Post #428,229
4/3/19 2:11:05 PM
4/3/19 2:11:05 PM
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Trump Attacks Wind Farms? 'They Say The Noise Causes Cancer'
During a fundraiser at the NRCC Tuesday, Donald Trump made a claim so far-fetched that I had trouble believing it myself.
Last night, Trump was speaking at the National Republican Congressional Committee fundraising dinner and attacked Hillary Clinton for supporting wind energy.
He started off his riff with a lie.
Trump said, "Hillary wanted to put up wind, wind. If you have a windmill anywhere near your house, congratulations your house just went down 75% in value.”
As Tommy Christopher notes, "A 2013 U.S. government study concluded that “wind facilities, after they have been constructed, produce little or no effect on home values.”
(His audience laughed)
Trump continued, “And they say the noise causes cancer, you tell me that one, okay? ” Trump then imitated a whirring sound, "The thing makes a .... And of course it's like a graveyard for birds. if you love birds you'd never want to walk under a windmill."
"Tilting at windmills."
Who knew when Cervantes wrote Don Quixote he could see into the future of an American so-called president.
Trump continues to promote these Alex Jones-type nonsense conspiracies. He's supposed to be the sitting U.S. president. He's very damaging to the country.
Editor's note (Frances Langum): Funny how wind turbines (down the road from my home in Illinois) co-exist with cancer-free farting cows.
https://crooksandliars.com/2019/04/donald-trump-bizarrely-attacks-wind-farms
Satan (impatiently) to Newcomer: The trouble with you Chicago people is, that you think you are the best people down here; whereas you are merely the most numerous.
- - - Mark Twain, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar" 1897
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Post #428,237
4/3/19 7:18:08 PM
4/3/19 7:18:08 PM
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Re: Trump Attacks Wind Farms? birdies
"Science is the belief in the ignorance of the experts" – Richard Feynman
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Post #428,239
4/3/19 9:52:25 PM
4/3/19 9:52:25 PM
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Are the indiginous people allowed . . .
. . to harvest the eagle feathers as they are from those killed by power lines?
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Post #428,240
4/3/19 10:10:05 PM
4/3/19 10:10:05 PM
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hmm good point let me check
"Science is the belief in the ignorance of the experts" – Richard Feynman
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Post #428,241
4/3/19 10:18:50 PM
4/3/19 10:18:50 PM
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apparently so, the eagle repository collects and hands out
"Science is the belief in the ignorance of the experts" – Richard Feynman
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Post #428,247
4/4/19 9:59:00 AM
4/4/19 9:59:00 AM
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And a solution.
bcnu,
Mikem
It's mourning in America again.
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Post #428,249
4/4/19 10:40:33 AM
4/4/19 10:40:33 AM
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??did you read your link? Funny, trump likes birds so now you hate iggles, go figure
Maybe I missed it but that article was how to identify birds not stop them from being chopped up "Science is the belief in the ignorance of the experts" – Richard Feynman
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Post #428,286
4/6/19 8:53:44 AM
4/6/19 8:53:44 AM
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Oh please
The only birds he cares about are the ones in his KFC bucket. He hates windmills because they fucked up his ocean view: https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-hates-windmills-and-it-has-nothing-to-do-with-his-bogus-cancer-claimsYes, they eat birds. How much, how damaging, how they compare with the same energy amount of fossil fuels, etc are actually valid discussion points. But when Trump spews a bunch of lies and occasionally tells a snippet of truth about a subject, you will focus on that tiny moment of truth and use it as an argument point, ignoring all the bullshit. You rarely see the wider picture, choosing instead to tweak people.
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