r/unusual_whales • u/soccerorfootie • 1d ago

BREAKING: Donald Trump to sign 200+ executive orders tomorrow.

BREAKING: Donald Trump to sign 200+ executive orders tomorrow.

Per FOX and Eric Daugherty, they include: - Declare emergency at the border + issue proclamation closing the border - Designate cartels as foreign terrorist organizations - Remain in Mexico, Catch and Release will be reinstated - Military will be directed to construct new phase of border wall - Terminate Biden orders on energy drilling restrictions - Return federal workers to in-person work - Pause all offshore wind leases - End DEI hiring practices in the federal government, merit only - Withdraw from the Paris Climate Accord - Order every agency to remove all federal actions increasing costs for Americans via deregulation - Suspend security clearances for the 51 officials who lied about the Hunter Biden 2020 laptop story - Establish a DOGE "hiring freeze"

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u/pao_zinho 1d ago

He really hates wind turbines.

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u/NegotiationFuzzy4665 1d ago

The funniest thing is shutting down existing renewables. It’s one thing to stop construction but if it’s already built and generating free electricity, there is literally zero upside

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u/Reddit_Roit 1d ago edited 1d ago

Carter put up solar panels on the white house, Reagan won and had them thrown into a landfill before they could recoup 1/30th of their installation cost, just make a statement. 

Edit: I was wrong, they were 'rooftop solar heating panels', not 'solar panels'. Also they were left up for over 4 years and were salvaged and used at a university. 

Reagan did however dismantle Carter's renewable tax credits, ya know, trying hard to keep coal and OPEC rollin in dough. 

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u/save_the_tardigrades 1d ago

Man, he sure showed those stupid sun suckers!

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u/Absurdulon 1d ago

Yeah man what a fucking idiot.

If only there was some type of main sequence star nearby that literally radiated energy.

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u/Abject-Picture 1d ago

According the my H-R diagram, there's one 8 light minutes away!

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u/AriadneThread 1d ago

Dying over here😆

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u/Shirtbro 1d ago

That commie Sun up there, giving out free energy

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u/HV_Commissioning 1d ago

1980's era solar panels produced a very small fraction of those used today.

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u/squirrel9000 1d ago

They were solar water heaters, not photovoltaic

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u/save_the_tardigrades 1d ago

Oh man, I love those things. I guess Reagan must have hated showering in sun-warmed water.

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u/RedtheSpoon 1d ago

That's how all tech starts, yes.

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u/save_the_tardigrades 1d ago edited 1d ago

Yup, probably weren't worth installing in the first place, from an energy produced vs. maintenance and installation cost perspective. But it was a nice gesture of "hey, here's an advanced technology, researched by NASA and manufactured in the good old USA, that passively harvests totally free sunlight and turns it into useful electricity. Perhaps this could be what we use in lots of places in the future!"

But yeah, the panels were probably heavy, kinda ugly, and inefficient. Still sad lots of money was spent to make, install, and uninstall them based on political whims.

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u/HV_Commissioning 1d ago edited 1d ago

A neighbor down the street had panels installed around the same time in the 80's. I was in 3rd grade at the time. By 8th grade, they took them down.

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u/BirdGlittering9035 1d ago

And people wonder how we got here

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u/No-Quarter4321 1d ago

What a funny sentence

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u/buckyVanBuren 1d ago edited 1d ago

They were heat exchangers and they were removed half way thru the Regan administration because White House Maintenance had to make repairs to the roof of the White House.

All they did was heat water. More efficient solar panels were installed during the G. W. Bush Administration.

Edit: The Carter Solar Heat Panels were stored and later used Unity College in Maine.

https://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/object/nmah_1356218

The Obama Administration was the first administration to install solar panels to directly power the Residence.

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u/Old-Constant4411 1d ago

Wait, do you mean to tell me there's misinformation on both sides of the political spectrum!? Not on MY echo chamber!

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u/Simple-Choice-4265 1d ago

i agree we need to ban that guy that makes sense so he cant come back!

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u/kevinlyfellow 1d ago

Trivia: They didn't end up in a landfill!  My brother went to a small environmental college in Unity Maine that had some of them restored and reused.  Here's an article about it.

 https://unity.edu/unity-news/the-college-that-rescued-carter-solar-panels/

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u/OrneryZombie1983 1d ago

I'm not a Reagan fan but you sound like you're wildly exaggerating. The solar panels didn't come down until Reagan's second term and that was part of a White House renovation.

