Fake news.
There’s no evidence he ever stopped
That’s our money. “They” aren’t paying shit.
Wrong community - this is just news.
You don’t find anything oniony about a government actively paying money in order to switch to less environmentally friendly sources? I suppose it’s a matter of opinion.
They’re actively paying money to switch to a more costly energy source. We pay more in taxes just to pay more in our electricity bills
This government? Not at all. They’ve even done this once already with the new elecric mail trucks. Unfortunately this is just another Wednesday in the Trump administration.
Refer to the pinned post in this community to see that the mods agree - these sorts of posts are not nottheonion.
I have no objections to mods removing it if they agree with you; I honestly believed it would be suitable here.
Isn’t it crazy how the US Constitution allows a President to do stuff like that? You’d think once the billions are hit, there needs to be someone else to consult?
I mean, the constitution is an outline, an instruction manual. It’s Congress that passes laws and builds the bureaucracy that allows this to happen, at the direction of POTUS.
Crazier than the president swearing on a fantasy book?
The book they swear on is their choice, though.
The president can swear on whatever they want (or even on nothing at all, like Coolidge), it doesn’t have to be the Bible.
Technically trump didn’t swear in on anything at his second inauguration, Melania was holding a Bible for him but he had one hand in the air and the other at his side.
US government pays an exorbitant amount of money in order to set itself back, just to satisfy insane “windmill” bigotry from stupidest president in history.
That “man” has done many dumb things - many award-winning stupid things - but this might just be the dumbest of them all.
Not sure if it’s because of bigotry, he’s probably getting bribed by oil tycoons
He’d see it as a tribute.
he bought land in scotland for a golf course in 2006… near where an offshore wind farm had been in planning for several years.
he either doesn’t know what due diligence is, or him being himself thought he could muscle the local and national government into nixing the wind farm (or both).
he objected to the project’s formal application. he lost.
he sued. he lost.
he appealed. he lost again.
the wind farm was built, not completed until 2016.
he’s been on an extra salty vendetta against wind power, and basically all renewables, ever since.
My god
This is truly bizarre.
quixotic, even
Trump certainly seems to be tilting when it comes to windmills.
And just in general. Motherfucker, i can’t find that gif of the demented rapist waddling crookedly down the red carpet to wait for his daddy putin. But you know the one i mean.
Destroying US energy independence while simultaneously demonstrating how unstable foreign energy imports can become is certainly an interesting way to undermine our future. If one were intentionally trying to destroy this country, it’s hard to imagine doing anything differently.
To say nothing of having attacked multiple American cities, including the Capitol itself.
This country is such a joke
Seriously, can we just rip off the collapse Band-Aid and just get it over with? This is like death by a thousand dismemberments.
“Look you stupid bastard you’ve got no arms left.”
I think that’s part of the trouble with trying to take down something this big. It has to be done systematically because it is dense with governmental machinations and pure scale. They have to find all the weak spots and then work out how to dismantle them. You’d think it could be done much quicker but there are scores of incompetent people doing the work coupled with fairly large tasks to accomplish. The gears move slowly, even as it’s being destroyed.
I think another part of the problem is human resilience and adaptability. We somehow manage to keep saying “This is fine” while the house is on fire because we aren’t personally feeling the heat yet (and by the time we do, it’ll be too late). But we have nowhere else to go and the fire is way bigger than any of us can manage individually. Even if we manage to put it out, all we’ll have left is the burnt wreckage–if there’s anything left at all. Some are blissfully unaware that there’s even a fire going on, some are pouring gas on it and everything in between.
So i guess it could have been done a lot more quickly and efficiently but the fact that Trump is at the helm means there’s a level of incompetence baked into the operation that will inevitably lead to delays in the schedule of something like a fascist takeover.
Art of the deal
Beyond insane. Even beyond just plain corrupt. Did Putin dictate this plan?
