Credit Where Credit is Due: a shout out thread for Things Trump Did Right

[bilby]

Yeah, when you have one technology that's orders of magnitude safer than another, and a cost disparity as a consequence, the smart move is to regulate the "dangerous but cheap" option, rather than removing regulations on the "safe but expensive" option.

Require every way of making grid scale power to be equally safe, and set the bar at a consistent level that is somewhere toward the safer side of the current average. If some technologies <cough>coal<cough> then can't get up to standard without becoming uncompetitive due to the cost, then tough shit.

Review every twenty years, using the new average level of safety from the last decade.

Slap on a tax on pollution (of all kinds) that's equal to the cost of cleanup using currently available tech, and review that at similar intervals. Oh, and mandate that the revenue from that tax be spent actually cleaning up the mess.

Just throwing out the rulebook is a stupid way to proceed, and would only appeal to utter simpletons (and to the GOP, but I repeat myself...)

 

[TV and credit cards]

Shares of nuclear power companies closed higher on Friday after U.S. President Donald Trump signed executive orders seeking to jumpstart the industry. The orders direct the nation's independent nuclear regulatory commission to cut down on regulations and fast-track new licenses for reactors and power plants.

Yuck!

I'm pro-nuke. I also think the regulations are excessive because we should be looking at the risk from making power rather than the risk from making power by any given means. But I do not remotely expect him to do a sensible job of reviewing the regulations. (If nothing else, a sensible review of safety regulations should wipe coal based powerplants off the map. Coal is 10x as dangerous as oil which is 10x as dangerous as gas which is 10x as dangerous as nuclear. Everything else is basically bit players.)

Danger, schmanger. What you propose exists in a US devoid of politics. I would assume review of regulations will end with DoE Secretary Christopher Wright who at least isn't a frightening pick by Trump. Trump probably snatched him up because he was in the fracking industry and that appealed to Trump's childish sense of owning the libs. So, I would watch with interest rather than dismiss this out of hand.

 

[Swammerdami]

Nobody's bumped the Credit where Credit is due to Trump thread for a while. Did all you Democrats miss the dramatic lowering of drug prices that Trump is orchestrating?

Here's a good summary. In Trump's own words, drug prices will be reduced up to "500%, 1500%, numbers that are not even thought to be achievable."

 

[ZiprHead]

Nobody's bumped the Credit where Credit is due to Trump thread for a while. Did all you Democrats miss the dramatic lowering of drug prices that Trump is orchestrating?

Here's a good summary. In Trump's own words, drug prices will be reduced up to "500%, 1500%, numbers that are not even thought to be achievable."

So the drug companies will be paying us to take their drugs?

 

[Politesse]

Dang, I forgot to update this thread to approve of his promise to release the Epstein files before he inevitably reneged on it.

 

[Politesse]

Nobody's bumped the Credit where Credit is due to Trump thread for a while. Did all you Democrats miss the dramatic lowering of drug prices that Trump is orchestrating?

Here's a good summary. In Trump's own words, drug prices will be reduced up to "500%, 1500%, numbers that are not even thought to be achievable."

So the drug companies will be paying us to take their drugs?

Sounds like you're getting drugs from the wrong kinda dealers. The first one is always on the house, babe.

 

[Shadowy Man]

Nobody's bumped the Credit where Credit is due to Trump thread for a while. Did all you Democrats miss the dramatic lowering of drug prices that Trump is orchestrating?

Here's a good summary. In Trump's own words, drug prices will be reduced up to "500%, 1500%, numbers that are not even thought to be achievable."

So the drug companies will be paying us to take their drugs?

Sounds like you're getting drugs from the wrong kinda dealers. The first one is always on the house, babe.

Free is only a 100% reduction, though. Trump said it would be reduced even more than that!!

 

[Patooka]

Nobody's bumped the Credit where Credit is due to Trump thread for a while. Did all you Democrats miss the dramatic lowering of drug prices that Trump is orchestrating?

Here's a good summary. In Trump's own words, drug prices will be reduced up to "500%, 1500%, numbers that are not even thought to be achievable."

How do you "reduce up?"

 

[Swammerdami]

Nobody's bumped the Credit where Credit is due to Trump thread for a while. Did all you Democrats miss the dramatic lowering of drug prices that Trump is orchestrating?

Here's a good summary. In Trump's own words, drug prices will be reduced up to "500%, 1500%, numbers that are not even thought to be achievable."

How do you "reduce up?"

I don't know if you're serious, or if there's a dialectal difference in Englishes, but Wiktionary to the rescue!

up to (preposition) shows NINE definitions of this two-word preposition; it is #3 that applies above.

Wiktionary also mentions the 3-word preposition "of up to." That wouldn't work here, but "by up to" might be another 3-word preposition which I could have used for added clarity. Sorry.

 

[bilby]

"up to" is weasel words anyway.

"Save up to $1,000!" means "Save between $0 and $1,000", and a cynic would expect closer to $0 than to $1,000.

