BREAKING: Trump administration says it won't allow oil drilling off the coast of Florida, bowing to pressure from governor.
— The Associated Press (@AP) January 9, 2018
The governor and the residents of Mar-a-Lago
— Tony Arnold (@SantaAnnaArnold) January 9, 2018
As many people pointed out, given the current economy, the oil industry was not exactly eager to start pouring money into starting the process to eventually build more offshore rigs that would inevitably draw politically explosive protests. Zinke’s Drill-Baby-Drill Statement was always intended as a slap against the blue states and their “disloyal” non-Repub voters. But getting him publicly pantsed was a win for our side, yes?…
Read my full statement on taking #Florida off the table for offshore oil and gas. Local voice matters. pic.twitter.com/fJhv0p0CDC
— Secretary Ryan Zinke (@SecretaryZinke) January 9, 2018
How, after this statement, do you justify extending the program to other states where the governors object, which is most of them? https://t.co/jH53QRSDIR
— Josh Barro (@jbarro) January 9, 2018
We'd like a word in Virginia. https://t.co/hKumvPMcV4
— Ralph Northam (@RalphNortham) January 10, 2018
New York doesn't want drilling off our coast either. Where do we sign up for a waiver @SecretaryZinke? https://t.co/dt1rJAEna1
— Andrew Cuomo (@NYGovCuomo) January 10, 2018
Dear Secretary Zinke, California like Florida, has hundreds of miles of beautiful coastline and a governor who wants to keep it that way. Or is that not enough for blue states? https://t.co/vQ5Qtl8Xik
— Adam Schiff (@RepAdamSchiff) January 10, 2018
This is the view from Trump National Golf Club Los Angeles (in Rancho Palos Verdes). Would Pres Trump enjoy having an oil rig right out there? pic.twitter.com/QNvyCgIdad
— Tom Herron (@gifuoh) January 10, 2018
SO YOU ARE EXEMPTING THE STATE THAT IS HOME TO THE FESTERING CANKEROUS CONFLICT OF INTEREST THAT THE ADMINISTRATION LIKES TO CALL THE "WINTER WHITE HOUSE" AND NONE OF THE OTHER AFFECTED STATES??????? GO LOOK UP "BANANA REPUBLIC" THEN GO FLY A ZINKE FLAG TO CELEBRATE MAKING US ONE
— Walter Shaub (@waltshaub) January 10, 2018
Sab
Florida voted for this guy, so its only fair that they get drilling off their coast.
Gin & Tonic
Walter in NFLTG mode. You go, dude!
Immanentize
@Gin & Tonic: Thinking the same thing. All caps — he is rather peeved, I suspect.
Major Major Major Major
@Gin & Tonic: @Immanentize: I was also surprised.
Is making rules like this legal?
Jeffro
@Gin & Tonic: I know, right? The man is (pleasantly, awesomely) SHRILL!
Betty Cracker
How has Zinke been publicly pantsed? It’s obvious to us that Florida was “taken off the table” to reward the state for voting for Trump and perhaps bolster Governor Batboy’s chances of winning a senate race (if he runs). But the bottom line is, the other coasts are still at risk, and the Trump administration is impervious to shame, so I doubt that pointing out the hypocrisy here will change policy. What am I missing?
Jeffro
Making an exception for the home state of the ‘winter scuzz house’ and its Republican governor, with no review whatsoever, means that this drilling nonsense will go nowhere.
Love the Northam tweet, though – you go, Gov!
Roger Moore
@Sab:
In Trump world, voting for him gives your state an exemption from his policies, which gives you a perfect snapshot of what those policies are really about.
Sab
@Major Major Major Major: We are so past laws and whats legal.
JMG
The attorney generals of every other state with a coastline have just been given a massive gift as they head to various federal district courts.
Betty Cracker
@JMG: Okay, that makes sense.
Major Major Major Major
@Sab: That’s not true.
schrodingers_cat
@Betty Cracker: Word. Even banana republics have better standards.
ETA: This is yet another shot in the Republican war against the blue states.
Sab
My oldest grandaughter eas born after 9/11. Yet she will have to pay for the rest of her life for our insane reactions to it. Everything we did was wrong and reactive. But I will die comfortably of old age illnesses, and she is seriously at risk from our stupid actionns abd reactions.
SFAW
Libtard snowflake Whiny Walter Shaub is whining again about President-for-Life Idiot Amin Dondon exercising his not-at-all-unconstitutional powers (via True American Patriot Ryan Hinky) to help people deserving that help, such as the WWC denizens of Mar-a-Lago. SAD!
schrodingers_cat
@Betty Cracker: Let’s see what coverage this gets in the news. The TPS revocation was a mere blip in the media radar. Upending the lives of a half a million people is no big deal (250,000 beneficiaries and their US citizen children)
the Conster, la Citoyenne
So the question of how Trump would attack DiFi has been answered. She’s “sneaky”. LOL. Is that a code word for “Jewish”? I’m not up on my slurs.
schrodingers_cat
@the Conster, la Citoyenne: Probably. According to white supremacists everything from civil rights to women’s rights and even the Nationality and Immigration Act of 1965 is a Jewish plot.
sherparick
@Major Major Major Major: Warning reference to a very old movie “Treasure of the Sierra Madre” – This is like asking the bandits in the that movie for their badges: “Badges, badges – We don’t need no stinking badges!!!” This group of bandits don’t need any stinking laws.
