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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(107,920 posts)
Sat Jun 13, 2020, 08:22 PM Jun 2020

Opinion: Trump has a surprise for Florida he's hoping to keep secret until after the election

Trump’s reelection hinges on winning a handful of tossup states in November, including Florida, where the lifelong New Yorker recently became a resident and where his beloved Mar-a-Lago resort is located.

But he also stubbornly clings to the notion that the U.S. needs to lead the world in the production of fossil fuels whose burning endangers the human habitability of much of the planet.

So he has his eye on expanding offshore drilling to the eastern Gulf of Mexico, which just happens to include the west coast of Florida, a state whose economy relies heavily on tourism (see Mar-a-Lago) and that objected so strenuously to an earlier offshore drilling plan that then-Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke backed off.

So what is an egocentric president driven to win reelection at all costs to do? Simple — don’t let Florida voters know about the new plan until two or three weeks after the November election, according to Politico.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/opinion-trump-surprise-florida-hes-201911999.html

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Opinion: Trump has a surprise for Florida he's hoping to keep secret until after the election (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jun 2020 OP
I suspect that this ploy will become "common knowledge" very soon, and then he'll lose. n/t CaliforniaPeggy Jun 2020 #1
Offshore Drilling.. I already heard about it. VIRAL IT Cha Jun 2020 #2
and republicans count on dems to ignore that 5 fla unis support global warming denial certainot Jun 2020 #3
He doesn't give a shit about fouling the Gulf coast Warpy Jun 2020 #4
His gaudy home looks like C3PO'S colon donkeypoofed Jun 2020 #5
 

certainot

(9,090 posts)
3. and republicans count on dems to ignore that 5 fla unis support global warming denial
Sat Jun 13, 2020, 11:19 PM
Jun 2020

on 20 limbaugh stations

from fakenewsradio.org
FLORIDA 20 Florida 10, Florida St. 4 Miami 2, South Florida 2, Central Florida 2

Warpy

(111,245 posts)
4. He doesn't give a shit about fouling the Gulf coast
Sat Jun 13, 2020, 11:50 PM
Jun 2020

However, let anyone put in a few relatively clean windmills within sight of his rococo horror show, he'll throw a snot slinging fit over it.

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