil. Once other countries move to another currency America will go bankrupt, and that isn’t speculation, it’s very much reality. America is doing everything to stop this.
It won’t work though, the talk have already started happening. Americans better get used to the a lower standard is living because it’s going to be impossible to increase moving standards under the current debt.
Objection@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
Bold of you to assume they don’t see France as an enemy.