Youngkin sends letter to Biden Administration over rooftop solar panels at Pentagon

[mahatmakanejeeves]

Youngkin sends letter to Biden Administration over rooftop solar panels at Pentagon

Tyler Englander
1 day ago

RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) – Governor Glenn Youngkin is crying foul over solar panels set to be installed at the Pentagon. … In January, the U.S. Department of Energy announced that the Pentagon would be getting $21 million, with some of the money going toward installing rooftop solar panels.

Youngkin sending a letter to U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin saying the program the money comes from, created by the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law doesn’t have “any stated requirement that such panels be made in America using American technology.”

Youngkin goes on to say, “This decision brings into question whether American taxpayer dollars will be used to purchase solar equipment from the Chinese Communist Party.”

However, the program requirements tell a different story. According to documentation on the Department of Energy’s website, the program in question is affected by an executive order signed by President Joe Biden in 2021 saying federal agencies “shall adhere to requirements of the Made in America Laws in making clean energy, energy efficiency, and clean energy procurement decisions.”

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[riversedge]

1. seems he did not read the bill before he started yacking!

[GB_RN]

6. Oh, I Bet He Did...

He’s counting on 1) the average Faux Spews viewer to be ignorant of the entire bill; 2) the Democrats’ seemingly permanent inability to fight back and message appropriately; and 3) the sure fire knowledge that the “lib’rul media” won’t cover this and/or play the “both sides” game.

This is nothing but a chance for him to look like he’s on the side of “Real ‘Muricans™️” and hint that the Democrats are China-appeasing traitors*.

*Pick your favorite insult out of the GOPQ bucket, if you like.

[onecaliberal]

7. How do we not message appropriately, the fucking media is fascist.

[GB_RN]

9. To Answer Your Question...

The GOPQ has it mastered: They message with shit that will fit in a bumper sticker. While we give college-level…lectures, for lack of a better word (not quite the word I’m looking for, but you get the idea).

I not attacking the Democrats. We’re just more cerebral. Granted, a lot of what we’re for won’t fit on a bumper sticker, but when we do stuff like not defend ourselves (the Affordable Care Act, for example). We let the Repukes frame issue and the attitude was “the news media should tell the truth.” I think it was Tim Russert, Chucky Toad or Dancin’ David Gregory who basically said that wasn’t their job; IOW, saying that they’re stenographers. So, we also have that barrier to deal with.

And here I am being…cerebral. lol. Point being, they use the KISS principle. We…don’t.

🖖

[onecaliberal]

12. They own the media. How hard is that?

You can’t really think they are going to get our message out. If tv networks are fascist what exactly do you suggest they do? That they’re not already doing?

[TomSlick]

10. Exactly.

Youngkin knew good and well. He also knew that the MAGAts did not know - or much care.

[COL Mustard]

21. Don't forget:

The solar panels were recycled from Hunter Biden’s laptop and funded by Soros!!!

[brush]

2. Youngkin has nothing better to do than complaint with disinformation about solar panels...

at the Pentagon?

Come on guv, you can do better.

[erronis]

11. And a lot of VA voters work at that building and understand science better than Ykin.

Many may be to the right but most are not stupid. This could actually piss off a few younkin/trumpkins.

[Think. Again.]

3. The rightwingers are getting a little nervous...

...about their sugar daddie's fossil fuel profits drying up.

[Traildogbob]

4. Hey Youngkin

Take your gripe to South Florida about now. Just opposing solar panels and outlawing the use of the word climate change, ain’t getting through to ole Mamma Nature. Maybe Texas, Idaho, Arkansas, and all the red tornado ally states will sign up with your bitching letter. That’ll fix it all.
Not enough paper towels from your Messiah down there at Mardi Lardo to help south Florida right now either.
Damn why can’t that shit hole golf course take a fucking hit? He’s the one shitting all over Gods rep, and being compared to Jesus as a felon.
Gods acting like a Scared republican, just let Trump run all over him and his rules.Has to be a him, no female God would allow this shit.
MAGA repubs wake the fuck up. This is no hoax.

[Arne]

5. He's already claimed insurance

on massive damages from the storm that didn't come
near mar lagoo.

[Traildogbob]

8. This shit

Is never gonna end. The criminal GQP cancer has Metastasized so deep into every nook, the country is terminal. Hospice can’t even help ease the pain and despair of facing the end.
Every day more is found.
Climate apocalypse may be the only way to end it all, and we all go with it.
The earth will thrive after. Everything is God’s plan right.
He is cleansing the world of his biggest mistake. Like before.

[Maraya1969]

19. My insurance went up over 100% from that hurricane! And part of the reason what that little slug?

And the devastation that so many experienced from it was just awful. They are right when they call him a sadist - he has been diagnosed a sociopath which includes sadism.

[erronis]

13. Great rant! Keep on, please!

[HUAJIAO]

14. Republicans always seem to get off on calling it the Chinese COMMUNIST party.

[GreenWave]

16. And hope and pray nobody calls them servants of the Russian Communist Party.

[oldsoftie]

17. Well, that IS what "CCP" stands for. Call them what they are.

How is that wrong.

[Bev54]

15. Maybe Youngkin should stay in his lane, he is no better at this than any other republican.

[liberal N proud]

18. republican clowns are owned by the oil barons

[Warpy]

20. Oh, fuck off Youngkin

Because of Republican intransigence, the Chinese were pretty much able to make off with that industry too.

Iff your bunch hadn't been bitching about the inconvenience of trethinking energy sources, maybe every single building in DC would have panels by now and most of them would be made here.

So shut your hypocritical trap and move on, asshole, and may your next run for office end not in defeat, but in utter humiliation.

[mopinko]

23. my new array was made here, rt in the chgo burbs.

this in on a rental. have them on my home, 3 yrs old, and the new 1s r about 30% more efficient.
we shd b putting them on every possible govt bldg. start w schools. they need the money.

[slightlv]

22. I guess we can assume

Youngkin can't read English? Or, at the very least, has no verbal comprehension.

[Martin68]

24. Republicans like Youngkin just can't help themselves. Logic and rational thought fail them when

they are confronted with improvements in green energy because they are opposed to it in principle, being wedded to the idea of the superiority of the hydrocarbon extraction industry which shares a little of their obscene profits with sympathetic politicians like Youngkin. Solar panels on the Pentagon!!!! Horrors!!!! Must be a communist plot!!!!