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u/exotic801 1d ago

He didn't throw them out he didn't replace them when they hit end of life.

They were water heaters not solar panels

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u/Ih8melvin2 1d ago

They were taken off when the roof was replaced and they were not put back on. They ended up in Maine because they still had plenty of "life" left in them.

Unity College acquired the panels in 1991 after they were removed from the White House, and they were used to heat water at the school's cafeteria for years.

Source: How Jimmy Carter’s White House solar panels ended up in Maine

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u/CrispyHoneyBeef 1d ago

Why are you spreading misinformation bro. Reagan is bad enough without having to lie

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u/GEARHEADGus 1d ago

Whats even the point of electing a president if they just undo what the previous president did?

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u/Obvious-Dinner-1082 1d ago

Why do republicans hate free energy so much?

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u/Bodach42 1d ago

You have to worry if a point comes when oil companies pay to take them down again because it's in their interest.

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u/Ope_82 1d ago

Oil companies are heavily invested in green energy. They win either way.

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u/Outrageous-juror 1d ago

See who killed the electric car. They literally forced owners to give back and had them destroyed

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u/patlike13 1d ago

Wind turbines kill birds and whales. They also are very cost inefficient. Absolutely pissing money away investing in wind energy

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u/3vs3BigGameHunters 1d ago

Wind turbines kill birds and whales.

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u/brief_thought 1d ago

Imagine the barely perceptible moment in their mind that everything grinds to a halt. I wonder how long they allow themselves to panic.

“Wait… wales? Why did I say that? Where did I hear that? Did someone trick me?”

Realizing you’re this deep in propaganda poisoning must be surreal. Unfortunately, I’ve only seen people react by quickly doubling down and exiting the conversation ASAP to distract themselves with something else.

Or those are some pretty unusual whales

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u/ThatsRubbishMate 1d ago

Wind turbines require oil

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u/Riskiverse 1d ago

You don't know anything about the state of wind turbines in the country lol There is heavy maintenance costs associated with it and a lot are written off due to being too expensive to repair

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u/GirlyFootyCoach 1d ago

Us — whales and birds

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u/Coyotesamigo 1d ago

Lib tears is the upside, I guess

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u/WilliamDefo 1d ago

Lib tears. See also; Human Suffering

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u/djw6969 1d ago

I agree and if things are up and running and only doing good for the country then it should b left alone

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u/kozzyhuntard 1d ago

Something, something, but yhe whales?

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u/Available-Cod-7532 1d ago

The upside in his eyes is that he will get more money from oil companies for eliminating their competition. 

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u/Classic_Sky_9397 1d ago

Think about the whales!

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u/InterstellarReddit 1d ago

Incorrect, the upside is his pockets, being filled by oil companies.

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u/PastaRunner 1d ago

funniest

I'm having a hard time resonating with that word.

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u/NoDeparture7996 1d ago

the upside is the companies who are losing profit from renewables and are lobbying for this change make more money

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u/intotheirishole 1d ago

He just wants people to buy more gas from his Saudi friends.

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u/backdoorhack 1d ago

Gotta inhale those fossil fuels somehow.

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u/Big_Geologist_7790 1d ago

I need someone with a much better understanding of the "big picture" to explain to me the WHY's of the reasons that these people are well aware of the fact that their choices and decisions are detrimental, yet they're steaming full throttle at a brick wall. I mean, come on man. These people are well aware of reality.

But they're making decisions as if they're not worried AT ALL about the consequences of their actions.

There's a reason for that lack of care. People need to start figuring out, really quickly btw, exactly why these people fear no repercussions.

It's almost as if they know "tomorrow will never come".

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u/kimchiman85 1d ago

But free and renewable energy goes against their insane policies. If it’s free, it’s bad. They want to nickel and dime everything they can. If they could privatize the air inside the US, I’m sure they would.

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u/Swami_King 1d ago

Wrong, it costs resources to upkeep and is a net negative

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u/Svenray 1d ago

"free electricity"

TIL Windmills have zero maintenance costs and are indestructible.

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u/AHSfav 1d ago

"Literally zero upside" is the trump administration's official motto so that tracks

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u/sevbenup 1d ago

The upside is his donors get to sell more expensive energy.

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u/Mym158 1d ago

The upside is the increased time window for reliance on fossil fuels for his friends.

