Trump announced that he plans to sign an executive order next week to end the promotion of paper straws as an alternative to plastic ones. So much for the sea turtles.
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“Mango Mussolini to open investigation into businesses that aren’t actively ruining environment. Comparing them to evil businesses that hire more than just white guys”
My defiant ass will use metal straws. Every word out of his mouth is such an embarrassment to our country. Whatever happened to his wranglers to keep him somewhat coherent in public?
For someone who campaigned on ending Big Govt's meddling in everyday life, he and his Govt/DOGE minions are spending an awful lot of energy meddling in everyday life.
I stopped using straws a long time ago. They’re convenient if you want to sip your soda while driving but that’s it. And only if it’s a soft drink bought at a drive in. I just get bottles or cans. Preferably cans because I can recycle.
"All beverages must henceforth be served directly IN a seaturtle and all straws are to be replaced WITH seaturtles. Or else guys. We're super serious."
People in this country are hungry, homeless, and now unemployed. And now he's worried if people are going suck his butt through a paper or plastic straw.
He's going to make an EO requiring us to only use plastic, and all restaurants are going to freak that they will be closed by health inspector and insist everyone buy 2 plastic straws with every meal
All CCTV systems will be fitted with AI to recognize reusable straws and a team of agents will be deployed shortly upon detection to tackle you to the ground and force a minimum of four plastic straws into your drink to compensate for the crime of caring about waste reduction
Yeah - according to Trump the paper ones don't work anyway so he's doing everyone a favour.
So it's back to petroleum-based plastic to help with further global warming and continue to pollute the ocean and all living things with micro-plastics.
Recycled e waste and nano plastics ahoy. Invest in filtration and reverse osmosis systems as MAGA rallies the fight to use potable water to flush and water utilities continue to restrict programs that reduce gal usage like gray water systems and cisterns. Their cash flow is in gallons used.
Another big win for CHINA! United States imports most of its Plastic Straw from China, Vietnam, and South Korea.Globally, the top three importers of Plastic Straw are United States, Vietnam, and India. United States leads the world in Plastic Straw imports.
Can’t force it, would have the paper pulp people after him again just stopping promotion to make the oil sands people happy, next will be encourage paper plate use cause is no ceramics lobby and ban non-American metal silverware due to “possible Chinese contaminants” for the PET and Metal peeps duh
Drinking through straws has similar effects to taking a drag on a cigarette, those lines around your lips as you age, give up straws to look younger and help ocean life.
This just makes me so sad. It took sooooo long to get to this point (paper instead of plastic)- waaaaay too long- and now this, out the window- like everything else good.😭
Paper straws... Not enough to really do any good, just enough to piss most people off. Have to wonder if that was the intent of it... Turning people against reducing plastics.
They need to do or announce at least one batshit crazy thing per day (they aim for three) to keep everyone off balance. The media usually manage to report one, but it’s nearly impossible to keep track of all of them. It’s at least in part a deliberate strategy.
Hate to tell him but my local zoo ain’t gonna do nothing different. Can’t even get a straw because they are bad for the environment and the animals in it!
Middle ‘Merica still uses plastic mostly so not sure who he is targeting? He just doesn’t want his star getting soggy in his Diet Coke. Such a numpty. Despise him more every single day. 🐢
"Today I Make America Great Again by signing the most beautiful executive order banning sporks....no more will people have to deal with these NASTY and confusing tools of the democRATS!! Goodbye sporks, hello beautiful forks and spoons"
Ughhhh I just want to scream!!! I’m so angry I’m bawling why do people think this is ok?! Our earth humanity the animals I can feel my ancestors cries.
Is there no lows to which the orange turd who is trying to run the USA and the earth into the ground? Plastic straws are a thing of the past in civilized countries worldwide. Paper straws work just fine and don’t have much environmental repercussions. Fucking loser. 🖕🏻🖕🏻🖕🏻🖕🏻🖕🏻
Love from Canada. 🇨🇦
It’s more of his ridiculous distractions. He doesn’t want us to see the Treasury being robbed before our very eyes. What’s worse is they have our direct deposit info. Can they take money out of our checking accounts?????
