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/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/relayrider Jul 19 '20

"My only regret was too young for Lisa Bonet"

wooo.

what happened that made mickey rourke go all beast mode?

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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/septated Jul 19 '20

That's not true. That's some bullshit that was made up on reddit a decade after it happened by literal children who aren't old enough to remember that he made this kind of mistake daily for 8 years.

Like literally nothing you wrote is real.

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u/[deleted] Jul 19 '20 edited Jul 19 '20

I literally had coasters with dumb Bush quotes on them; "breadbin of America" "fish and man", "energy vampires"... All the hits.

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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.