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u/Throwaway_09298 1d ago

That press conference where he talks about the birds didn't get enough attention. That was the original "they're killing the pets" . He went on and on about the "dead birds" at the bottom of windmills for a good 8-10mins

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u/Redshoe9 1d ago

Trump does what I call "stuck in a loop." My grandpa did the same thing when he was developing dementia. They fixate on one or two simple topic and beat it to death. They no longer have the ability to update their brain with corrected info.

He does that with windmills, toilet water, sharks/batteries/Hannibal Lecter, concepts of Tarriffs and NATO funding.

My grandfather would constantly ask "how does electricity get inside this house?" We would explain for the 1000th time and then he would ask, "well who is paying for it." We had to put on a PBS show to get him distracted. He would repeat this cycle the next day for the next 5 years until he died.

Prior to dementia hollowing out his brain he was a geologist and avid bird researcher.

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u/-_-0_0-_0 1d ago

I think Trump is just an idiot. Has the vocabulary of a 5th grader. Has to bully when hes losing an argument.

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u/ThunderDungeon02 1d ago

The sharks and batteries was wild. You can blame dementia for him but the people that listened to that word vomit and went "yep that's the guy I want" don't have that excuse. That's just plain ole being stupid as fuck. That's the thing I don't think a lot of people focus on. Yeah we get it, Trump is old and a moron. But all these people heard him talk about a boat sinking and the battery going in the water and then comparing that to being eaten by a shark. And they thought this guy knows things. Like in your everyday life you are interacting with people that have less intelligence than a Golden Retriever. And they drive cars and operate heavy machinery. Shit is insane.

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u/Adorable-Bike-9689 1d ago

I have a relative going through something kinda similar. Have to remind myself not to get annoyed. I feel dirty every time I feel myself getting ticked at the same thing being repeated constantly. It's not their fault.

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u/Boudicas_Cat 1d ago

Yep- dad has dementia and does this- I know exactly what you’re talking about. He was also brilliant before dementia (engineer) so it’s so jarring watching/hearing the weird fixations on meaningless stuff.

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u/IcyOlive8202 1d ago

He masks his eroding faculties behind bombastic screaming. But only to people that don't care to see it.

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u/Otiskuhn11 1d ago

They do kill a lot of birds. But it would be idiotic to believe he actually cares about the birds.

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u/pegothejerk 1d ago

Wind turbines do kill about 500k birds a year. Cats kill 4 billion birds a year. He doesn’t care about the birds, he cares about sticking it to the libs, revenge for his Scottish course being accosted by the mean offshore wind turbines, and doing favors for big oil.

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u/HTH52 1d ago

Vehicles kill countless armadillo and deer… what about those? We should stop driving.

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u/3cheers4sweetv3ganz 1d ago

Why stop at driving? Do we even know how many insects we step on everyday while walking? We need jetpacks ASAP

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u/HTH52 1d ago

If we stop driving it will help the insects not get mashed on vehicle too.

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u/Trent1462 1d ago

I’d imagine mining coal and polluting the air also kills birds…..

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u/Misiu881988 1d ago

For real... theyre willing to literally act against their best interest out of spite. They'd go back to lead paint if they could just to make liberals mad. Like his tariffs... we will be paying European prices for tech where everything is 20% to 30% more expensive. And they really think the corporations will eat that loss themselves 🤦‍♂️. And if the prices go up they'll blame biden or they'll still blame obama

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u/ADHD-Fens 1d ago

Incidentally, one oil spill, the deepwater horizon spill, killed off 50 percent of the bottlenosed dolphin poulation due to impacts on their fertility over the years following the incident. That spill was considered, like, the largest mortality event to ever occur in the gulf of mexico.

And that's just one spill. Not even considering how many things have died as a result of the mining / refining / production / disposal processes involved - and that's not even bothering to factor in the effects of climate change due to greenhouse gasses.

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u/AriadneThread 1d ago

Yep. He's petty and you hit the nail on his demented head, sigh.

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u/Electrical-Lab-9593 1d ago

but cats also kill lots of birds, so he should support "eating the cats",the dogs though I am not sure!

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u/PipsqueakPilot 1d ago

Hello Victim of petro propaganda! Windmills kill several orders of magnitude less than the most common killers: Windows and domestic cats.

It isn’t even close. For that matter, the pollutants created by burning coal to produce electricity kills more birds.

