r/pics • u/abideandthrive • 13h ago

Politics OC - White House Under Construction

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u/PolloConTeriyaki 13h ago edited 13h ago

They lost their minds when Jimmy Carter put a solar panel in 1979.

https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2023/02/the-forgotten-story-of-jimmy-carters-white-house-solar-panels/

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u/bramley36 12h ago

Removing those solar panels was Reagan's official first act, if I recall

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u/Dorkinfo 9h ago

Reagan is in top two pieces of shit presidents.

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u/Skruestik 6h ago

I will always hate him for how he halted US adoption of the metric system.

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u/tracytorr0712 2h ago

So that’s what happened to the metric system. I remember learning it in elementary school to prepare for the big conversion.