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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump attacks on wind turbines, low-flow toilets and LED lightbulbs set up key campaign clash
with DemocratsPALM BEACH, Fla. While Democratic presidential candidates have called for sweeping measures to eliminate the U.S. carbon footprint, President Trump is promising voters a world free of the everyday inconveniences associated with combating climate change rolling back lightbulb regulations, ordering a study on low-flow toilets and turning bans on plastic straws into a campaign rallying cry.
The contrast is shaping up to be a key theme of the 2020 presidential race as Trump bets that his pitch to a bygone era will sway voters turned off by calls from some Democrats on the left for a transformative Green New Deal.
Democrats respond by arguing that the presidents comments on climate which are often false and frequently veer into the bizarre are out of step with science and modern-day voters who want to protect the planet.
Trumps anti-environmentalism message was encapsulated in a weekend speech to a conservative group in South Florida that included a diatribe against wind-powered turbines arguing that building them produces a tremendous amount of fumes and that the windmills, as he calls them, are noisy, unattractive and kill too many birds.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/elections-2020/trump-attacks-on-wind-turbines-low-flow-toilets-and-led-lightbulbs-set-up-key-campaign-clash-with-democrats/ar-BBYhJN9?li=BBnb7Kz
Guess Trump wants the GOP to continue being "the stupid party."
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Trump attacks on wind turbines, low-flow toilets and LED lightbulbs set up key campaign clash (Original Post)
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
Dec 2019
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IcyPeas
(21,889 posts)1. Just imagine if the Dems
made some campaign ads out of these comments with a laugh track... or billboards, or something, but they won't . Why? I wish they would.
muntrv
(14,505 posts)2. He wants to ban these?
Dagstead Bumwood
(3,642 posts)3. Well, yeah.
Just look at all of the dangerous fumes coming off of that thing
Submariner
(12,504 posts)4. Floridians voted Ricky Scott, a medicare fraud crook, as governor,
and after he destroyed the state's environmental protection agencies and its protective regulations, Floridians then voted Red Tide Rick to become a state senator with dead dolphins, manatees and fish washing up on their beaches.
I bet Red Tide Rick accompanied the orange turd last night, rallying the same people who voted for him to go ahead and continue destroying the Florida environment as long as it pisses off the libs.
Trump said he likes ignorant voters, so his new hometown is nirvana for an anti-environmentalist.