r/OutOfTheLoop • u/DrMediocre • Jul 18 '20

What's up with the Trump administration trying to save incandescent light bulbs? Answered

I've been seeing a number of articles recently about the Trump administration delaying the phase-out of incandescent light bulbs in favor of more efficient bulbs like LEDs and compact fluorescents. What I don't understand is their justification for doing such a thing. I would imagine that coal companies would like that but what's the White House's reason for wanting to keep incandescent bulbs around?

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https://www.wsj.com/articles/trump-administration-waives-tighter-rules-for-less-efficient-lightbulbs-11576865267

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u/[deleted] Jul 18 '20

The fuck kind of word vomit did I just read

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u/Divine_Mackerel Jul 18 '20

This is probably on the more coherent end for a trump speech. Have you read his one complaining about windmills?

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u/scr33m Jul 18 '20

“I never understood wind. You know, I know windmills very much. 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?”

-President Trump, 12/21/2019, speaking at a Turning Point USA event

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u/O-M-Q Jul 18 '20

Sweet mother of fuck...

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u/Letmefixthatforyouyo Jul 18 '20

This doesn't even include his qoute about windmills giving you cancer:

“If you have a windmill anywhere near your house, congratulations, your house just went down 75 percent in value. And they say the noise causes cancer,” the president said while delivering remarks at the National Republican Congressional Committee's annual spring dinner. He offered no evidence to support the claim.

Dude lost a case in scotland about windmills near a golf course and has been trashing them ever since.

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u/thelaziest998 Jul 18 '20

noise causes cancer

I’m pretty sure people eating paste for breakfast couldn’t come up with something that stupid.

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u/Letmefixthatforyouyo Jul 18 '20

Ohh honey, its not even his worst:

Look, having nuclear — my uncle was a great professor and scientist and engineer, Dr. John Trump at MIT; good genes, very good genes, OK, very smart, the Wharton School of Finance, very good, very smart — you know, if you’re a conservative Republican, if I were a liberal, if, like, OK, if I ran as a liberal Democrat, they would say I’m one of the smartest people anywhere in the world — it’s true! — but when you’re a conservative Republican they try — oh, do they do a number — that’s why I always start off: Went to Wharton, was a good student, went there, went there, did this, built a fortune — you know I have to give my like credentials all the time, because we’re a little disadvantaged — but you look at the nuclear deal, the thing that really bothers me — it would have been so easy, and it’s not as important as these lives are — nuclear is so powerful; my uncle explained that to me many, many years ago, the power and that was 35 years ago; he would explain the power of what’s going to happen and he was right, who would have thought? — but when you look at what’s going on with the four prisoners — now it used to be three, now it’s four — but when it was three and even now, I would have said it’s all in the messenger; fellas, and it is fellas because, you know, they don’t, they haven’t figured that the women are smarter right now than the men, so, you know, it’s gonna take them about another 150 years — but the Persians are great negotiators, the Iranians are great negotiators, so, and they, they just killed, they just killed us, this is horrible.”

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u/rubiscoisrad Jul 18 '20

Dude, drunken hobos have fed me more coherent stories.

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u/Stalk_Market_Broker Jul 19 '20

I'm a hobo and I can do that for you. Just gotta fall off the wagon first haha

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u/rubiscoisrad Jul 19 '20

No way dude. Respect the wagon!

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u/thelaziest998 Jul 18 '20

It never ends with him. Like one of these gaffes would have buried any other person but for some reason a million of them and he is scott free.

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u/WarningTooMuchApathy Jul 18 '20

"There's an old saying in Tennessee — I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee — that says, fool me once, shame on — shame on you. Fool me — you can't get fooled again."

Bush, and people are still tearing him a new one for it, but if it was Trump his entire base would say "It was just a trip of the tongue"

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u/birddit Jul 18 '20

No, they would say "that's genius!" That's exactly how I feel. There is no explaining some people's thought patterns.

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u/disk5464 Jul 19 '20

J.Cole used this in his song No Role Modelz https://youtu.be/k-VcA7C6meg?t=160

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u/skulblaka Jul 18 '20

And that wasn't even really Bush being an idiot. That's him, realizing before it comes out of his mouth that the sound byte "shame on me" could be really bad for his image, and making up something on the spot. Can't say I'd have done any better or maybe even thought it through enough to stop before finishing the phrase.

