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Sounds very Soviet.

Even scientists in the USSR were occasionally permitted to attend conferences in the West (and scientists from the West were permitted to attend conferences inside the Iron Curtain.

Sounds like someone in the executive branch doesn't want scientists to do their job. Wonder what they're afraid of?

Don't look up.

Eyes down and drill baby, drill.

Funny, very funny. Oil companies are refusing his request to drill more. They are not interested in political theatre.

We're officially in strange times when oil companies are the voice of reason.

What reason are you talking about?!? It's market prices.

Market prices aren't a voice of reason?

( Drilling deeper: are oil prices "market prices" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fossil_fuel_subsidies )

I think "totalitarian" would be more accurate.

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