Comments by "" (@DavidJ222) on "Andrew Gillum: I'd be a governor who believes in science" video.

  1. I'm sure we all remember the catastrophic 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil incident in the Gulf of Mexico. I still remember watching the 24hr live video stream of thousands of gallons of oil being dumped into the gulf. Well days before the Trump administration unveiled its plans for a massive expansion of offshore drilling, it moved to gut the Production Safety Systems Rule, a set of safety regulations the Obama administration created pertaining to maintenance of offshore platforms. The changes, finalized last month and slated to take effect on Dec. 27, loosen notification and certification rules for oil companies and toss out a requirement that offshore equipment be designed to withstand the most extreme weather and pressure conditions. In May, Trump took aim at the Well Control Rule, a safety monitoring regulation meant to prevent the kind of Deepwater Horizon incident that killed 11 workers and resulted in some 200 million gallons of crude oil leaking into the Gulf of Mexico. The rule requires additional inspection and maintenance of blowout preventers, a device designed to automatically seal a well, and stop an uncontrolled release of oil and gas. Stripping the Obama era  regulations would loosen the inspection and oversight requirements for this equipment. Trump's reckless, irresponsible, and controversial drilling plan called “energy dominance” would make available for oil and gas leasing, roughly 90 percent of the U.S. Outer Continental Shelf, including large swaths of the Arctic, Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. The Interior Department, led by Secretary Ryan Zinke, who's currently under multiple ethics investigations is leading the charge for Trump's plan. The Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement estimates that rolling back these safety regulations would save oil companies just shy of $1 billion over a 10-year period. I mean sure,  it could lead to another Deepwater Horizon catastrophe. It could result in the loss of lives again. It could cost fishermen their entire livelihoods again. But who cares,  just as long as billion dollar oil companies can save millions of dollars, that's on top of the millions they're already saving from the massive tax cuts Trump gifted them.  Now that's what I call MAGA!!! 😔
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  2. Remember that massive tax cut for corporations and the most wealthy that Trump and republicans passed? The tax cut that they celebrated with a big photo op with Trump in outside the white house? The tax cut for the wealthy that majority of Americans were against, but they passed it anyway? Well McConnell announced last week that Republicans are working on a plan to cut social security, medicare,  and Medicaid in order to pay for it.  Now if THAT....isn't enough to make you vote Blue, 💙 then you deserve to lose your social security.
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