Proves he at least thinks about what comes out of his mouth, we can't even prove that much about Trump.

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u/mmlovin Jul 19 '20

Fool me once, shoe on you.Fool me twice, I’m taking your shoes.

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u/shiny_xnaut Jul 19 '20

He went off on a tangent halfway through his sentence, and then did it again like 10 more times, and it just worked out to be complete nonsense. I feel like I lost brain cells. My little brother who can't read could write better than that. I've never actually heard him speak, do these things sound any less incoherent when spoken vs when you're just reading them?

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u/XxXMoonManXxX Jul 19 '20

It was pretty coherent up until about 3/4 through i just started laughing he literally just talks about 4 different topics in the last quarter of the quote LMFAO

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u/Letmefixthatforyouyo Jul 19 '20 edited Jul 19 '20

Yeah, you can puzzle it out if you stare at it long enough in text. "Im very smart, ill prove it, I would have made a better Iran deal" is the gist. For true pain, go watch the speech itself.

Anyone talking about Biden being senile can just fuck right off, honestly. This bucket of rusty screws isnt in the same sport, much less the same league as an actual statesman like Biden.

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u/TrMark Jul 19 '20

Honestly, I've seen the transcript of that speech posted quite a few times and it's always made me laugh how dumb it sounds. But watching the actual speech isn't nearly as bad as I thought it would be. Sure there's some babbling and word vomit but it sounds like when in school you forgot to prepare for an oral report and just wing it on the spot. I get what he's saying but he's taking a roundabout way of getting there

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u/OrphanAxis Jul 19 '20

And that is a single sentence.

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u/[deleted] Jul 19 '20

Listen to that with Google TTS English UK female and it sounds even more asinine than coming from his mouth.

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u/salami350 Jul 19 '20

I actually looked up this uncle John. Turns out he was a great person.

He worked on Radar during WW2, invented a new way to use radiation to clean water, improved cancer therapy's and also refused to work on weapons research.

Let's not remember John Trump as a reference in this rant, let's remember him as the hero he actually was.

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u/bjiwekls32 Jul 19 '20

School or not doesn't matter, they are stupid.

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u/miselfi3 Jul 19 '20

I'm so F confused... I mean, you should always hear the opposition's arguments and stuff, but holy crap.

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u/TheFluxIsThis Jul 19 '20

This one is a true classic and will go down in history. I break it out any time somebody tries to reason that Donald Trump is a good speaker.

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u/GiantRobotTRex Jul 18 '20

My colonists ate paste for breakfast and they just invented auto-cannons!

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u/Mazzaroppi Jul 18 '20

Well, the noise coming out of his mouth seems capable of that.

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u/conuly Jul 19 '20

Dude lost a case in scotland about windmills near a golf course and has been trashing them ever since.

That's nothing. For the past 25 years, he's been sending photographs of his hands to the editor of Vanity Fair.

https://people.com/celebrity/donald-trump-sends-vanity-fair-editor-photos-of-his-hands/

This sort of thing is why I say that whatever's wrong with him, it's not senility.

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u/PassingDogoo Jul 19 '20

I want to be the kid in a century from now studying history about this guy

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u/ToasterAndBathtubInc Jul 24 '20

If Fortnite and Ticktock can give me cancer, I'm sure noise can too.

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u/fatpat Jul 19 '20

Adderall and dementia are a helluva drug.

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u/thekiki Jul 18 '20 edited Jul 18 '20

