#doug burgum

[saywhat-politics]

The former North Dakota governor will play a key role in carrying out President Donald Trump’s pro-fossil-fuel, anti-renewable-energy vision.

The Senate voted Thursday to confirm former North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum as President Donald Trump’s secretary of the Interior Department. 

At the helm of the massive federal agency, Burgum will be responsible for managing 500 million acres of federal land ― roughly one-fifth of the United States — including 63 national parks, as well as conserving imperiled species and honoring the government’s trust responsibilities for more than 500 federally recognized tribes.

[politicaldilfs]

2024 Gubernatorial DILFs

1st: Incumbent Renominated Gubernatorial DILFS -- Phil Scott, Greg Gianforte, Spencer Cox

Scott and Gianforte are the cream of the crop. Cox is just barely daddy-ish for me. Although, he's anti-Trump which helps. Still, he doesn't hold a candle to his opponent, Brian King:

If we were voting on looks alone, mine would go: Scott, Gianforte, and King.

2nd: Retiring/Term-Limited Incumbent Gubernatorial DILFs

Jay Inslee, Chris Sununu, Doug Burgum, Jim Justice, Eric Holcomb, John Carney, Mike Parson, Roy Cooper

And finally, the remaining DILFs in the 2024 U.S. gubernatorial elections:

North Dakota -- Kelly Armstrong < Merrill Piepkorn

Washington -- Bob Ferguson < Dave Reichert

Delaware -- Matt Meyer > Michael Ramone

West Virginia -- Patrick Morrisey < Steve Williams

And the remaining DILF candidates:

Josh Stein, Mike Kehoe, Mike Braun

[xiaq]

It is absolutely wild to me how Republican news outlets and politicians try to sensationalize things that don't even exist. Yet these fabricated issues are having serious disastrous effects on real-life people's health and safety. B was just talking to one of his old "friends" and he was trying to convince us to donate to the campaign of a governor whose platform rests primarily on anti-trans legislation. And B was like...no?? Are you aware of his platform? And this guy says, with absolute confidence, that this governor's platform is about protecting kids. Because it's ok if an adult wants to mutilate their body, but we shouldn't be allowing doctors to surgically change children's bodies. Which is why gender-affirming care should be illegal.

The mental gymnastics. Except he genuinely thought that "gender-affirming care" was synonymous with "surgical intervention." Gender-affirming care for a 10-year-old is therapy and support and letting them wear the clothes and use the pronouns/name they want. Gender-affirming care for a teenager might also include blockers and/or hormone therapy (or not! I've only known one person who started hormones before they turned 18, and I specifically worked with queer kids when I was a professor/teacher). For some people, gender-affirming care is solely external and doesn't involve physical intervention at all. And it is so, extremely, rare for someone to receive surgery as part of gender-affirming care when they are a minor. Yet this is what so many people seem to think gender-affirming care means. Surgery.

This is not an accident. This is targeted and malicious. This is misdirection by people who know better trying to sway the opinions of people who don't. Listen. I don't know what my point is, here. I just needed to vent. I guess it just goes to show that, now more than ever, if you're going to get into a debate with someone, make sure you understand what they mean when they use certain terminology or you're certain to get nowhere. Because this man was so confident he knew what he was talking about until we did a quick vocabulary backtrack. And when confronted with the fact that maybe he hadn't, actually, been fed the truth, he suddenly had a lot less to say. Ugh.

[deadpresidents]

Did Trump appoint anyone to his cabinet that isn't 100% crazy?

I disagree with Marco Rubio politically, but he's smart and a relatively normal choice for Secretary of State. He'll be easily confirmed by a wide, bipartisan margin. Doug Burgum makes some sense as Energy Secretary, although everyone should obviously be concerned about his deep business ties in the oil and energy sector. But he was Governor of North Dakota, and he's certainly more qualified for the Cabinet than the vast majority of Trump's nominees. Linda McMahon would make a lot more sense if she had been Trump's choice for Commerce Secretary -- she was probably one of the better Cabinet members during his first term when she was director of the Small Business Administration -- but not as Secretary of Education.

[nodynasty4us]

Who will Trump choose for VP? (final round)

I had to delete the first version of this because I accidentally set it for only one day and I misspelled a name.

This does not necessarily mean who you would prefer, just who you think is most likely to get the nod.

These choices are the high scorers in the preliminary round of polls, names leaked by the Trump campaign to several news outlets earlier this week, and a couple of people mentioned by one columnist after the preliminary polls began.

