I didn't know Donald Trump is an expert on wind power.

[JohnnyRingo]

I just read that in his CPAC ramble he explained the pros and cons of wind power to his under-informed republican base. Actually, there were no pros, just a con. The media missed this technological nugget as they focused on his senseless blundering instead.

"When the wind stops blowing, that's the end of your electricity." "Let's hurry up darling, is the wind blowing today? I'd like to watch television, darling".

And I guess that's why we don't see wind farms and wind mills in America, and we never will. He probably learned about science in a course at Trump University.

[bearsfootball516]

1. That quote from him was a different level of stupid.

[TheBlackAdder]

31. Expert: X is an unknown quantity; Spurt is a drip under pressure.

[Orangepeel]

2. He's an expert on hot air

[riversedge]

26. #1

[Aristus]

3. Because when the wind stops, it never starts back up again. We live in a windless world.

And nobody has ever invented a means of storing electricity, like a battery or something. We live in a battery-less world.

[JohnnyRingo]

21. I imagine he throws away three iPhones a week..

...after they stop working.

If only there was a way to replenish all that electricity in the phone.

[unitedwethrive]

4. We do have wind farms in America.

In fact, I can see one off in the distance as I look out of my office window in Northern California right now. It's just that we don't have enough of them.

[mr_lebowski]

15. Altamont? Yeah, only been there since like the 1970's IIRC ... no later than the 80's I know that

for sure.

Drove through that pass so many times I can't even count ... it's actually super-cool looking esp. when lots of 'em are on and spinning.

[JohnnyRingo]

22. Send a pic to the White House.

Because he doesn't think they work, and worse, his supporters don't think so. The president seems to believe people in Northern Cal sit in the dark when the wind dies down.

I know sarcasm doesn't translate on the internet, but everyone but him and apparently the idiots at CPAC knows there are wind farms.

[Solly Mack]

5. Worse. His supporters think he's right.

All that stupid in one place...an explosion of ignorance.

[unblock]

6. but we will never run out of oil

[FakeNoose]

11. Before petroleum, it was whale oil

Another bad decision made by non-scientists.

[Autumn]

7. You do know he knows everything? Just ask him.

[musette_sf]

8. in related news

https://slate.com/human-interest/2019/03/bad-farts-husband-sex-advice.html

[Caliman73]

9. I hate when that happens!

I mean, I don't use wind power but I have solar and damn when it's a cloudy day and I have to sit in the dark!

That man is exceptionally stupid. He's never heard of batteries I guess.

[JohnnyRingo]

23. He throws away three cell phones a week.

They just stop working.

[John Fante]

29. Six. The other three he accidently drops in the toilet.

[gratuitous]

10. He'd like to think he is

In 2012, when Scotland was looking to site a wind farm off the coast adjacent to one of Trump's golf courses, he testified at some hearing against the windmills being installed. He ranted, he railed, and he claimed that there were experts who could testify that the site wasn't suitable for a wind farm. When the person in charge of the hearing finally got a word in edgewise to ask who some of these experts might be, Trump blustered, "I am the expert!" The room erupted in laughter.

[duforsure]

12. HE is an expert on ...

...Using bait and switch tactics on his supporters that believe his tax scam would help them when he stole money out of their pockets for the wealthy instead. He also used it claiming he wouldn't touch Social Security , Medicare , and Medicaid then he and the gop passed their tax scam bill which took just under 2 trillion out of those programs. He just keeps these supporters believing his crap, then screws them over and tells them to like it because he's so great. Lets see he also promised to make health care more affordable , and for everyone, and with better coverage, but again did the opposite kicking millions off of their plans and allowed drug and premiums prices to skyrocket after saying he wouldn't , but took millions from big pharma. Again his supporters were taken to the cleaners with his bait and switch tactics. They're slow learners I guess.

[stopbush]

13. He knows a lot about farting.

Comes with his chronic explosive diarrhea.

[irisblue]

14. All the way back to '06, because of his Scottish Golf Course.

Source-https://qz.com/1291269/the-scottish-wind-farm-donald-trump-tried-to-block-is-now-complete/

Snip--"Trump himself expressed concern about the 2003 plans to build the offshore wind farm, just after he had bought a seaside estate near the town of Balmedie in Aberdeenshire in 2006. “I am not thrilled,” Trump said then. “I want to see the ocean, I do not want to see windmills.” Then in 2011, after formal construction plans were submitted, Trump filed a complaint to the Scottish government against the “the horrible idea of building ugly wind turbines directly off Aberdeen’s beautiful coastline.” Trump’s golf course opened in 2012."

Lots more there.

[leftyladyfrommo]

16. He is still pissed off at the windmills near his

Golf course in Scotland. There was a big tadoo over that.

[JohnnyRingo]

25. I forgot about that!

He probably already practiced that line when he was trying to talk them out of it. Didn't work.

[ooky]

17. He certainly delivers a lot of wind!

[DavidDvorkin]

18. He's an expert on everything

Just ask him.

[blogslut]

19. Wind energy works in conjunction with existing energy generation.

In other words, if the wind stops blowing, (which is rare because all it takes for the turbines to work is a light breeze) the system reverts to whatever source.

FYI Texas is the largest supplier of Wind Energy in the United States. Where I live, our turbines mostly only shut down because the wind is too strong. Yet somehow the electricity never stops. Funny that.

[Totally Tunsie]

20. So I guess he doesn't like solar either

because, you know...night.

Let's be honest - If bozo could find away to make a dollar off every turbine, he'd be out there humping every producer, every municipal leader, every congressman and senator in order to get them installed.

[JohnnyRingo]

24. Big Coal and Big Oil have a loud voice from where he sits.

Big Wind is what he hears after his midnight snack from Taco Bell.

[malaise]

27. Don't you know he's an expert on everything

What's more he is pissed that he has to pay for the court costs related to his objection to the wind farms in Scotland.

[D_Master81]

28. Anything that doesnt fit the GOP worldview

is deemed stupid. Has anyone on the left discussed going strictly to wind power? C'mon

[Blue Owl]

30. Thar he blows...

n/t

[Yavin4]

32. Given his diet...

he'll never have to worry about a shortage of wind.