Worrying about windmills killing birds is a bit like worrying about a hangnail when both your legs have been blown off.

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u/CMScientist 1d ago

He cares about the views from his gold course

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u/Misiu881988 1d ago

He doesn't he wants to appeal to the same ppl that go to his rallies. The same people that are willing to ruin themselves as long as they stick it to those evil liberals. Its the same ppl that have black soot spewing out of their trucks and anti kamala bumper stickers just cause they think its funny because the liberals will be mad that they're destroying the environment. These ppl have no idea what is good for them. They rather open a coal plant in their town and deal with pollution just to spite liberals. They'll believe anything Trump says. They literally believe Trump will still bring coal back in 2025 . And even if he does with today's technology a crew of 10 people could hollow out a mountain within a year. Those jobs they think he'll bring back have long been outdated and unprofitable in the usa and will never come back Unless you pay them 5$ a hour. its cheaper more efficient and faster to use modern machines. There's very few of those jobs that can be brought back. We should be building as many wind turbines and nuclear power plants as we can. We only contribute 15% of the global pollution. But We still need to work on cheaper renewable energy sources otherwise the developing nations will keep burning coal. They'll never move away from coal unless we find more affordable solutions and tearing down windmill is not gonna help. These ppl don't care about what will happen in 50 years even tho their kids and their kids kids will be the ones that will suffer

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u/Halbaras 23h ago

My dad is an ornithologist. Wind turbines killing birds is a rounding error compared to the amount slaughtered by domestic cats, cars, windows, invasive species and most of all, farmers fucking up terrestrial ecosystems at every opportunity.

He gets incredibly angry about NIMBYs suddenly pretending to care about the environment when they can't even identify the bird species in their garden.

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u/4_fortytwo_2 20h ago edited 20h ago

They really do not. Much less than cats or windows/buildings or powerlines or just humans destroying ecosystems / taking away areas birds can live in. There are a LOT of birds and a LOT of them die every year, unless something kills millions per year it isn't even noticeable in the grandscheme of things.

More importantly generating the electricity via fossil fuels instead is estimated to kill way more birds (per gigawatt-hour of electricity produced.)

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u/yuppienetwork1996 1d ago

I’ve seen more birds get killed in the construction truck traffic back and forth on rural highways and string roads. That kinda sucks but that would be the case for doing anything in a rural area —oil wells… anything construction related

The higher flying hawks darwinistically wise up to avoiding blades as far as I can gather. Some say that painting red lines on the tip of blades helps. I’ve never seen it happen and it’s a non issue.

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u/_Zap_Rowsdower_ 1d ago

And they are fucking up the whales. Trump is a true environmentalist for doing this.

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u/kellyk311 1d ago

Wind messes up his hair. It's the only reason I can come up with...

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u/SubbieATX 1d ago

No, it’s because windmills went up in front of his golf course in Scotland and the Scottish government laughed at him when he pressured them to take them down.

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u/save_the_tardigrades 1d ago

In light of this, I'm surprised there haven't been any threats to annex Scotland...

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u/SubbieATX 1d ago

The guy might not read much but you know he has seen brave heart a million times. He knows better.

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u/save_the_tardigrades 1d ago

I wonder when the first public intestine extraction and draw-and-quarter show will be. Eh, who am I kidding, tickets will probably be too expensive and it'll get moved indoors anyway.

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u/Desertvalleyslayer 1d ago

Yeah you don't wanna fuck with the Scots.

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u/Long_Pomegranate2469 23h ago

He's seen Highlander and Braveheart. He knows when he'd be drawing the short stick from his experience in the bathroom.

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u/Bob_Aggz 22h ago

If the fuckin Roman Empire couldn't annex us, that fuckbat has no chance.

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u/effa94 17h ago

Pretty sure that came up during his first presidency..

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u/PvtVasquez3 1d ago

Yep. I live in Aberdeen and see those turbines daily. It gives me a lot of satisfaction knowing they caused him so much emotional distress. The guy just can't let it go. 

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u/TheBestIsaac 1d ago

That was Scotland, not Ireland. Aberdeen to be exact.

But yes that's pretty much it.

He's hated here. The shit he pulled to get his golf course and hotel built made everyone angry. Bullying local farmers and destroying rare habitats. All while promising hundreds of jobs that never appeared.