As always, please reblog this poll so that more people have the opportunity to vote in it.

[contemplatingoutlander]

These moments totally happened at the GOP primary debate

WaPo satirist Alexandra Petri add her spin on the Republican primary debate. This is a gift 🎁 link so that those who do not subscribe to The Washington Post can read the entire article. Below are some excerpts. Enjoy! 😁

If you said, “Would you like to watch Ron DeSantis, Vivek Ramaswamy, Nikki Haley, Tim Scott, Doug Burgum, Mike Pence, Asa Hutchinson and Chris Christie talk to each other for two hours? FYI, the place where they’ll do so is hotter than Beelzebub’s armpit!,” I would have said, “No, thank you.” But if you said, “The alternative is watching Donald Trump talk to Tucker Carlson on the website formerly known as Twitter,” I would say, “I can’t wait to hear what Ron, Vivek, Nikki, Tim, Doug, Mike, Asa and Chris have to say!” [...] Here is approximately how it went. Bret Baier: Hello. We have brought a bell just because we enjoy the sound of a bell. Martha MacCallum: Feel free to speak over it; it will give the evening a fun, musical vibe. Baier: Yes, and speaking of music, candidates, the number one song in America is something called “Rich Men North of Richmond”! Governor DeSantis, introduce yourself by providing a close reading of the subtle lyrics of this song. DeSantis: Hang on, first I have some prepared remarks! Joe Biden’s basement! Hunter Biden’s paintings! “Rich Men North of Richmond”! Taxes! Florida! Baier: Chris Christie, why would you be better as president? Christie: Bret, I have spent the last four years sailing around sharpening my traffic-cone harpoon for my hated foe (from hell’s heart I spit my last breath at him!), and the one question I did not expect was about a scenario where I could actually become president. Uh, I was governor of New Jersey? So, take that for what it’s worth.

[See more under the cut.]

Scott: I have come to this debate with some specific numbers at my fingertips! I was told everyone would be excited about specific numbers! If not, I would really like those hours back. Ramaswamy: Hello! You may be wondering, who is this skinny guy with a funny name? I’m not a politician who is going to offer you a series of prepared, meaningless platitudes. I’m a businessman with no political experience who is going to offer you a series of prepared, meaningless platitudes. Isn’t it time we stopped running away from things and started running toward things? I am not running for president so much as I am running for the title of Favorite Grandson of your Fox News grandmother. Have you ever considered that people don’t love God anymore? [...] Pence: Hello! I am here to recite scripture and keep referring to the Trump-Pence administration, and I’m all out of scripture. That was some Mike Pence humor; I will never be out of scripture! I am unquestionably the best-prepared person in this race, the single individual with the experience that is closest to being the president, with no exceptions that spring to mind. I have been in the hallway. I have been in the White House. Do you like what my administration did with the Supreme Court? [...] Ramaswamy: You think now is the time for incremental reform. I think it is the time for actual revolution. Pence: Good Lord, no thank you. I do not have any revolutionary proposals. I believe in mild, small, incremental change. Except for a nationwide 15-week ban on abortion, which I want to implement because I promised it to God. Haley: Let’s be realistic! Women hate hearing this. Let’s just admit that it will never happen. But we’re all going to say we want it to happen! But, ladies, it’s not going to happen. [...] Young Person: Please tell me that anyone on this stage believes in climate change, the only issue I care about because I anticipate living on this planet for at least 60 years. I am starting to get worried. Can we have a show of hands? DeSantis: No! We are not schoolchildren! We will not raise our hands or acknowledge the existence of science! Ramaswamy: As the only one on this stage who is not bought and paid for, I have a thought. Christie: I have had enough of a guy who sounds like ChatGPT and stole his opening gambit from Barack Obama. I came here to bludgeon Donald Trump verbally, but Trump is not here and I have a lot of verbal bludgeoning built up. [...] Baier: Why do we have homelessness, drugs and crime? Pence: Because Democrats talked about defunding the police, and everyone knows that if you say “Defund the police!” into a mirror three times, crime appears. It’s just science, or, as Governor DeSantis and I prefer, religion. Christie: I disagree. Crime went up because Hunter Biden did it.

Please use the gift link above to read the rest of Petri's cutting satire.

