• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    He didn’t kill oil, like trump seems to pretend happened.

    The oil lobby has always (like, back to the 1860s always) broken Republican and states that produce large quantities of oil have historically tilted Republican as a result.

    Biden didn’t need to kill oil. All he needed to do was be marginally less friendly than Trump or Bush. That provoked hundreds of millions in adversarial spending and billions in dark money, focused in states with big O&G industries.

    • KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      22 hours ago

      fair point, that’s probably true. Unfortunately i’m not sure how relevant it is to rhetoric in general since they’re still just lying about shit like that anyway.