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What does a TRUMP presidency look like?

Started by FunkMonk, November 08, 2016, 11:02:57 PM

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Keep in mind, this is the same guy that said he had to flush multiple times for his giganto dumps.
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Barrister

Isn't this just typical Trump?

Take an issue from 30+ years ago and present it as a modern day issue?  I can remember an episode from Married... With Children that revolved around Al Bundy hating his low-water flush toilet and smuggling in an new one.

In the meantime toilets are now better designed so they use less water and you usually don't have to flush multiple times.
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Admiral Yi

Quote from: Valmy on January 16, 2020, 04:12:24 PM
What the hell is he talking about?

He did spazz out about low flush toilets before.  I'm guessing this is related.  I'm also betting Fox and Friends mentioned it first.

Valmy

Quote from: Admiral Yi on January 16, 2020, 04:48:51 PM
Quote from: Valmy on January 16, 2020, 04:12:24 PM
What the hell is he talking about?

He did spazz out about low flush toilets before.  I'm guessing this is related.  I'm also betting Fox and Friends mentioned it first.

So get a high volume toilet? He is rich, he can easily afford it.

Things are so loud they will freak people out though :lol:
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Quote from: Barrister on January 16, 2020, 04:34:29 PM
Isn't this just typical Trump?

Take an issue from 30+ years ago and present it as a modern day issue?  I can remember an episode from Married... With Children that revolved around Al Bundy hating his low-water flush toilet and smuggling in an new one.

In the meantime toilets are now better designed so they use less water and you usually don't have to flush multiple times.

So Al Bundy finally achieved something and became POTUS...

Wait no, Al Bundy actually loves his wife and kids despite claiming otherwise.

Syt

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A massive 200 Billion Dollar Sea Wall, built around New York to protect it from rare storms, is a costly, foolish & environmentally unfriendly idea that, when needed, probably won't work anyway. It will also look terrible. Sorry, you'll just have to get your mops & buckets ready!

I thought walls work. :(
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Solmyr

Quote from: Syt on January 19, 2020, 12:30:11 PM
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A massive 200 Billion Dollar Sea Wall, built around New York to protect it from rare storms, is a costly, foolish & environmentally unfriendly idea that, when needed, probably won't work anyway. It will also look terrible. Sorry, you'll just have to get your mops & buckets ready!

I thought walls work. :(

Only if it's a flood of brown pipple.

Maladict

200 bn does sound a little excessive. Venice's flood barrier will cost around 5bn, the entire Dutch Delta Works cost 8 bn (in the 70s, granted).

jimmy olsen

Quote from: Maladict on January 20, 2020, 04:52:39 AM
200 bn does sound a little excessive. Venice's flood barrier will cost around 5bn, the entire Dutch Delta Works cost 8 bn (in the 70s, granted).

I'm sure Trump just made up the number.
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Maladict

Quote from: jimmy olsen on January 20, 2020, 06:56:20 AM
Quote from: Maladict on January 20, 2020, 04:52:39 AM
200 bn does sound a little excessive. Venice's flood barrier will cost around 5bn, the entire Dutch Delta Works cost 8 bn (in the 70s, granted).

I'm sure Trump just made up the number.

Aparently it's 119 billion, with the actual barrier at 'only' 12-18 billion. That sounds about right.


frunk

It's also a trivial amount compared to what's going to happen to Florida.

Admiral Yi

Quote from: Maladict on January 20, 2020, 07:30:04 AM
Aparently it's 119 billion, with the actual barrier at 'only' 12-18 billion. That sounds about right.

What costs 119 billion?

Maladict

Quote from: frunk on January 20, 2020, 07:31:49 AM
It's also a trivial amount compared to what's going to happen to Florida.

I'm not sure flood defenses can save a city like Miami. It may have to be given up, I guess politicians don't like to talk about that but they should.


Maladict

Quote from: Admiral Yi on January 20, 2020, 07:49:10 AM
Quote from: Maladict on January 20, 2020, 07:30:04 AM
Aparently it's 119 billion, with the actual barrier at 'only' 12-18 billion. That sounds about right.

What costs 119 billion?

Not sure, paywall:
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/17/nyregion/sea-wall-nyc.html

But I would guess the 12-18 is for the barrier across the Hudson estuary, plus a lot of shoring up of the coasts on Long Island and New Jersey