Just one thing I would like to comment on though. I grew up in NJ... BEYOND the exits on the Turnpike. Why does there always have to be a NJ joke?🤦🏻‍♀️There really are nice parts of NJ. Really. I mean it. 😉

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[profeminist]

"North Dakota on Monday adopted one of the strictest anti-abortion laws in the country as Republican Gov. Doug Burgum signed legislation banning the procedure throughout pregnancy, with slim exceptions up to six weeks’ gestation.

In those early weeks, abortions would only be allowed in cases of rape or incest, or in medical emergencies. After six weeks, rape and incest victims cannot get abortions. Abortions to treat some medical emergencies, such as ectopic pregnancies, are allowed at any stage of pregnancy."

"After six weeks, rape and incest victims cannot get abortions."

Read the full piece here: https://apnews.com/article/abortion-north-dakota-six-week-ban-2bccde2925d30dd4772aaed84f3c2d98

U.S. readers, register to vote here

GET ANGRY, STAND UP: In Oklahoma, a woman was told to wait until she's 'crashing' for abortion care

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Judd Legum at Popular Information:

In recent days, several high-profile Republican political figures have traveled to the Manhattan Criminal Court, where Donald Trump is on trial. Outside the courthouse, they addressed the media and attacked key witnesses, the jury, and even the judge's daughter.  The comments by Trump's Republican allies are nearly identical to attacks that Trump has made previously in interviews and social media posts. But Judge Juan Merchan has ruled that, in so doing, Trump violated the gag order he imposed to preserve the integrity of the trial. Merchan has already fined Trump for violating the gag order 10 times and has warned that future violations could result in incarceration.

Merchan's order prohibits Trump from "directing others to make public statements about known or reasonably foreseeable witnesses." The order also prohibits Trump from directing others to attack the jury, the court staff, or family members. Asked on Tuesday if he directed the Republicans to speak about the trial on his behalf, Trump described them as his "surrogates" and praised them for "speaking very beautifully." Trump has also entered the courthouse flanked by his surrogates, effectively giving them his imprimatur. If Trump directed his surrogates to speak, their comments could constitute criminal contempt of the gag order by Trump.  Trump’s attorneys challenged the legitimacy of the gag order, but the New York Supreme Court rejected his argument on Tuesday. A five-judge panel found that Judge Merchan appropriately balanced "the competing considerations of [Trump's] First Amendment rights to free expression and the effective functioning of the judicial, prosecutorial, and defense processes."

The red tie brigade

On Monday, Senator J.D. Vance (R-OH), Congresswoman Nicole Malliotakis (R-NY), and Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) addressed the media in front of the courthouse. On Tuesday, House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA), North Dakota Governor Doug Burgum (R), Congressman Byron Donalds (R-FL), former presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy (R), and Congressman Cory Mills (R-FL) did the same. Tuesday's group, in an apparent show of solidarity, wore Trump's signature blue suit and red tie. 

[...] Prosecutors could have difficulty, however, proving that these comments were given at Trump's direction. None of the Republican officials are subject to Merchan's order, so the only conduct at issue would be whatever direction Trump provided, if any, behind the scenes.  Trump's acolytes are making a tough task a bit easier. Tuberville, in an appearance on Newsmax, admitted that he traveled to New York to help Trump "overcome this gag order." Turberville said that he and other Trump supporters were there to "represent" Trump and speak "for President Trump." Similarly, Vance acknowledged that he came to Manhattan specifically to say what Trump “is prevented from saying."

In recent days, Trump sycophants such as J.D. Vance, Vivek Ramaswamy, and Doug Burgum have traveled to Manhattan to show solidarity for criminal defendant Donald Trump, where the People of New York v. Trump case is being tried.

See Also:

Dean Obeidallah: Trump must be held in Contempt for directing MAGA allies to violate Gag Order!

[lechusza]

Get ready

America, meet your new Secretary of the Interior. It's not just about energy - think about it. President-elect Donald Trump said last night he plans to nominate North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum to be Interior secretary. #politics #trump #news #burgum #interior

[tomorrowusa]

Evoking The Godfather, Trump seeks a Vice-Don at Mar-a-Lago.

Trump puts great importance on others not overshadowing him. While I won't call this a prediction, Doug Burgum is a rich old white guy who looks the part of a VP in Trump's mind and presents the fewest problems.

If Trump picks J.D. Vance, there will be frequent mentions of J.D. calling Trump "America's Hitler" among other things.

