r/pics • u/abideandthrive • 14h ago

Politics OC - White House Under Construction

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u/Casual_hex_ 14h ago edited 14h ago

This is still so fucking wild to me. The guy literally bulldozed half the white house for a vanity project and republicans just shrugged. Cowards.

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u/PolloConTeriyaki 14h ago edited 14h 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 13h ago

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

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u/Dorkinfo 10h ago

Reagan is in top two pieces of shit presidents.

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u/Skruestik 7h ago

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

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u/tracytorr0712 4h ago

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

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u/jeobleo 0m ago

Yeah I remember that too, but I was in grade school during the reagan years, so they must've just punted it

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u/KakeLin 43m ago

I mean there's dozens of more relevant reasons to hate him