Trump Mourns 'All the Birds' Killed by Windmills, Stays Mum on 160K COVID Deaths

[UpInArms]

With a collapsing economy, mounting COVID-19 deaths, and sinking poll numbers, President Donald Trump on Tuesday night used a primetime interview to sound the alarm over what will surely go down in history as one of the worst atrocities of the 21st century: “all the birds” that keep getting sucked up and devoured by windmills.

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“We are doing more testing than any country in the world by far,” he groused, repeating a favorite gripe of his. “Because of that, we will have more cases. We are testing people. We have more cases. If you don’t test, you don’t have cases.”

“And that’s called fake news gold because they say cases, that’s all they say is talk about cases,” Trump continued. “But what we’re doing is the greatest testing anywhere in the world. The most on the best. Best quality. We are doing very well with that.”

For weeks now, the president has grumbled about testing, suggesting multiple times that the only reason cases skyrocketed in June and July is due to the increased number of overall tests. Trump, however, has ignored the fact that since mid-June, the positivity rate across the nation has risen precipitously and is still above 7 percent.

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https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-mourns-all-the-birds-killed-by-windmills-stays-mum-on-160k-covid-deaths

[Blues Heron]

1. this line just always makes my head hurt

and not in a good way.....

"If you don’t test, you don’t have cases.”

to coin a phrase what the actual fuck

[NRaleighLiberal]

2. the only birdies he knows or cares about are the ones he cheats his way

to as he drags his anvil form around the golf course

[Mike 03]

3. Yeah, the same guy who made it legal to shoot bear and wolf cubs in their dens.

Fuck Trump.

[Cicada]

4. Coal plant poisons kill thousands times more birds

It is tragic that windmills kill birds. We can minimize that by putting them where birds are not common and by other methods. But the toxic products of the coal power industry kill incredibly more birds.so putting up windmills to eliminate coal cuts bird deaths enormously.

[IADEMO2004]

5. Windmills vs Birds link Cats for the win.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_impact_of_wind_power#/media/File:Bird_mortality.svg

[Maeve]

8. Oilfield waste pits kill more than turbines

And tRump tower windows are right up there, too....

[eppur_se_muova]

6. Someone must have told him that seagulls can vote. nt

[Delarage]

7. It's because we count them more than other countries

If we stopped looking for dead birds, we wouldn't find any.

And where's the "It is what it is" attitude?

[EleanorR]

9. He hates windmills because he failed in his fight against the offshore wind farm in Scotland

The Trump Organization has agreed to pay $290,000 to the Scottish government, ending a multiyear legal battle in which Donald Trump tried and failed to block an offshore wind farm from being built in view of one of his Scottish golf courses.

Everything's always about him and his $. He doesn't give a damn about birds or people.