“I go back and forth between thinking Trump might be a cynical asshole like Nixon who wouldn’t be that bad (and might even prove useful) or that he might be America’s Hitler,” Vance wrote, according to McLaurin's tweet. “How’s that for discouraging?” Vance previously used words like “idiot,” “noxious” and “reprehensible” to describe Trump — but that was before he sought the former president's endorsement. He’s since deleted his tweets criticizing Trump and said he regrets speaking ill of him.

Li'l Marco Rubio presents constitutional problems. The presidential and VP candidates are supposed to be from different states. Rubio is a sitting US senator from Florida and can't simply move without quitting his seat.

Elise Stefanik is a woman and is smarter than Trump (despite her support for him). That's two strikes against her.

Burgum would be a disposable VP – sort of like Mike Pence but without the fundamentalism. He would not draw too much attention to himself while he secretly hopes Trump chokes on a double cheeseburger.

[rjzimmerman]

Excerpt from this story from DeSmog Blog:

Doug Burgum, one of President Donald Trump’s cabinet nominees, held a dinner for fossil fuel CEOs at a private event during the Williston Basin Petroleum Conference, held in Bismarck, ND, from May 14 to 16, 2024, emails obtained by the research group Fieldnotes and shared with DeSmog show.

During his Secretary of the Interior Senate confirmation hearing on January 16 before the Committee on Natural Resources, Burgum’s favorable stance towards fossil fuel energy and his skepticism about renewable energy was on display – with the former North Dakota governor suggesting that renewable energy storage wasn’t quite ready for game time, while also talking up the potential for “clean coal.”

That’s disconnected from the current state of the U.S. electrical grid, where over 13,700 megawatts of energy storage like batteries, often paired with wind or solar, were already deployed by the end of last year. Meanwhile, the only commercial coal power plant to use carbon capture, Petro Nova, can supply up to about 240 megawatts when it’s up and running, but the carbon capture project spent much of the past half-decade offline.

But Burgum is no stranger to advocates for carbon capture. At his May 2024 dinner, the then-North Dakota governor was seated with Harold Hamm, the oil tycoon and CEO of Continental Resources, and Liberty Energy’s Chris Wright — now Trump’s nominee to lead the Department of Energy. Todd Slawson, chair of the North Dakota Petroleum Council, and Danny Brown, CEO of Chord Energy, one of the Bakken shale’s largest oil producers, were also assigned seats near Burgum.

Loren Kopseng, one of the men behind Rainbow Energy, – a North Dakota company with big “clean coal” plans – was a last-minute addition to Burgum’s table, the documents show.

“We have an opportunity to decarbonize, produce clean coal, and with that produce reliable baseload [electrical power] for this country,” Burgum testified at his Senate confirmation hearing.

Burgum’s mention of “clean coal” was striking in part because Trump himself seems to have moved on from talking about coal — any kind of coal. The heavily polluting fossil fuel’s use has slumped dramatically over the past decade and a half, sinking to less than 15 percent of America’s power supply in the first 10 months of 2024 (a smaller share than either renewable energy or nuclear power).

Burgum’s repeated “clean coal” references drew immediate fire from energy watchdogs, who say there’s a good reason the term has fallen out of favor.

“Industry has been talking about ‘clean coal’ for more than a quarter century with no action — because the technology is insanely expensive and it doesn’t work,” Tyson Slocum, director of Public Citizen’s Energy Program, said in a statement in response to Burgum’s testimony. “Make no mistake: When Burgum talks about ‘clean coal,’ he’s really pushing to revive dirty, old, expensive, and climate-destroying coal power plants to power AI.”

Burgum did not respond to a request for comment.

[yetisidelblog]

A recent Washington Post story framed Doug Burgum’s preference for unproven carbon capture and storage (CCS) as a climate commitment from the incoming Trump Administration. “The surprising climate commitments of Trump’s new ‘energy czar’,” the headline reads.

While carbon capture is often promoted as a tool to fight climate change, the reality is far less promising. The process itself is highly energy-intensive, requiring significant amounts of fossil fuels to power the capture, transport, and storage of CO2. In fact, most captured carbon ends up being used to extract more oil through enhanced oil recovery—a practice that only increases overall emissions.

Sign the petition to tell the Washington Post that carbon capture is not a climate commitment. And while governments and companies have been investing large sums of cash in CCS schemes for decades, they’ve failed to capture climate pollution at any meaningful scale, and a majority of proposed projects haven’t materialized.

Spending taxpayer money on carbon capture and storage is not a climate commitment—it’s a dangerous cycle that undermines efforts to combat climate change and locks us into continued fossil fuel dependence.

