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President Trump was in Cincinnati, Ohio, on Thursday night for another campaign rally. It wasnt much different from any of his others. The president bashed Democratic presidential candidates as socialists, trashed liberal-leaning cities as crime-ridden, and railed against undocumented immigrants. All standard fare. So too were his attacks against windmills, which have strangely become a semi-regular feature of the Trumps speech set list.
If a windmill is within two miles of your house, your house is practically worthless, he said, unprompted, on Thursday. They make noise, theyre intermittent, they kill your birds, they break down all the time, you have to replace them every 10 years because they wear out, they cost a fortune, and they need subsidy. Other than that theyre quite good.
You dont want one of those windmills within vision, he continued. You hear them. Theyre noisy. They have a lot of problems.
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Trump has railed against windmills and wind energy on several occasions since taking office. The grudge that is likely the result of the U.K. Supreme Court ruling in 2015 that the Trump Organization was unable to block the construction of a wind farm Trump argued would sully the views from his golf course in Aberdeen, Scotland. The Trump Organization was ordered to pay Scotlands legal bills from the case, and the wind farm was erected in 2018.
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-windmills-cancer-cure-yelling-866587/
Wounded Bear
(58,828 posts)Marie Marie
(9,999 posts)rampartc
(5,465 posts)I like when he says windmills cause cancer.
icymist
(15,888 posts)greatauntoftriplets
(175,786 posts)RainCaster
(10,977 posts)It made his little mushroom shrivel even more.
greatauntoftriplets
(175,786 posts)Scotland the Brave.
Martin Eden
(12,894 posts)Hair Twitler still engages the services of Russian prostitutes on a regular basis. One of them has too much carotene in her diet.
greatauntoftriplets
(175,786 posts)Scurrilous
(38,687 posts)safeinOhio
(32,807 posts)lots of windmills. The local paper reported a significant increase in property values. Reported the farmers are getting between $600 to $800 per month in rent. 10 or 20 of those and they can stop growing beans.
murielm99
(30,805 posts)We get paid. It helps, especially this year, with all the rain and crop damage.
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)guess those Membership Checks to the tune of a half Million from the Koch Brothers are clouding your judgement. Say what,you don't have a clear judgement!
We see and hear the Koch lobbyist messages 24/7 hear in the Southwest. It has taken the Citizens of Nevada two Referendums to beat back those messages. Now if we could get our Wind Farms built without their interference.
Turbineguy
(37,444 posts)is the people who attend these shindigs allow themselves to be photographed.
NBachers
(17,210 posts)Thanks to DU'er jpak
https://www.democraticunderground.com/1127130272
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)Arghhhh! He is SUCH an asshole! I just hate him with a fiery passion. Look at him up there in front of his brain-dead worshippers. He thinks he is so cute and clever. He really thinks he is something when he's in front of them. They are ALL fucking idiots.
There is no bottom to my hatred for this man. Everything about him repulses me more than infestations of the filthiest vermin.
keithbvadu2
(37,131 posts)Then Donald will be closing his Scottish golf course, of course...
to protect the health of his employees and players.
Danascot
(4,703 posts)they would have said, "Of course everything you just heard is total bullshit."
Liberal In Texas
(13,643 posts)Of course everything he says is disturbing. But the sycophants who go along with the bullshit....now that's really disturbing.
ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)Until the idiot comes along and fucks them over but good.
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