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Trumps incoherent Turning Point rant about wind energy and fumes, decoded.
By Aaron Rupar @atrupar
Dec 23, 2019, 12:20pm EST
President Donald Trump has pushed a dizzying amount of misinformation about wind energy in 2019 including, perhaps most memorably, his claim about wind turbines causing cancer but if youre looking for an encapsulation, you wont find a better example than the speech he delivered on Saturday night to the Turning Point USA Student Action Summit in West Palm Beach, Florida.
During a rant about how bad the Green New Deal would purportedly be for the country, Trump made a series of false and bizarre claims about wind, including, among others, that the manufacturing of turbines creates fumes that are spewing into the air; making it sound as though wind turbines are pushing Californias bald eagle population to the brink of extinction; and, in an especially galaxy-brained moment, riffing that you know we have a world, right? So the world is tiny compared to the universe.
Trump began his comments about wind energy on an incoherent note, saying, I never understood wind. You know, I know windmills very much.
Things didnt get much better from there. He continued:
But theyre manufactured tremendous if youre 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 its in China, Germany, its going into the air. Its our air, their air, everything right?
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justhanginon
(3,290 posts)having future generations is no longer a given.
saidsimplesimon
(7,888 posts)and brain of a moron. Reminds me of his "sharpie hurricane warning for Alabama"
brush
(53,787 posts)Any sentient being knows by now he's insane and getting worse.
We're in sad shape as a nation that the 2016 election went unquestioned and that our system is ill-equiped to get rid of an unfit, rogue president propped up by a rogue Senate majority leader of a rogue party.
If we rid ourselves of trump with Dems in power amendments to the Constitution are needed so this doesn't happen again.
treestar
(82,383 posts)I mean, from their point of view of course. They would not lose by kicking this madman out.
lunatica
(53,410 posts)He just tilts his hairspray can just so and hes conquered that bastard wind.
Sometimes though...
JDC
(10,129 posts)Knowing how this idiot operates, this could very well be payback to the wind for causing him embarrassment by mussing his quaff. He is that petty and that stupid.
scarytomcat
(1,706 posts)lunatica
(53,410 posts)But, thankfully, he never used his brain so all is good.
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,349 posts)Turbineguy
(37,342 posts)its audience.
Or at least trump's opinion of them.
abqtommy
(14,118 posts)"awe and horror?" That's just as we living now and future generations should react to tRUMP.
MineralMan
(146,317 posts)It's well-deserved, too.
SWBTATTReg
(22,133 posts)an emergency room at the hospital, for exposure to high levels of toxic fumes from the mouth of this disgusting human being.
world wide wally
(21,744 posts)ooky
(8,924 posts)progressoid
(49,991 posts)Hulk
(6,699 posts)This is the remarkably scary thing about this con artist...the millions who actually understand his rantings and follow his twisted and dark logic. Scary I tell you. Been saying it since my first travels abroad when I was only 18...."America is a nation of morons". Not saying everyone...not even the majority; but look, 63 million voted for this piece of shit con artists, and 40% of the voting population STILL support him after all he has said and done in these past four years. Enough said.....
LastLiberal in PalmSprings
(12,586 posts)Trump is not only saving the environment and stopping cancer by being against windmills, he's protecting our National Symbol.
How can anyone disagree with that?
maxsolomon
(33,345 posts)Yes, it creates Carbon Emissions to manufacture a wind turbine. A lot. But THEN, it creates carbon-free electricity.
It creates Carbon Emissions when you manufacture anything. Everything has a Carbon Cost - concrete, for example, is terrible. Trying to REDUCE the Carbon Cost is a good thing.
But being accurate isn't the point of a Trump Gish Gallop. Turning Lib's faces red with exasperation is the point.
11 Bravo
(23,926 posts)lunatica
(53,410 posts)RT Atlanta
(2,517 posts)This is the equivalent of Ronnie Raygun in 1988 when you were quickly seeing the effects of his alzheimers - I see someone also being propped up with donnie t and his word salad about wind turbines.
Leghorn21
(13,524 posts)VOX
(22,976 posts)And if this sick bastard and his lawless cabal arent thrown into the dustbin in 2020, there wont be any future generations pondering anything.
3catwoman3
(24,006 posts)...hed understand it a lot better.
My forehead is getting calloused.