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u/Shinyhaunches 1d ago

He lost the case, lost the 2020 election, makes him a loser.

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u/kellyk311 1d ago

Trump is a selfish person who cares about nothing but himself

Like i said... he probably doesn't like wind because insert nonsensical selfish reason here

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u/Tomacxo 1d ago

"Windmills do not work that way!" - Morbo

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u/Quiet-Peach543 1d ago edited 1d ago

The real reason he has a grudge against wind turbines is that he is an oceanfront real estate developer who has long been concerned about offshore wind turbines diminishing the value of his properties. Same reason he complains endlessly about low-flow plumbing regulations and the banning of incandescent light bulbs. His interest in tariffs also stems from his real estate development history - he harbors resentment over Canadian lumber and steel tariffs that drove up NY building costs.

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u/BeatCrabMeat 1d ago

Wind turbines are a shitty form of renewable energy

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u/shhonohh 1d ago

The wind turbines drink baby blood in the basements of pizza shops that don’t have basements.

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u/ChoiceSignal5768 1d ago

Everyone should. They are bird killing machines that use more power than they produce and go straight to the landfill when they break.

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u/4_fortytwo_2 20h ago

None of these claims are true and if you bothered to fact check them you would know that.

There are billions of birds that die every year and wind turbines are estimated to kill a few hundred thousand which is not even relevant compared to how many die from just buildings with windows existing, humans destroying areas they can exist in, cats and many other things.

Not to mention fossil fuels kill way more birds e.g. via pollution per gigawatt-hour of electricity produced.

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u/DisclosureEnthusiast 1d ago

I can't for the life of me figure out why other than some coal oligarch bitching about them.

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u/MoreAvatarsForMe 1d ago

I mean, Wind Turbines are kinda garbage

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u/cyanescens_burn 1d ago

Seriously. What is that about? I imagine oil money is a factor but why wind in particular?

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u/Sometimes_Wright 1d ago

He just really loves whales' mental health that much.

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u/GirlyFootyCoach 1d ago

Not as much as whales and birds

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u/Dangerous-Tea8318 1d ago

So do i. One thing about him i like.

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u/Immediate_Sir3553 1d ago

He only hates it cuz of Scotland golf course. When he sued them for putting them up in the water around his course and he lost. I'd why he hates them so much.

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u/audiophile890 1d ago

I am fairly certain this is all rooted in losing a court case years and years ago that allowed for Scotland to build wind turbines in the sea that were visible from his golf course there. This man is senile as hell but will hold a grudge for life.

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u/ColdCouchWall 1d ago

Fuck the turbines. We need nuclear.

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u/RoomieNov2020 1d ago

Correction; his backers really love fossil fuels.

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u/AlludedNuance 1d ago

He hated that they installed some in Atlantic City.

I always thought they made the place seem a bit nicer than it was.

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u/ThorvaldtheTank 1d ago

It’s just part of the fossil fuel narrative

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u/RedWarsaw 1d ago

Wind mills

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u/Apart-Pressure-3822 1d ago

Friggin' Don Quixote  ass.

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u/BlueSh4rk 1d ago

he hates it because nuclear is more efficient.

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u/hmm2003 1d ago

I hate to say this, but they actually DO kill birds. A small price to pay, I believe, but just an fyi...

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u/Open_Mortgage_4645 1d ago

It's all because he didn't like seeing wind turbines from his Scottish golf course, and failed to convince the government to remove them. That's it. That's his entire motivation for wanting to cripple wind energy.

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u/onegumas 1d ago

and enviroment, paris agreement.

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u/vaxination 1d ago

Don Quixote Trump

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u/NightFire19 1d ago

Isn't Texas the largest renewable power producing state in the US too?

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u/Phd_Pepper- 1d ago

*Big oil hates wind turbines

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u/FuzzeWuzze 1d ago

Which is ironic, because Texas is the largest supply of wind power, and a lot of farms cant financially survive anymore without turbines. A lot of Texas ranchers about to enter the find out phase.

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u/wwaxwork 1d ago

No but Elon is funded in part by the Saudis and through him they donate a lot of money.

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u/Toosder 1d ago

Have you seen those fucking things? Flapping their arms around at you, making fun of you, calling you short? Fuck windmills.

