On the merits this is just one instance of administrative vandalism among many, but I'm always struck in stories like these by how inexpensive/efficient these legacy government programs are. A year of funding Energy Star is more or less Blake Snell's annual salary.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/06/c...
E.P.A. Plans to Shut Down the Energy Star Program
May 7, 2025 03:57The woke energy star label will be replaced with a gold label indicating that the manufacturer has given the president a big bag of cash
It’s gotta go. The whiniest priss in the history of politics doesn’t like the stickers
When I was growing up, you never saw the stickers that let you know if the big annoying purchase you were about to make would save you money over the time you owned it. Now you see them everywhere. What is going on??
Thank God. I was sick of saving money and helping the planet
It’s about 4 months of golf trips staffed by secret service.
And saved Americans $40 billion in energy costs annually. An absurd ROI.
“Administrative vandalism” is such a nice, succinct description of all this stuff
This Dwight Eisenhower quote has been circulating on here tonight, and it sucks, because yes, these people are stupid, but they won anyway.
Well now it's on the INJURED LIST just like BLAKE SNELL
They'll gut the stuff that works and doesn't, say it was all bad. Maybe Trump will at some point insinuate that saving electricity, folks, it's a little bit [creaky hand meaning "gay"].
That Super Hornet they dropped into the Red Sea would fund my 2,000-worker agency for over a month.
imagine how many federal parks workers could have kept their jobs for the price of a single bobby bonilla day
We're so marinated in "government pays $1k for a toilet seat!!" or whatever, but it turns out we really get lots of value for our tax dollars.
People are gonna wake up really soon to that reality and be shocked at how much vandalism Trump et al are doing.
But they were told Energy Star took away all of the best things we had and replaced them with stupid worse things... and they believed it. See trump melting down over low flow shower heads, mainly because its not enough force to powerwash the orange off his face anymore.
I very much am enjoying the presentation in terms of baseball salaries
Employee salaries are about 4% budget, but they are 90% of the problem, according to idiots. They would have traded Snell years ago for Rob Manfred.
Administrative vandalism. That’s a good characterization. “Looting” also works but seems too disorganized. “Theft” seems petty. (Growing numb to the impact of their destruction, she notices the adjectives instead of the actions).
“Administrative vandalism” is such a perfect term; as more and more funds are reallocated to cronies for half-ass efforts, it crosses into pure looting, but that simply couldn’t be because all of these assholes really care about the sovereignty of property, right?
It's because the Mango Moron still thinks you have to run your dishwasher 4 times to get stuff clean.
And because they want to deregulate everything and generally screw us all with inefficient crap.
What? Why? I am so confused by the things they are going after.
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it's all "virtue" signaling