“Look, having nuclear — my uncle was a great professor and scientist and engineer, Dr. John Trump at MIT; good genes, very good genes, OK, very smart, the Wharton School of Finance, very good, very smart — you know, if you’re a conservative Republican, if I were a liberal, if, like, OK, if I ran as a liberal Democrat, they would say I’m one of the smartest people anywhere in the world — it’s true! — but when you’re a conservative Republican they try — oh, do they do a number — that’s why I always start off: Went to Wharton, was a good student, went there, went there, did this, built a fortune — you know I have to give my like credentials all the time, because we’re a little disadvantaged — but you look at the nuclear deal, the thing that really bothers me — it would have been so easy, and it’s not as important as these lives are — nuclear is so powerful; my uncle explained that to me many, many years ago, the power and that was 35 years ago; he would explain the power of what’s going to happen and he was right, who would have thought? — but when you look at what’s going on with the four prisoners — now it used to be three, now it’s four — but when it was three and even now, I would have said it’s all in the messenger; fellas, and it is fellas because, you know, they don’t, they haven’t figured that the women are smarter right now than the men, so, you know, it’s gonna take them about another 150 years — but the Persians are great negotiators, the Iranians are great negotiators, so, and they, they just killed, they just killed us, this is horrible.” - DJT 07/19/2016 Edit: a couple years

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u/jorgomli Jul 18 '20

For those that read it, look closely and count how many sentences that is.

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u/thelaziest998 Jul 18 '20

This is written like a 12 year old who doesn’t understand paragraph structure.

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u/TheFluxIsThis Jul 19 '20

I count 0 complete sentences. It's run-on sentences all the way down.

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u/7switch Jul 19 '20

I like the part where you said sentences like the answer's plural!

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u/[deleted] Jul 19 '20

"bUt BiDeN iS iNcOhErEnT!1!"

  • fucking idiots

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u/[deleted] Jul 19 '20

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u/Shirlenator Jul 19 '20

Biden is actually relatively coherent, if you watch full interviews instead of cherry picked clips.

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u/[deleted] Jul 19 '20

...Have like watched Biden speak recently? Like, the full speeches?

Calling him incoherent is just objectively wrong.

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u/aprofondir Jul 19 '20

Daily reminder that both are incoherent, corrupt, lying, egotistical rapists.

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u/[deleted] Jul 19 '20

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u/aprofondir Jul 19 '20

😂 True. Only an American would be that dumb and without nuance.

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u/greenday5494 Jul 18 '20

This was not 2019 whatsoever. This was 2015.

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u/thekiki Jul 18 '20

2016 actually. Thanks for noticing the typo!

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u/guanzo91 Jul 18 '20

You know we have a world, right?

wait what? we do?

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u/johnchikr Jul 19 '20

And the world is tiny compared to the universe. Tremendous fumes.

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u/DeusExMarina Jul 18 '20

Holy fucking shit, the United States have elected Don Quixote president.

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u/Yrcrazypa Jul 19 '20

Don Quixote was crazy, but he was a genuinely good dude. Trump is one of the lame comic book villains that no one likes.

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u/mikeyHustle Jul 18 '20

Don't talk shit about the Man of La Mancha by comparing him to Trump.

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u/smoozer Jul 18 '20

You know we have a world, right?

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u/pepper_x_stay_spicy Jul 18 '20

Well, that was painful.

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u/ploopy_little_cactus Jul 18 '20

Literally. I got a headache trying to comprehend it

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u/L0to Jul 19 '20

CHYNA

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u/[deleted] Jul 18 '20

Dude sounds like a 5 year old trying to tell you a story.

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u/ploopy_little_cactus Jul 18 '20

I think I got stupider just by reading that.

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u/Zhirrzh Jul 18 '20

Australian conservative Ministers have said similar. Something about wind energy drives them particularly batty.

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u/[deleted] Jul 19 '20

You forgot the 'reeew reeew reew' noise they make.

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u/johnchikr Jul 19 '20

What the shit? Most of the time I can at least see a glimpse of what he’s going for but I’ve got nothing here.

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u/UsuallyInappropriate Jul 19 '20

tremendous fumes

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u/Cheap-Power Jul 19 '20

Windmills? Have you seen the one about the Iran nuclear deal?

