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Gordon McDowell's avatar

Thanks, this is a great summary and I didn't know half of it.

(Am Canadian... probably good to point that out.)

Wish Kamala Harris would clarify her support (or lack of) for nuclear power. While I don't expect Kamala to oppose nuclear power... I'd be quite surprised... any intelligent statements on nuclear are useful.

Unfortunately, Trump's longest statement on nuclear power...

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/remarks-president-trump-unleashing-american-energy-event/

...was similar to a recent (shorter) statement in that it was full of tangents. And in both Trump called coal clean. While one can lift a sound-bite from that, if Trump considers coal clean, I'm not sure what-all Trump actually thinks is clean about nuclear power?

Nuclear power IS CLEAN, but I'm wondering how-so Trump thinks coal is clean, and how-so nuclear is clean. And what's dirty?

I mean I'd love to ask similar basic questions of Kamal Harris too. But at least one can say nothing until asked, and that's fair. Trumps statements, like most of Trumps statements, pose more fresh questions than they answer.

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Bob Roberts's avatar

Look, having nuclear — my uncle was a great professor and scientist and engineer, Dr. John Trump at MIT; good genes, very good genes, OK, very smart, the Wharton School of Finance, very good, very smart — you know, if you're a conservative Republican, if I were a liberal, if, like, OK, if I ran as a liberal Democrat, they would say I'm one of the smartest people anywhere in the world — it's true! — but when you're a conservative Republican they try — oh, do they do a number — that's why I always start off: Went to Wharton, was a good student, went there, went there, did this, built a fortune — you know I have to give my like credentials all the time, because we're a little disadvantaged — but you look at the nuclear deal, the thing that really bothers me — it would have been so easy, and it's not as important as these lives are — nuclear is so powerful; my uncle explained that to me many, many years ago, the power and that was 35 years ago; he would explain the power of what's going to happen and he was right, who would have thought?

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