Dakota Beacon

SALLY MORRIS: DONALD TRUMP –  WHICHEVER WAY THE WIND BLOWS

In so many instances we have seen that Donald Trump has held mutually exclusive points of view on some very important issues.  He was “for” unlimited immigration before he was “against” it; he was “pro-choice” before he was “pro-life”.  He has been all over the map on nearly every issue, depending, it seems, entirely on which position advances his own personal interests the most at any given moment.

Now we find yet another illustration of this double standard.  A couple of weeks or so ago in Iowa, a state many of whose voters are heavily invested in speculation on wind power, Trump stood before them and advocated wind power generation and further, that it would need and should have significant government subsidization.  He then appeared on the O’Reilly factor and noted in a hedgy sort of way that the windmills are massively killing birds, mentioning the irony that there is a huge fine in California for killing a bald eagle, but the windmills are slicing and dicing them regularly.  

We could catalog the misconceptions surrounding the efficacy of wind farms and discuss their fatal flaws and hopeless inadequacies, but setting this aside for now, let’s look at Trump’s own history with wind power generation issues.

It seems that while Trump the Candidate advocates for wind power in Iowa, Trump the Mega Business Tycoon happens to own a golf course and resort in Aberdeenshire, in northeastern Scotland.  The Scottish government has invested in development of wind power energy development in the Shetlands and in Aberdeen Bay.

Trump attempted (and failed) to become a party to a lawsuit to halt the Shetlands project in a sort of pre-emptive strike of sorts, which was joined to protect a rare bird that was endangered by the windmills.  That project was halted as a result and the Scottish government is now appealing the decision.  But Trump then tried using it as a precedent to stop the wind farm project he really cares about – the one in his own backyard, Aberdeen Bay.  This is reminiscent of the Ted Kennedy's more successful effort to stop this kind of wind development in Massachusetts.  I mean, there is a limit to how green we should get at home.  So far Trump has lost his case, but he, too, is promising an appeal – just as soon, presumably, as he wins the Iowa caucus and can resume wearing his Tycoonskin cap. 

America has been beaten to a bloody pulp by Democrat-Socialists who wish to destroy our own successful system and way of life and by their allies, Republicans In Name Only who lie to get elected promising to stop them and then, once in office, sell us out.  We should have had enough of this kind of shameless deceit and betrayal.  Those patriots who agree should beware of Donald Trump as a “leader”.  When a candidate flip-flops his position once, he’s more than likely to flip-flop it again once he has bilked us of our vote.  Watch out.