 

[James Brown]

Even better are the ads that say, "Save up to $1000 and more!"

 

[TV and credit cards]

"up to" is weasel words anyway.

"Save up to $1,000!" means "Save between $0 and $1,000", and a cynic would expect closer to $0 than to $1,000.

Even better are the ads that say, "Save up to $1000 and more!"

You can't afford not to!

I like to look on the bright side. When I buy something that might be, say, half off and in the ensuing days I come to the realization I bought something I never needed in the first place, at least I'll have the satisfaction of knowing I only wasted half as much money.

 

[Loren Pechtel]

Nobody's bumped the Credit where Credit is due to Trump thread for a while. Did all you Democrats miss the dramatic lowering of drug prices that Trump is orchestrating?

Here's a good summary. In Trump's own words, drug prices will be reduced up to "500%, 1500%, numbers that are not even thought to be achievable."

How do you "reduce up?"

Quit making the drug.

 

[bilby]

How do you "reduce up?"

Bubble hydrogen through a solution of up oxide.

 

[Loren Pechtel]

How do you "reduce up?"

Bubble hydrogen through a solution of up oxide.

You do it. I'm going to stay far, far away.

Your "UP oxide" I would assume was actually UPO4. Assuming the reactions actually work the results would be PH3, with an LD50 of 50ppm and UH3 for which an LD50 isn't really meaningful as it would spontaneously combust before being able to be inhaled. Said combustion products are quite dangerous.

 

[TV and credit cards]

So evidently Trump is responsible for the Thai/Cambodia ceasefire.
Exclusive: Trump's call broke deadlock in Thailand-Cambodia border crisis

First came a push from the Malaysian premier, then China reached out, but it was only after U.S. President Donald Trump called Thailand's leader last week that Bangkok agreed to talks with Cambodia to end an escalating military conflict.

*He'll be a shoo-in for a Nobel Peace Prize now. He'll probably demanded they nominate him for favorable tariff negotiations. Can you imagine Dickhead's acceptance speech? He'll be berating the Norwegian Nobel Committee for giving one to Obama. It will be shown on every channel and viewing is compulsory.


*No, not really.

 

[Swammerdami]

This thread has only been bumped twice in the last ten days?? We all know this board is mainly populated with Marxo-Wokeist non-believers, but we should keep an objective mind and give credit to cost savings Trump has implemented. But there are so many clever savings introduced by this great President: Where do we start? I'll just mention two that showed up in my news-feed today.

(1) I just learned that the White House Rose Garden has been paved over. Think of the water that will be saved! And -- what do you want to bet? -- the Garden was tended by brown- and yellow-skinned immigrants. They can be deported now. Real Americans provided the new paving.

Another change planned soon for the White House is the construction of a magnificent White House Ballroom! All decorated in gold. Citizens have been clamoring for this for 150 years. This magnificent gift from the Trump family will almost triple the total footprint of Trump's House!

Called the White House State Ballroom, the addition will be approximately 90,000 total square feet, which is significantly larger than the 55,000-square-foot White House as it stands now.

The cost is estimated at $200 million. It would have cost $250 million if done by a crooked Demoncrat, but Trump is renowned world-wide as the world's star negotiator, and will get it built for the $200 million pittance. Kudos to this great man!

The White House has instructed NASA employees to terminate two major, climate change-focused satellite missions.

As NPR reports, Trump officials reached out to the space agency to draw up plans for terminating the two missions, called the Orbiting Carbon Observatories. They've been collecting widely-used data, providing both oil and gas companies and farmers with detailed information about the distribution of carbon dioxide and how it can affect crop health.
... [one satellite] would meet its permanent demise after burning up in the atmosphere if the mission were to be terminated.

... the two observatories had been expected to function for many more years, scientists working on them told NPR. A 2023 review by NASA concluded that the data they'd been providing had been "of exceptionally high quality."

"Exceptionally high quality" lies is more like it. These "missions" just stoke the libidos of scientists entrapped in the climate-change hoax. Americans should be so proud to have this common-sense genius in charge, single-handedly saving America from Evils.

[Former NASA employee David] Crisp said it "makes no economic sense to terminate NASA missions that are returning incredibly valuable data," pointing out it costs only $15 million per year to maintain both observatories, a tiny fraction of the agency's $25.4 billion budget....

And -- wouldn't you know? -- the hoaxsters pretend that the annual $15 million cost of the missions is a pittance. Like all crooked Demoncrats they are delighted to be wasting taxpayer money. Simple arithmetic shows that in only 14 years the savings from foiling these crooked climate hoaxsters will more than pay for the gorgeous new Ballroom at Trump House.

 

[jonatha]

a magnificent White House Ballroom!

What does Trump need that for? (Surely you've seen him "dance"....)

 

[ZiprHead]

a magnificent White House Ballroom!

What does Trump need that for? (Surely you've seen him "dance" "Jacking off giraffes"....)

FTFY

 

[ZiprHead]

He died???