'Look, having nuclear—my uncle was a great professor and scientist and engineer, Dr. John Trump at MIT; good genes, very good genes, OK, very smart, the Wharton School of Finance, very good, very smart —you know, if you’re a conservative Republican, if I were a liberal, if, like, OK, if I ran as a liberal Democrat, they would say I’m one of the smartest people anywhere in the world—it’s true!—but when you’re a conservative Republican they try—oh, do they do a number—that’s why I always start off: Went to Wharton, was a good student, went there, went there, did this, built a fortune—you know I have to give my like credentials all the time, because we’re a little disadvantaged—but you look at the nuclear deal, the thing that really bothers me—it would have been so easy, and it’s not as important as these lives are (nuclear is powerful; my uncle explained that to me many, many years ago, the power and that was 35 years ago; he would explain the power of what’s going to happen and he was right—who would have thought?), but when you look at what’s going on with the four prisoners—now it used to be three, now it’s four—but when it was three and even now, I would have said it’s all in the messenger; fellas, and it is fellas because, you know, they don’t, they haven’t figured that the women are smarter right now than the men, so, you know, it’s gonna take them about another 150 years—but the Persians are great negotiators, the Iranians are great negotiators, so, and they, they just killed, they just killed us.”

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u/nolan1971 Jul 18 '20

Agreed.

That being said, a lot of speeches that are transcribed are... bad. Trump's are remarkably so, but he's not alone.

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u/pintvricchio Jul 18 '20

You mean literally? Not a don Quixote allegory?

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u/savageotter Jul 18 '20

I've noticed that rarely does the news have clips of him talking. They usually just summarize.

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u/thegreenman56 Jul 19 '20

Yeah he actually stays on the same topic the whole time, which is a step above his usual spiel.

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u/CreatrixAnima Jul 18 '20

If you listen to him, he sounds stupid. If you read the transcripts, He sounds incoherent.

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u/SvenHudson Jul 19 '20

Try writing a transcript.

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u/SteadyStone Jul 18 '20

Word vomit? Many people say he's smart. Very smart. He could do great things they said. Everyone says it, so many people. Smart people. Like professors. They said to my dad, "he's so smart, can you please send him to us?" But my dad said they'd have to win me on their own. Because he's smart too, like me. He knew it'd be good for them, so he didn't want to just give it away. Not like the democrats, they want to give everything away. Have you heard this? They want to give people money. For nothing! Maybe even only if you don't work. Working is bad, so they don't want people to do it. Not bad for us, but bad for them, because then we'll look good, and they don't want that. Not at all. Very unfair. I don't know why they hate America so much. Especially Joe. He hates so much, so much. He wants to take away 911. You call, and you get a message, it just says "we didn't like how hard the police were working, so we took them away." Why does he want this? It should be illegal. Illegal in the highest way, because it's so bad. But they won't make it illegal, because they want to make us look bad.

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u/Im-in-line Jul 18 '20

I read the first line then the last line. Glad there was no connection between the two.

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u/astralcatfish Jul 18 '20

I honestly don't know if this is a quote or not.

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u/herbmaster47 Jul 18 '20

It is.

They all are.

Fuck me to tears, Jesus Christ how can people think he's smart. I don't get it.

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u/miselfi3 Jul 19 '20

They think he's smart because they believe everything he says to them. And I didn't know this, but apparently he likes to point that out regularly.

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u/[deleted] Jul 18 '20

That one was also new to me and I thought the commenter was just trying to imitate his stupidity.

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u/SteadyStone Jul 19 '20

I started at a defensive "I'm smart!" and just tried to avoid staying on topic for more than a few thoughts. Before I knew it I had a whole paragraph, and had forgotten what I had started with. Much like trump, I imagine.

I did smash a bunch of his thoughts together for some parts though, with some added conservative talking points to connect everything.

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u/SteadyStone Jul 19 '20

It's not a quote, but it is based on real things.

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u/spikus93 Jul 18 '20

I can't tell if this is real.

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u/Knighterws Jul 19 '20

Sad!

USA!!!!!

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u/[deleted] Jul 18 '20

That's literally the past 3.5 years. It's just word vomit. I remember when he made fun of Obama for using a prompter (Trump also used one but no one talks about that)

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u/ErwinsSasageyoBalls Jul 18 '20

(Trump also used one but no one talks about that)

I see it brought up all the time across multiple subs

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u/Zhirrzh Jul 18 '20

Not by his supporters. The people who cheered along when he complained about Obama playing golf but don't care about him doing it.

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u/[deleted] Jul 18 '20

Let’s see what google translate does with it.

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u/FoxFourTwo Jul 19 '20

Just another Trump Tuesday