Cont: The Trump Presidency: Part 27

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Mongrel said:
Yet the base still lap it up.
How many of them are opposed to tax increases on wages of $400,000?
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Was it John Steinbeck who once said that socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.


And the folks voting against the tax increases don’t picture themselves slowly working their way up to $400,000. They think Mega-Millions is going to put them way over the top.
 
TofuFighter said:
As if we need the reminder, this article has a transcript of some of his inane blathering about them too:

"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 noisy. They kill the birds. You want to see a bird graveyard? You just go. Take a look. A bird graveyard. Go under a windmill someday. You’ll see more birds than you’ve ever seen ever in your life. You know, in California, they were killing the bald eagle. If you shoot a bald eagle, they want to put you in jail for 10 years. A windmill will kill many bald eagles. It’s true."
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But this isn't true, Glass skyscrapers in cities kill more birds than windmills. Cats don't kill a million times more birds than windmills do, And windmills out on the ocean don't kill bald eagles. That isn't their habitat.
 
acbytesla said:
But this isn't true, Glass skyscrapers in cities kill more birds than windmills. Cats don't kill a million times more birds than windmills do, And windmills out on the ocean don't kill bald eagles. That isn't their habitat.
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Hand me that coffee?
*sip*
*spits coffee* Donald Trump said something that wasn't true?!
 
Fast Eddie B said:
We live on a plateau in E TN just west of Knoxville. Beautiful mountains in several directions. Just north of Oliver Springs, near Oak Ridge National Laboratory, is a mountain ridge adorned with windmills. From the air, they’re quite majestic. The still photo below loses the dynamic aspect of the blades slowly turning, but you may get the idea.

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“That FAKE PICTURE is too far away to show ALL the DEAD birds!” - Donald “Audubon” Trump
 
Captain_Swoop said:
Lindsey Graham speaking to Hannity on Fox

"It's impossible for this party to move forward without President Trump being its leader"

"The people who are trying to erase him are going to wind up getting erased.”
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They are going to start needing theoretical physicists to express how far up President Trump's butt Graham has parked himself. It's going to take non-Euclidean geometry to model.
 
dmaker said:
He did the windmill one again today:

" Congratulations to Martha’s Vineyard in Massachusetts for the privilege they will have in looking at massive windmills that have been approved by the Biden Administration and are being built, in China of course, as part of an extraordinarily large wind farm. Wind is an incredibly expensive form of energy that kills birds, affects the sea, ruins the landscape, and creates disasters for navigation. Liberals love it, but they can’t explain why. In any event, Martha’s Vineyard, an absolutely wonderful place, will never be the same. Good Luck!"
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It's true. Just the other day I heard of a cruise ship that went down with thousands of passengers after having struck a wind turbine in the middle of the night. A nearby ship could have saved them if only its radio operator had been on duty. Sadly, he had signed off for the night. By the time another ship, which had heard the SOS but was much farther away, arrived the next morning, only a few hundred passengers had survived the night in lifeboats. Most passengers had drowned or frozen to death in the frigid waters. Damn those wind turbines!
 
acbytesla said:
But this isn't true, Glass skyscrapers in cities kill more birds than windmills. Cats don't kill a million times more birds than windmills do, And windmills out on the ocean don't kill bald eagles. That isn't their habitat.
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I wonder how many actual windmills are left in America anyway. Most grain these days is milled by machine.
 
Beelzebuddy said:
On a clear day they will. If you've never seen them in person, those things are enormous. It's wonderful to see megastructures like them rising up from over the horizon, like we're living in a science fiction movie.
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Enormous is almost an understatement.
It's quite impressive, and startleing, to come across all three blades being transported on trailers in a convoy
It was to me at least. [emoji3]
The comment made me look them up.
Large arrays easily visible 15 to 20 miles away. The pulsing infrasound can be heard/felt several miles away. And the ~1000 feet floating/anchored and ~200 foot hard planted "maximums" would make the continental shelf a bit of a hard limit. I didn't see language on proposed minimums (the '12 miles minimum' phrase) nor do I know how far out the shelf averages.
But I expect they'll usually be close enough to be seen, if not usually "felt".

Most surprising, to me, is that to date we have only 7 or 8 in two small test groupings. Producing all of ~35 megawatts.
What the hell people? [emoji3525]
 
slyjoe said:
I have not seen them in the ocean - just southern california.
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I passed one such giant "farm" a couple times down near Joshua Tree. That's also where my 11,000 pound RV was shifted over one lane, almost lifted, at ~50mph (no other vehicles anywhere near, thankfully).
Seems a logical place for wind turbines. [emoji3]

Yeah, aesthetically... most will either love 'em or hate 'em.
 
eerok said:
On the subject of idiotic GOP sound bites:

Kevin McCarthy: "“I don’t think anybody is questioning the legitimacy of the presidential election."

https://www.politico.com/news/2021/05/12/mccarthy-2020-election-legitimacy-487612
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Well, you know, nobody important, just the guy who lost it, the one that folks like McCarthy are lining up to genuflect to.

McCarthy would like people to believe that Cheney was voted out of her leadership position solely because she'd lost her effectiveness at getting across the basic GOP messaging (lower taxes, smaller government, conservative justices, etc.) because she spoke out against Trump's election lies. The fact is that Cheney was, down the line, 100% in tune with those GOP imperatives, she'd certainly been considered effective enough before the election to land and keep that position, and the only way she's diverged now is in her refusal to go along with Trump in...questioning the legitimacy of the presidential election. It's just breathtaking to me that McCarthy would expect anyone who wasn't already invested in his rewrite of such recent history to be convinced by it.
 
Jim_MDP said:
Enormous is almost an understatement.
It's quite impressive, and startleing, to come across all three blades being transported on trailers in a convoy
It was to me at least. [emoji3]
The comment made me look them up.
Large arrays easily visible 15 to 20 miles away. The pulsing infrasound can be heard/felt several miles away. And the ~1000 feet floating/anchored and ~200 foot hard planted "maximums" would make the continental shelf a bit of a hard limit. I didn't see language on proposed minimums (the '12 miles minimum' phrase) nor do I know how far out the shelf averages.
But I expect they'll usually be close enough to be seen, if not usually "felt".

Most surprising, to me, is that to date we have only 7 or 8 in two small test groupings. Producing all of ~35 megawatts.
What the hell people? [emoji3525]
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We have huge wind farms going on to the Doggr Bank, well out of sight of land.
It's a huge industry on the East Coast with the Humber and Teesside being the main ports involved in the construction. Big ships and big investment. There is plenty of work for the smaller ports too with service boats using them as bases.


We have an close in farm just off the beach at Teesmouth. They are big but not as big as the ones going to the dogger bank.

27 turbines, tip height of 126.2 metres
Generating capacity of 62MW

Here is a link to a picture of one being erected, see the size compared to the ship!
https://www.aboutbritain.com/images/towns/big/redcar-offshore-wind-turbine-133339739.jpg

It is bringing a lot of jobs in to the area, they are replacing the jobs lost in the steel industry over the last few years.

Similar close farms are being built up the coast at Blythe and down the coast at Bridlington.
 
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turingtest said:
Well, you know, nobody important, just the guy who lost it, the one that folks like McCarthy are lining up to genuflect to.
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Maybe McCarthy believes there's a parallel universe where any ridiculous crap he utters won't get ridiculed for the nonsense it is, but it's certainly not this one.

What an idiotic thing for him to say, especially as Liz Cheney is being punished for rejecting Trump's election BS.
 
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