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1/ So angry. First, this is what "elections have consequences" really looks like. In addition to big stuff like wars and Liberation Day tariffs, the whole vast US machinery of state is now working everywhere, on everything, to make the world worse in every way. Thanks guys.

Hetan Shah@hetanshah.bsky.social

‘President Trump had called the plan [to reduce shipping emissions] a "green scam" and representatives of his administration had threatened countries with tariffs if they had voted in favour.’ www.bbc.com/news/article...

2/ The US sabotaging this over "price rises for consumers" is riseable given their entire policy agenda is inflationary as hell. Pretty sure tariffs and spiking the price of oil and gas for months is going to hit grocery bills harder than an emission standard the industry itself supported.

3/ Tariff threat arm twisting the small island states facing existential threats from climate change into voting against this is some Saturday morning cartoon villain shit. If someone was doing this in a CW show you'd say it was lazy writing.

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It's increasingly clear that industry interests and at least some billionaires' interest have become completely counter-aligned. Trump is not a capitalist, he's a an immoral businessman with autocratic powers. His ilk have inspired the guillotine, and he should be exiled to some rock in the ocean.

Trump will be out for Trump dollar, but I'd guess someone somewhere in the administration will also be thinking petrodollar hegemony and how the US survives the death of that.

This is the real kicker, they aren’t just doing evil shit at the behest of their corporate overlords, they’re doing evil shit just for the sake of it that the corporates don’t even want them to do!! Insane clown posse..