• givesomefucks@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    Because, like a lot of Biden policies, they are wins on paper but have little to no impact on voters daily lives.

    It’s not new either.

    Biden makes big promises, fails miserably, makes a token gesture, and then people claim he’s the best ever…

    At a Glasgow climate summit in 2021, the Biden administration offered a commitment to the world: The United States would stop the public financing of oil and gas projects. There would be no more American tax dollars for new natural gas pipelines or wells, the White House said

    The pledge drew praise from climate change activists. But there was one big problem—it was an empty promise.

    In the years since Glasgow, the US has continued to finance fossil fuel projects around the world. The latest example came Thursday, when the US Export-Import Bank finalized a plan to guarantee part of the financing for a $4.2 billion revitalization of natural gas production in the nation of Bahrain. The move—which comes just weeks after the Biden administration triumphantly announced a freeze on the domestic development of new projects designed to export liquified natural gas—will include the construction of dozens of gas wells and 450 new oil wells. It will bring online as much as 5.2 trillion cubic feet of natural gas, or about five years of additional gas production at Bahrain’s current levels.

    https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2024/03/biden-promised-not-to-finance-fossil-fuels-so-why-is-the-us-backing-a-huge-gas-project/

    To quote Kendrick:

    The audience not dumb

    Shape the stories how you want, hey, Drake, they’re not slow

    Biden, his campaign, and his supporters don’t realize people can just fact check this shit from their phones in two seconds. Voters aren’t as stupid as they keep acting we are.

    If we were, we’d probably be voting Republican…

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      we were, we’d probably be voting Republican…

      Its clear from how Biden has managed his 2024 campaign he’d rather Republicans as supporters, so that tracks.

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      That’s probably why they don’t seem interested in advertising Biden’s “accomplishments”… Instead just beating that Trump bad drum all day everyday