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Let’s talk about when the boss shows up and photos….
Let’s talk about a debt ceiling poll….
Let’s talk about divorce, nationally….
BREAKING: Biden scores MASSIVE unexpected win
White House blasts Exxon over historical $56 bln annual profit
https://www.reuters.com/business/white-house-outraged-by-exxons-record-profits-2023-01-31/
Price gouging to the max. Yet republicans wanted to stop Biden from being able to lower gas prices by releasing oil on to the market from the strategic reserve. The republicans campaigned on lowering gas prices yet are focused on cutting Social Security / Medicare and investigating Hunter Bidens dick pics. Yet people vote for these corporate culture war toadies. Hugs
The White House on Tuesday expressed outrage on Tuesday at Exxon Mobil Corp’s record net profit in 2022 of $56 billion, a historical high not just for the company but for the entire Western oil industry.
Oil majors are expected to break their own annual records due to high prices and soaring demand, pushing their combined take to near $200 billion. The scale has brought renewed criticism of the oil industry and sparked calls for more countries to levy windfall profit taxes on the companies.
A White House statement said Exxon’s (XOM.N) profit margin was particularly galling as Americans paid record high prices at the pump. It criticized attempts by Republicans in the House of Representatives to push policies aimed at supporting the oil industry.
“The latest earnings reports make clear that oil companies have everything they need, including record profits and thousands of unused but approved permits, to increase production, but they’re instead choosing to plow those profits into padding the pockets of executives and shareholders while House Republicans manufacture excuse after excuse to shield them from any accountability,” the White House said.
President Joe Biden has blasted oil companies and refiners for much of the last year for enjoying surging profits as gasoline prices soared. In June, he Biden wrote to executives of major oil refiners and complained they had cut back on production to pad profits, according to a copy of a letter seen by Reuters.
Exxon’s CFO Kathryn Mikells responded to growing criticism over the industry’s windfall profits and suggested the answer is not increased taxes.
“We look at the EU tax on the energy sector, and you know, it’s just unlawful and bad policy trying to tax something, when what you actually need is for it to increase,” Mikells said. “It has the opposite effect of what you’re trying to achieve.”
Republicans try to take down Pete Buttigieg, FAIL miserably and Texas Paul REACTS
NHL backs down from diversity job fair posting in face of pressure from DeSantis administration
There will be no diversity or inclusion in Florida. Only straight white Christian people will be seen in society or promoted in employment. Those icky others shouldn’t be here or get jobs. Notice that DeathSantis spokes person claimed that discrimination wouldn’t be tolerated in Florida and they would stomp out the woke agenda. I asked myself what discrimination they were talking about, but reading the article it became clear that having a job fair directed to anyone but white straight people was the offence the DeathSantis administration couldn’t tolerate. What is woke that the right hates and works so hard to wipe out? It is respect for other people and other ideas. It is the new politically correct that the right fought against so hard because again it was about respecting other people and other ideas. The right / republicans can not tolerate anything / anyone that is not a clone of themselves. This is a complete regression to before the civil rights laws were passed. This is an open attempt to return or to enforce a white straight in charge society. This is repackaged white supremacy racism. This is the US attempt to create a version of South African Apartheid. Hugs
Hockey league scuttles criteria after administration criticism.The Ron DeSantis administration is able to declare victory over a major sports league, which changed plans for a diversity job fair in South Florida.
Fox News Digital first reported that the National Hockey League has abandoned plans to hold a job fair that would have opened up opportunities to various groups historically marginalized in the United States.
The so-called “Pathway to Hockey Summit,” to be held Feb. 2 in Fort Lauderdale during the NHL’s All-Star Weekend, was originally tailored to “diverse job seekers who are pursuing careers in hockey,” according to a now-deleted LinkedIn post that raised the ire of the DeSantis administration.
“Participants must be 18 years of age or older, based in the U.S., and identify as female, Black, Asian/Pacific Islander, Hispanic/Latino, Indigenous, LGBTQIA+, and/or a person with a disability. Veterans are also welcome and encouraged to attend,” asserted the previous event description, which drew the ire of a DeSantis spokesperson.
“Discrimination of any sort is not welcome in the state of Florida, and we do not abide by the woke notion that discrimination should be overlooked if applied in a politically popular manner or against a politically unpopular demographic. We are fighting all discrimination in our schools and our workplaces, and we will fight it in publicly accessible places of meeting or activity,” Bryan Griffin told Fox News Friday.
The revised posting eliminates any reference to ethnic, gender, sexual orientation, and military veteran status.
“The Pathway to Hockey Summit is a career event, especially to encourage those that historically have not been exposed to hockey and all who are interested in learning more about career opportunities in the sport.”
The NHL distanced itself from the previous language as “not accurate,” suggesting that the intent was really to reach out to people unfamiliar with hockey.
“The Pathway to Hockey Summit is an informational and networking event designed to encourage all individuals to consider a career in our game – and, in particular, alert those who might not be familiar with hockey to the opportunities it offers,” the NHL spokesperson said.
The NHL seems to have extended its deadline for registration in light of the revised criteria.
Florida’s Voice reported that the original deadline for registration was Friday the 13th, with accepted applicants to be told on Tuesday Jan. 17. The updated posting says that they will now be told a week later, on Jan. 24.
Though the wording has been changed, reminders of the previous job search remain on career boards, such as ones from the University of Southern California and the University of Pennsylvania. These postings still maintain that participants “must … identify as female, Black, Asian/Pacific Islander, Hispanic/Latino, Indigenous, LGBTQIA+, and/or a person with a disability,” or be military veterans.