SFAW
@schrodingers_cat:
The only surprise is that this hasn’t yet made it into a Shitgibbon-storm (i.e., Shitgibbon tweetstorm). But the day is young. (Well, in Hawaii.)
laura
@the Conster, la Citoyenne: she’s sneaky, she’s not blond/on a couch/on Fox, uses “words,” she doesn’t have a peener, shares views and opinions while white men are present “white manning.”
Burn her.
schrodingers_cat
@SFAW: Hawaii? I has a jealous. I thought you were a fellow Masshole.
The Moar You Know
If there is for-real drilling anywhere off the California coast, Trump will have an armed uprising on his tiny hands.
Major Major Major Major
@sherparick: illegal executive actions can be stopped by courts, as several already have ?
SFAW
@schrodingers_cat:
I am. I was just using Hawaii as a location where it’s still early in the day. Of course, given the sleep patterns of cats — two of our three are sleeping within 10 feet of me — I guess it could be early in the day for you. (Kidding — I know it isn’t.)
But if I ever make it to Hawaii, I’ll let you know. I think I once flew within 5000 miles of it, does that count?
Jim, Foolish Literalist
executive time for Second Breakfast?
gonna get you one of them California trump democrats to take her down!
(Seriously, though, what a gift to give her a nickname and portray her as a leader of the Resistance)
azlib
@JMG:
Absolutely, unless Florida can show it is somehow unique from all the other state shorelines involved.
Sab
@Major Major Major Major: I hope and pray that you are right and that I am a fool.
dmsilev
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: She’s not really in much danger in the primary. I think most of the challengers were just positioning themselves in case she chose to retire.
kindness
Hippie Punching is this White House’s policy position though. They should write it down though to be honest.
The Moar You Know
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: That’s actually kind of an awesome nickname. And the only thing DiFi has to worry about is age; her seat is possibly the safest in the nation.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@dmsilev: I thought DeLeon (sp?) was polling pretty well against her?
kindness
@The Moar You Know: – Given a good Democratic primary opponent and I will vote for the opponent. DiFi was great yesterday but she’s is in reality a liberal to moderate Republican, not a Democrat. But Republicans don’t get elected in SF city races where she made her start so……
Ian G.
Shit like this is why I occasionally give thoughts to secession for the northeast. I mean, however much I may have despised the presidency of George W. Bush, I never thought his administration was going out of its way to take revenge on states that voted against him. That’s what this and the tax plan are all about.
Sab
@schrodingers_cat: Totally off topic but you bowed out of an unpleasant thread you were in a couple of days ago. I thought you were bailing from BJ altogether, and I was distraught. You are free to do what you want, but be aware that that will have consequences. People you have never seen or heard have read your comments for years and will very much miss your voice. Just saying. Don’t go without a lot of thought.
Villago Delenda Est
@schrodingers_cat: 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments, too.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
OT: I’m not much of a Bond aficionado (that spelling doesn’t look right, but I’ll leave it to autocorrect), but this is a pretty funny thread
Mnuchin you’d almost think is doing it on purpose, but my favorite is the Kellyanne one
Roger Moore
OT, but it sounds as if Darrel Issa is retiring. I guess he understood what “mene, mene, tekel, upharsin” means.
Yarrow
@Gin & Tonic: @Immanentize: He is:
LOL
Enhanced Voting Techniques
@the Conster, la Citoyenne: I was more amused by the bit were Donny Dotard was demanding the Dems primary her for not supporting him.
Kay
Sure he is, unless someone who is actually interested in investigating something intervenes again.
Maybe Feinstein will inspire others to do their jobs. It’s not scary! She survived!
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Kay: I find this argument very odd. I think in one of the Grassley office statements they said it would make “voluntary” testimony difficult. Okay. But don’t they have subpoena power? Especially over an executive branch employee ?
schrodingers_cat
@Sab: Thanks so much for saying this. I did not read or comment on Balloon Juice the rest of that day. I have been commenting on Balloon Juice since 2009 but I have received more invective in the last year than previous years combined. I have also been more vocal and outspoken, so it could be that.
I should probably take more breaks away from the political cray cray, but I will certainly not stop speaking up, no matter what other people have to say. Either on this forum or elsewhere.
SFAW
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
Most of them were OK, not great. But the Doocy/Kilmeade, Graham, and Possum Queen matches were pretty awesome.
The Sheriff Clarke thing was OK, but what stood out most for me was that he was giving something pretty close to a “WP” hand signal. I know he’s a moron, but is he also that fucking clueless? [“Why are you lynching me? I’m one of the ‘good’ Negroes!”]
AM in NC
Every single Democratic candidate at both state and national levels in the eastern part of purple N.C. should be beating this story like a drum. Coastal interests are so powerful in our state legislature that they get to set the state’s school calendar to ensure maximum tourist time at the beach each summer. And it is a very Republican part of the state. National GOP threatening their coastline is a great wedge issue to use against them (especially when Fla. gets a pass).
The Lodger
@schrodingers_cat: If you’re looking for a Jewish plot, here’s the place.
JustRuss
@kindness:
Pretty sure being honest isn’t on the White House’s agenda.
J R in WV
@schrodingers_cat:
Schrodingers_cat, know that while I don’t always agree with you (ask my wife, I don’t agree 100% with anyone!) I will always support your right to express your opinions here on BJ, and I think everyone else will also.
Sometimes in these hard times when we disagree we flip the outrage switch and go off on someone we disagree with 5%, rather than with those we disagree with 95%. I sometimes do this, especially at 2 am. I’m better than I was, but still can explode with invective. (Hi, Corner Stone! F U too!)
Don’t take it too seriously. We know that you decided to join the USA recently, since the 2016 election. That’s a very serious commitment, that is, and we all thank you for the vote of confidence!