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Trump bizarrely claims Democrats want to ban cows and windows in buildings
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 16 Oct 2024
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Well he isn't exactly wrong.
No cows would drastically cut methane emissions and not having windows would conserve energy and cut greenhouse gas emissions related to energy production.
Cutting greenhouse gas emissions and energy conservation are two progressive goals(democrat talking points).
Would it help? Yeah
But do democrats want to ban windows? Yeah I'm going to go out on a limb and say I doubt it.
Ban cows? Yeah again I doubt it.
It is more about an extreme understanding of the issue reduced to simple talking points. Democrats say cows are a problem, so they want to ban them. Democrats want to make buildings more efficient and windows are a big source of inefficiency, Democrats want to ban windows.
Trump exerts influence on simple minds through simple statements that cause outrage by distilling complex issues into logical extremes that offend people who can't bother to understand complex issues. That is why he is so widely liked, he is the junk food of politics.
That last line says it all.
"When Trump says the Dems want to kill everyone, he isn't exactly wrong. That would reduce crime to zero, and also lead to a total collapse in the votes for the Republican party..."
That's the same structure as your argument. Seems hyperbolic, yes?
Im not sure if not having windows would actually do that or not, I mean, yes, they present an issue for insulation and let heat in during the summer, but those issues can be mitigated with good design on the part of the window glass itself, the placement of it, or structures around it like awnings, and they also do things like let light in that would otherwise need to be artificial, be opened to allow fresh air in during times when the outside is cooler than the inside, and allow for view of green spaces that helps with mental health and which otherwise would require more indoor space be made available to fit indoor plants to get the same benefit. I feel like having well designed and placed windows probably do more good than harm.
Windows are great, but they can not perform the same insulative properties as thermal bridge mitigating walls. A triple pane window has an R-value of 7-8, a typical wall without a thermal envelope and thermal bridging mitigation is R13-23. With anti-hermal bridging and thermal envelope a wall can get to R40 or higher.
If you want the most energy efficient home, it would have no windows and multiple doors as entry points.
Why multiple doors?
Insulation and preventing losses.
Nobody has used the word “ban” though
Except in the title
The part that is Trump's lying quote?
True, but Trump likes simple words to convey simplified ideas to simple minds. Reducing beef consumption to zero is a ban by any other name. Increasing taxes on beef production until it is unprofitable is a defacto ban.
Which significant Democrat has proposed any of that? What makes anything you said relevant?