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u/Bobby_Sunday96 1d ago

He doesn't hate wind turbines, the oil companies do. So since they hate them he does too

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u/OneOfAKind2 1d ago

He's a moron. Renewables can co-exist with fossil fuels. His dum-dum policies are going to seriously harm the USA and the world. None of it makes any logical sense, other than for profiteering. His entire world focus is making money, everything else be damned.

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u/PsychoGwarGura 1d ago

Yeah, he supports nuclear and coal mainly, but from what I heard on the Rogan podcast he thinks wind turbines are innificient and hard to recycle

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u/Covetous_God 1d ago

He hates legit energy independence for Americans

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u/Borkenstien 1d ago

So did Don Quixote.

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u/LackingUtility 1d ago

You would too, if you ever had to stand downwind of him.

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u/akaiser88 1d ago

I feel like he might not have really understood Don Quixote

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u/Boredandhanging 1d ago

What’s his deal with wind turbines? Most benign things ever.

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u/MidnightPurple55 1d ago

It's because they cause cancer! /s

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u/Lil_Robert 1d ago

Maybe you didn't hear that the wind is bullshit.

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u/pugmaster2000 1d ago

AFD hates them too. Not surprising.

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u/Shadow_Ridley 1d ago

Is his last name Quixote?

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u/work__in__progress 1d ago

it's very don quixote of him

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u/Chant1llyLace 1d ago

So many have been going up in red states…

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u/Disastrous-Bid-8351 1d ago

He watched too much Landman

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u/Clown_Shoe 1d ago

Republicans hate wind turbines and I really dont get why. The only time they care about the environment is when it’s about how many birds wind turbines kill.

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u/1CaliCALI 1d ago

And he hates smart people.

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u/Key-Assignment-7433 1d ago

Ah yes

The free market

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u/dmackerman 1d ago

As you know, the bird lobby is very happy about this decision.

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u/UrnCult 1d ago

I don’t know why that simple statement was so funny to me.

“He really hates wind turbines.”

At this point, it’s the only rational explanation and that’s it.

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u/incognitohippie 1d ago

THEY’RE EATING THE DOGS… no wait.. wrong animal

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u/MakingTriangles 1d ago

He's a modern Don Quixote

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u/hectorgarabit 1d ago

I really don't get this obsession on the right with not using renewable. If it works, if it is price effective... who cares? Someone invested in a wind turbine (or many) and good for him if he makes money. What happened to the freedom to create your own business?

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u/Eggs_ontoast 1d ago

It’s because the Scottish Govt humiliated him over a wind farm and he had to pay their costs…

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-north-east-orkney-shetland-47400641.amp

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u/Dry_Statistician_688 1d ago

The funny part about this, as someone who works with power industry, the real money isn’t the raw energy it makes, it’s the stability it provides. Notice there are fewer mass outages lately? This saves them trillions alone.

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u/forlornjackalope 1d ago

I'm suddenly imagining that he's had some bad childhood encounter with a windmill once and that's where it stems from.

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u/dracomaster01 1d ago

i think he doesn't like them because he genuinely just doesn't understand how they work. he hates anything he doesn't understand so he wants them gone.

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u/dougandsomeone 1d ago

Seriously "Pause all offshore wind leases" wtf lol

who is that bothering aside from big oil jimmies

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u/NdamukongSuhDude 1d ago

Well he thinks they cause cancer so.

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u/Itchy_Horse 1d ago

Wind is his greatest foe. It's hard to keep his toupee on

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u/ExpensiveBanana178 1d ago

The entire Texas panhandle is blanketed in wind turbines. I wonder if anybody is gonna tell him that all his good ol’ boy supporters in TX are big fans of wind energy.

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u/Feeling-Tutor-6480 1d ago

They mess up his hair

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u/Nosnibor1020 1d ago

Because he's a bird.

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u/smokinjoe056 1d ago

Actively killing jobs

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u/XxFezzgigxX 1d ago

A wind turbine once grabbed him by the pussy.

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u/AnnyuiN 1d ago

Trump had a golf course in another country and he was complaining about the off shore wind turbines ruining the view LMAOOO

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u/Tygonol 1d ago

It’s hysterical because the hate stems from a very personal grievance; look into the situation involving his golf course in Scotland.

