by Countable | 1.4.18
Greetings, Folks. Hope the first Thursday of 2018 is going well.
The Trump administration announced plans to allow offshore oil and gas drilling in nearly all U.S. waters. The reaction has been…mixed. Drill deeper into the story here.
Attorney General Jeff Sessions has rescinded Obama-era guidelines that eased the enforcement of federal marijuana laws. Can you get tossed in a federal prison for lighting a joint in a state that legalized pot? Check out our article "Justice Dept. Cracks Down on Legal Marijuana."
President Donald Trump has disbanded the commission he’d charged with investigating voter fraud. Read who he blames here.
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Listen to the governors. Work on renewable energy. A spill would not only destroy the environment but put millions out of work. What are they thinking. Oh I forgot they don’t think just pander.
More drilling will harm ecosystems and marine life. If oil breaks, it will reach to beaches and children will not be able to play on beaches. People will not be able to sunbathe in the sun or swim in the ocean. Greedy people must be stopped!!
The offshore drilling is Trump repaying big oil campaign contributors! Sessions is attempting voter suppression using enforcement of Federal marijuana laws and arresting people so they forfeit voting rights or required voting identification like drivers license. Not to mention Sessions owns lots of stock in privately operated prisons. JOIN THE BLUE WAVE AND VOTE EVERY REPUBLICAN OUT OF OFFICE!
How many times do you have to feed the oil lobbies that butter your bread ???
✊🏼Fight back NOW against plans to auction offshore drilling rights that have been off limits for decades! 🌊 Give to candidates like Brandon - to save our waters. 🌊 How much is it worth to stop this attack on coastal areas off pristine FL & CA coasts? https://www.crowdpac.com/campaigns/350896/brandon-peters
Cannabis rights are not an arbitrary matter. Drug cartels don’t have anything to do with domestic cannabis. Cannabis cures cancer, and opiate addiction.
Glad to see our government is continuing their assault on the citizens of this nation in 2018. That will allow the Resistance to maintain and build momentum going into the mid-terms in November. Off-shore drilling on all coasts? Really? Does Tillerson not get a big enough payoff from Exxon? Is Zinke out of his friggin mind? Has he run out of GOVERNMENT LAND to sell off? Now he is selling off COASTLINE? Wonder how many pockets those profits will line. Jeff Sessions and his latest attempt to impose his will and lack of values on the citizens of individual states with legal recreational marijuana reinforces the fact that he needs to be stopped. He is NOT working as the head law enforcement officer of this country. He is attempting to mold the justice system into whatever the hell he wants it to look like. His actions are unbelievably backward-looking, dangerous and deplorable. He could be the poster-child for Senate term limits. After 20 years in the gilded cage of the Capitol, he has lost touch with the reality of the country. This is not 1984 and never will be again. Then there is the man in the WH. No matter how many times he repeats it or how loudly he tweets it or how many fraudulent commissions he convenes, he will NEVER have won the popular vote in 2016 and will NEVER prove there were 3M votes illegally cast. That is not reality and, although I know it is hard for him and his minions, he has to accept it and move on. I am tired of reliving an election that occurred 14 months ago. It's a new year. We need to look forward -- to the next election and put people in DC who are willing to carry out the responsibility of checking this corrupt and out of control group of criminals. Our democracy depends on it.
Congress is broken. The only way to get anything done is through executive regulations that don’t require Congressional approval, making any environmental protections subject to the whims of the rich and their Lobbyists. If our representatives would instead listen to the will of their constituents instead of their donors, we wouldn’t have these problems. Please, everyone, do some research before you vote in November. Take a close look at where your candidate is getting his or her funding. It really is possible for the voters to get their message across.
Sirs, the need for fossil fuels needs to come to an end.
You know at least half of Fire & Fury has substance! No company, person in their right mind would hire such a person? And he sits in the oval office? Has the country, congress, citizen who voted him in gone mad? If not impeached or de-fanged soon we are headed for a debacle! Republicans have shown how low they can stoop. Time to get rid of them.
Why have federal law conflict with state law on such an arbitrary manner? This will only confuse law abiding citizens and help drug cartels!
Im surprised that Trump didn’t already expand offshore drilling
Want to minimize offshore oil? Allow offshore drilling, but add monstrous fines and the total cost of EVERY spill cleanup directly to the DRILLING CONTRACTOR. That will do it better than legislation.
Sense we are looking in to Clinton foundation, can we start looking into Trumps foundation and collage as well!
Oil, gas, and coal are technologies of the past, in addition to devastating pristine natural landscapes. Long-term economic development will benefit more from investment in clean, renewable energy.
Is there a way to identify companies that use off shore drilling? I’d like to boycott them unless it means walking everywhere.
Sessions needs to find a new career.
The oceans are already in trouble with pollution and oil spills. Leave Nature alone. No matter how safe people say it will be, the leaks still happen. We have plenty of oil . Focus on renewable energy.
Sanctuary cities will yield in the end because they’re all run by Democrats: meaning they’re fiscally challenged. THEY ALL BROKE from that progressive poisoned ideology ‼️ you ever notice how the institutions these guys run for We The People wind up broke but the ones running it do not. Most I would say are prolly millionaires , maybe a little less but Anyways my point is they know how to balance their own checkbook but not the one of the people who are paying ALL the bills and wind up losing their homes and their livelihood. May God bless you and keep you and comfort you, ALLWHO have been victims in any of these things. Can I ask you a simple and humble and very sincere question? Why do you keep voting for them? Sincerely I would like to know. Maybe some of you would also like to know. Maybe it’s ALL of US DONE BEEN DUPED on both sides of the isle. We can’t even see straight no more. God bless
Clinton Foundation everyone knows this is a corrupt illegal unethical liberal socialists Democratic PAC to support the Clinton’s and there greed for power and money. The DOJ has better end this and end the Clinton’s for good.