Congressman Josh Gottheimer is protecting the century’s greatest mass murderers

Let’s cut through the synthetic smog of political theater. Congressman Josh Gottheimer (D-N.J.) isn’t crafting energy policy—he’s running a protection racket for the century’s greatest mass murderers.

You know them: the 100 fossil fuel titans whose pipelines bleed carbon into our lungs and whose boardrooms stink of 71% of global industrial emissions since 1988

These are the same corporate polluters who’ve shoveled $270,799 into Gottheimer’s campaign coffers, and now he’s repaying them with a grotesque spectacle: taxpayer-funded infomercials peddling an “all-of-the-above” energy scam that’s nothing but a death warrant for the living world.

While Jersey Shore towns sink under rising tides, Gottheimer’s congressional office funneled $180,225.92 of public money—enough to solar-power half a neighborhood—into an Iowa-based shadow outfit called Pinpoint Digital LLC.

Why? To flood YouTube with saccharine lies: “All of the Above,” is one such video ad that tells us Gottheimer learned to cheat in school and he uses that lesson today

These ads don’t mention the lead poisoning Newark’s children or the fracking toxins seeping into Sussex County wells. No, they’re generic feel-good pablum, strategically untethered from his actual district, because this isn’t about constituents—it’s about laundering a fossil fuel agenda with voter dollars.

The scale is staggering: he spent more on this greenwashing campaign than all 11 other New Jersey House members combined. A coincidence? Pinpoint’s previous payday from Gottheimer? $88,000 in summer 2023, just as he revved up his statewide political machine.

The “All-of-the-Above” Poison Pill

Let’s autopsy this slogan. Gottheimer’s plan demands: “Drill domestic oil now!” and “Build pipelines faster!” while mumbling about wind turbines gathering dust in some distant future.

Gottheimer, a candidate for governor, was widely known as former President Donald Trump’s favorite Democrat in the House of Representatives and the “All-of-the-Above” mantra is a common Republican refrain.

It’s a carbon copy of the oil lobby’s playbook—literally. ExxonMobil spends millions blaming your gas stove while hoarding new drilling leases, and now Gottheimer parrots their talking points like a paid ventriloquist dummy.

Science? It screams that any new fossil infrastructure is a death sentence.

We’ve already built 80% of the carbon-bomb projects that will rocket us past 2.4°C of warming—a threshold for mass famine and ecosystem collapse. Yet Gottheimer’s “pragmatism” greenlights more pipelines, more refineries, more profits for the ExxonMobils whose own scientists knew they were cooking the planet 30 years ago.

Behind Gottheimer’s smile-and-wave ads lurk the real beneficiaries: the Carbon Majors. The same 100 entities—Exxon, Shell, Chevron, state-owned oil beasts—whose emissions since 1988 could single-handedly torch the planet past 4°C.

They’re not “energy partners”; they’re arsonists paying off the fire marshal. And Gottheimer? He’s their hired distraction. While he boasts of a 100% environmental score from compromised rating groups, his policies protect these polluters from the only solution that matches the crisis: an immediate, binding phase-out of fossil fuels.

Health experts worldwide beg for it; doctors detail how extraction poisons communities from “cradle to grave” but Gottheimer’s “all-of-the-above” is a surrender document—a pledge to let these 100 giants keep burning us all.

They’ll call this “pragmatism.” They’ll whisper “energy security.” But when the last glacier melts and the last child gasps in an ER overcrowded with heatstroke victims, remember: this was never about electrons.

It was about protecting $2.7 trillion in fossil fuel investments by sacrificing the future on the altar of quarterly profits.

Gottheimer isn’t a policymaker; he’s a middleman in the greatest heist in human history—one where 100 corporations pocket the cash while the planet bleeds out.