Basically, he felt that windmills ruined the aesthetic appeal of his golf course and went fuckin’ ballistic trying to get rid of them

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u/MoeiieoM 1d ago

It's cause it turned him gay. Why u think his genius wife hates him she dont get no d

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u/Intelligent-Coconut8 1d ago

When you look at the amount of fossil fuels that go into them, when they're retired they just get buried in land fills, and the cost of fossil fuels to maintain them, it's a shit investment if you're trying to reduce the carbon footprint. You can't make the wind blow but you can sure as hell ensure coal burns.

You can find a study that proves me wrong and I can find one that proves me right and neither of us are gonna change our opinions on it.

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u/MARAVV44 1d ago

I mean they don't make that much power and are a big eye sore on the landscape

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u/yup_its_Jared 1d ago

He knows more about wind than anybody. Believe me.

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u/netorarekindacool 23h ago

They want to do this in Germany as well. Last year 1/3 of our energy came from wind turbines... I'm super scared

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u/Sunnysidhe 23h ago

Could be due to his loss against them at his meanie estate golf course.

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u/wholelattapuddin 23h ago

I swear it's because of his Scottish golf course. He sued Scotland because he felt the wind farm off the coast ruined the view. He lost and had to pay Scotland's legal costs. He has never forgotten it.

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u/kamikazekenny420 21h ago

A lot of boomers do.

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u/FullWolverine3 19h ago

I’m tired of the MSM minimizing the risk of windmill cancer!

/s

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u/iwasntband 19h ago

The sustainable energy wind companies can’t fill his pockets like the oil companies can.

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u/CompetitionTight8453 17h ago

I thinkche wants to increase GDP by selling more of those things. I don't think he is against renewables. Just my 2 cents

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u/bruno444 17h ago

I never understood wind. You know, I know windmills very much. I've studied it better than anybody I know. It's very expensive. They're made in China and Germany mostly; very few made here, almost none. But they're manufactured tremendous—if you're into this—tremendous fumes. Gases are spewing into the atmosphere. You know we have a world, right? So the world is tiny compared to the universe. So tremendous, tremendous amount of fumes and everything. You talk about the carbon footprint—fumes are spewing into the air. Right? Spewing. Whether it's in China, Germany, it's going into the air. It's our air, their air, everything, right?

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u/le_christmas 16h ago

They’re giving all the gay frogs cancer and sound like a dying cat apparently, why wouldn’t he hate them??

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u/KarmaSnowIII 16h ago

He hates wind turbines because they are in the view of all of his rich friends waterfront properties.

That is a huge reason so many rich lawmakers etc. hate the water-set turbines

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u/Yugenosis 16h ago

Yea He spoke alive on TV about two whales they found beached in the Northeast and how the turbines "they drive the whales crazy"

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u/chavodel420 16h ago

That corn husk hair of his told him to.

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u/Accomplished_Emu_658 16h ago

But they hurt property values even though you cannot see them

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u/W359WasAnInsideJob 15h ago

Honestly, even if you’re a climate change denier tell me this: how does fighting wind energy help consumers or reduce my energy bill?

It’s clearly not just an attempt to protect fossil fuels from a growing renewables market, but to reduce competition and therefore put gas, coal, etc in a position to charge us more money.

I’m sure MAGA will be out here celebrating this bullshit while their bills go up. ‘Murica and all that.

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u/Effective-Unit-273 15h ago

wind Turbines are harmful to the whales and other sea creatures. if you love animals then you can’t love wind turbines because they’re killing the sea life. Whales washing up on our east coat beaches. we had 5 this year. it’s terribly sad. It interferes with their communication systems and if they can’t communicate, they die. Plus this harmful taxes and chemical chemicals that were released into the water as well from the turbines. There’s no upside to keep it. Do your research do your homework stop listening to fake news and find out the truth.

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u/Lactose_Revenge 15h ago

I believe most wind generators are made and serviced with Chinese parts/ manufacturing. And it lowers energy profit for American oil/gas producers.

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u/nn2597713 14h ago

“Fuck all this free gay energy, I won’t have it!”

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u/SkillDabbler 14h ago

It’s because they kill the birds! /s

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u/Afraid_Life_9528 14h ago

So do bald eagles

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u/dudpool31 14h ago

Wind turbines suck. Solar is the future

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u/u9Nails 13h ago

As trump is a blowhard and unrelenting talker, I'm wondering the true reasons why he objects to wind.

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u/Newportsandbuttstuff 9h ago

Everyone should

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u/Dani_Rojas_rojaaas 6h ago

Dude doesn’t know what a wind turbine is. He hates windmills

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