Additionally, the infrastructure needed for CCS comes with serious risks. CO2 pipelines and underground storage facilities pose safety concerns, including the potential for leaks, explosions, and contamination of surrounding areas. These risks fall disproportionately on communities near these projects, many of which already bear the burden of pollution from fossil fuel extraction and processing.

Instead of investing in CCS, we should focus on cutting emissions at the source. We need to capture carbon before it is burned, not after. By reducing our reliance on fossil fuels and accelerating the transition to renewable energy, we can achieve lasting, meaningful progress in addressing the climate crisis.

Sign the petition to tell the Washington Post to hold the Trump Administration accountable to real solutions–not unproven distractions.

Instead of focusing our nation’s resources on carbon capture, the administration should:

Redirect subsidies and investments from fossil fuels and CCS projects to renewable energy initiatives.

Implement policies that encourage energy efficiency and conservation across all sectors.

Support research and development in renewable energy technologies to enhance their efficiency and accessibility.

Promote public awareness and education on the benefits of reducing fossil fuel consumption and adopting renewable energy sources.

Carbon capture may one day be a part of the solution to climate change. But today, it is being used by defenders of dirty energy like incoming Energy Czar Doug Burgum to continue their operations. Please sign the petition to tell the Washington Post not to accept half measures and to pressure the administration to focus on capturing carbon before it is burned.

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[politicaldilfs]

North Dakota Governor DILFs

Fred G. Aandahl, George A. Sinner, Arthur A. Link, Norman Brunsdale, Arthur G. Sorlie, Jack Dalrymple, Ed Schafer, Doug Burgum, Allen I. Olson, John Moses, L. B. Hanna, Lynn Frazier, Ole H. Olson, John Hoeven, Walter Welford, William L. Guy, William Langer

[applied-mass-psychosis]

"the 3.rd Wave"-Movement:

The shocking & sobering Social Experiement of Teacher Ron Jones with his Pupils/Students in the "Ellwood P. Cubberley-High School" , Palo Alto, California, in April 1967 !:

"Lesson Plan": Documentary Movie from 2010 / Interviews with original Students & Teacher:

youtube.com/watch?v=Ynfw1Q_Zmqs

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Ron Jones´ own Publications:

"the third Wave" (1972)

libcom.org/article/third-wave-1967-account-ron-jones

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"No Substitute for Madness: A Teacher, His Kids, and the Lessons of Real Life:"

archive.org/details/nosubstituteform00jone

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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Third_Wave_(experiment)

de.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Third_Wave

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the US-Movie and Book on the Subject, 1981:

"the Wave"

youtube.com/watch?v=zk_xY3ZoDwY

Or watch also in LQ:

youtube.com/watch?v=ICng-KRxXJ8

youtube.com/watch?v=4qlBC45jk3I

youtube.com/watch?v=_cWxLNENgMc

youtube.com/watch?v=MWT3vzAabOU

youtube.com/watch?v=5cj1OmTNKmo

youtube.com/watch?v=MWT3vzAabOU

youtube.com/watch?v=COm5rA9BgDM

St.Galler-Version (Switzerland):

youtube.com/watch?v=45bRlvmGygo

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A German Interpretation (from 2008) of the REAL Story , …but with the (fictive) Prospect of an UNCONTROLLABLE ESCALATION of Events towards the End…. (like it is most likely NOW, 2024, in America !!!):

"die Welle" ( = "the Wave" , 2008):

youtube.com/watch?v=R-GHXeYlgdY

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The deathly dangerous "Amtssprache" / "Office-Language" of the high-ranking NAZI-Officers:

youtube.com/watch?v=Sk9-3bMAGBw

A scary, manipulating Language, which DENIES SELF-RESPONSIBILITY for one´s OWN Actions, Feelings and Thoughts !!! 8-O

"have to"

"must"

"must not"

"may not"

"Superior´s Order/Command"

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[nodynasty4us]

Who will Trump pick as his VP candidate? (Part 3)

Who do you think Donald Trump will pick as his running mate in 2024? This does not mean who you would prefer--just who you think is most likely.

I've divided the possibilities into 4 polls because Tumblr only allows 12 choices per poll. Here are the current and former governors. You can also vote in the other polls for senators, representatives, and non-politicians.

After these polls close, I'll post a final round consisting of the top choices.

(Nikki Haley was governor of South Carolina before she became UN ambassador.)

Tumblr does not allow political posts like this to be Blazed. So to increase participation, please reblog if US politics is a topic that you post about.