DeSantis Bullies NHL Into Canceling Diversity Job Fair
Florida Politics reports:
The Ron DeSantis administration is able to declare victory over a major sports league, which changed plans for a diversity job fair in South Florida. The NHL has abandoned plans to hold a job fair that would have opened up opportunities to various groups historically marginalized in the United States.
The so-called “Pathway to Hockey Summit,” to be held Feb. 2 in Fort Lauderdale during the NHL’s All-Star Weekend, was originally tailored to “diverse job seekers who are pursuing careers in hockey,” according to a now-deleted LinkedIn post that raised the ire of the DeSantis administration.
The revised posting eliminates any reference to ethnic, gender, sexual orientation, and military veteran status. “We do not abide by the woke notion that discrimination should be overlooked,” said DeSantis spokeman Bryan Griffin to Fox News Digital.
Read the full article. Attention to the job fair was first raised by the far-right Florida’s Voice, which was founded by a January 6 attendee.
It’s “progressive discrimination” to encourage *more* people to apply than the group already mostly doing the applying? Yeah, sure, you poor straight white dudes who can’t compete.
They keep using attacks on “wokeness” in their attempts to create a White Christian nation.
I think Rick Wilson and the author of this NYTs opinion piece are underestimating deathsantis’s ability to overtake trump for the 24 rethug nomination, but they do a good job in pointing out Florida’s shitty economic and political situation: https://twitter.com/TheRick…
Most criticism of Mr. DeSantis’s national electability has been centered around his lack of charisma, which Mr. Trump crystallized by giving him the cumbersome nickname Ron DeSanctimonious. But focusing on personality and style obscures the governor’s real failings: Florida is not a model for the nation, unless the nation wants to become unaffordable for everyone except rich snowbirds.
I have to wonder how many companies & organizations are quietly moving their special meetings events to other locations? Many of them liked having such winter events scheduled in warm weather climes, but with Gov Performative Politics at the helm, how many have decided or will decide to go elsewhere? It would be interesting to see how these stunts have hurt Florida’s entertainment industry.
We’re all literally watching DeSantis take down the republic within the State of FL. At some point it will be obvious what’s going on there to the rest of the nation.
In typical Republican doublespeak, being inclusive is the real discrimination.
“The South Will Rise Again” as granny would say in the Beverly Hillbillies. I always thought that was funny growing up….not so much anymore! White supremacy coupled with christofascism, is alive and growing in America.
Extremists get power as individuals and organizations cave into their bulling. The bully gets stronger and stronger as each individual and organizations cave into their demands and the nation winds up with Trump and then DeSantis as POTUS.
I hear the term woke way more from conservatives than progressives.
Have never understood “woke” as the term these Nazis use to demonize progressives.
To be “awakened” — as in “I woke up” — is a bad thing to them?
To be “aware” is a bad thing?
It is a meaningless term conservatives use to attack and avoid having to make excuses for their insipid racism.
re the “woke goes to die” tweet .. My response:
“Nah, Floriduh is were uneducated neanderthals go for vacation, Christian Nation Indoctrination a la Kim il Jung, and MAGAts wait to die, before eternity takes them to the deepest regions of Satan’s Hell.”
Maybe the NHL needs to pull the hockey summit and All Stars Weekend out of Fort Lauderdale and move it to another location. I know it’s probably too soon at this point with all the planning involved, but I would imagine there are an awful lot of less awful places that would love to host such an event. Can they at least decide they won’t have anything to do with Florida outside of Tampa Bay Lightning or Florida Panthers games? And then make sure everyone knows DeSantis is the reason why?
Hey, a guy can dream, can’t he?
Republicans know Indoctrination beter then anyone. Freedom not so much.
Republicans CRASH AND BURN with first bill of House majority
2022 Climate Disasters Caused $165 Billion In Damage
They keep telling us that the US cannot afford to fight climate change, yet how can we continue to afford ever increasing costs that climate change is causing. Hugs
NBC News reports:
The United States experienced 18 extreme weather events last year that each caused at least $1 billion in damages, according to a report released Tuesday by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
Weather and climate disasters across the country resulted in more than $165 billion in damages in 2022, making it the third-costliest year on record, NOAA officials said.
Last year’s major disasters included three hurricanes, spring tornado outbreaks over the South and Southeast, wildfires in the western U.S., widespread drought, flooding in Kentucky and Missouri over the summer, and a spate of severe storms across the country.
Read the full article.
TexasBoy3 hours ago edited
Don’t worry the MAGAts will fix it,they just need to impeach everyone in the Biden administration….that’ll do it, right? /s
Yves R. Mektin TexasBoy3 hours ago
They also need to put on Stalin-style show trials of Anthony Fauci and a few other scientists before they hang them, and to arrest any drag queens who read books. Then the weather will be fixed.
The solution to global warming is on Hunter Biden’s laptop.
D’uh.
But the GQP doesn’t do climate change. They’d delete the files and move on to their favorite topic, which is stolen elections.
God is obviously angry because drag story time, girl’s softball, something-something…
Buttsecks!
A billion here and a billion there. It starts to add up.
Also why mainstream insurance companies are already out of southern Florid and other ‘climate risk’ areas.
We should be moving people out of risk areas and returning them to natural zones already and massively.
Better $165 billion in damage then doing anything to mitigate the problems causing The events that caused $165 billion in damage.