Or it’s a call-out to all the MAGA voters who just lost their jobs or got left with contracts that aren’t being paid or can’t afford their rent cos of frozen payments that it’s all worth it to end the woke green agenda.
Here’s the good news: only 0.03% of the plastic in our oceans are plastic straws. While plastic straws are still “bad”, the majority of the plastic in our oceans is fishing gear. Overfishing & bycatch are WAY more impactful than plastic straw use!
You can still use your own metal straws instead :)
Ah yes, woke, code word large industries push so they can dodge regulations and earn a few pennies more while they destroy the only planet we have. These people are killing their own children and grandchildren too, and don't even care
All you have to do is have a meeting with him and say, "Father Time says you're a doofus" and he'll start his campaign against it for you--he is the most easily manipulated person in the world
Anti-“woke” is a powerful force. In Australia we just had a beer company run a campaign to donate to National Parks and they shut it down - so “woke” that you’d think they’d put a trans woman’s face on a single 6-pack of cans the way they were posting videos of destroying their beer.
It doesn't. It's political posturing, just like the executive order to the commerce department to do everything possible to reduce prices. It's meaningless.
I understand the need for Executive Orders but trump is mis-using EOs. Abusing EOs. I dont know enough about the working of politics and law to know how to stop or fix this - who does who's listening and here? (but I can fix other things like a badass)
Does this mean plastic straw makers are going back to their factories? I can't wait to see the boost in the next jobs report. (written with dripping sarcasm)
The strategy is clear: turn every dumb, senseless grievance of the average ignorant nostalgia-drunk boomer into an executive order. Plastic straws today, what’s next—mandatory gas-guzzlers and rotary phones? #MakePettyGreatAgain
I haven't used a plastic straw in years.
He can stop promoting them, but there are plenty of organizations that promote paper or metal straws.
Hate is hate-what a despicable human.
This is turning into satirical BS. These aren't real and we can just ignore them. They do what they want, we should too. Just over-right them like they are doing. Stop playing their fucking game.
Yep. And not everybody can even use paper straws. There's a range of disabilities that can affect people's ability to eat and drink so that a plastic straw is a necessary disability aid. Taking the plastic straws away is not going to solve our plastic pollution problem, and it hurts disabled people.
People are "engouraged" to switch to paper straws...it's not a law, it's just a policy...this is how you get people to switch to better alternatives. Like discouraging smoking. People still smoke. Anyone who medically needs a straw undoubtedly travels with their own.
I think his brain might explode over the conflict between wanting to hurt people he deems "lesser" and wanting to do the opposite of anything he thinks might be viewed as "woke."
Hm. Disabled people know they need them and can bring their own metal ones, no? The vast majority could drink directly from the cup with no straw at all....
Yes, that's correct. The orange felon is pushing back against paper straws bc they've been promoted as environmentally friendly, and he sees any effort to protect the environment as "woke" and therefore bad.
No, not everyone can drink without a straw. Here's a handy chart that lays out some of the problems with straws made of various alternative materials. Plus, if able-bodied people don't have to bring their own straws everywhere, why should disabled ppl have to?
I very rarely run into paper straws, so I don't carry my own straw with me. But some (not all) paper straws contain gluten, and with celiac I can't use them.
I've had drinks where I've had to pass on the straw and they were really difficult to drink without it.
They can get reusable plastic straws. I've been using the same reusable straw every day for years. It's not that hard to do your part to help the planet.
I fail to see how this makes America great. Like, do his dipshit cult members really think paper fucking straws are a real enough problem that the goddamn POTUS should be using his executive powers to fight? FFS...we are held prisoner on a dying rock by the dumbest motherfuckers to ever exist...
Sorry, I love the environment, but if we keep clogging up the news with more things for people to be overwhelmed by they will log out and forget that Elon and DOGE still haven't been stopped. We can rebuild environmental efforts easier than we can reform America as we know it.
Here's the thing as much as we are suffering with this we have to do everything in our power to keep him and the rest of them alive. There's a renewed energy and a focused momentum and it's going to go somewhere the mathematical probabilities of it are too high from a sociological perspective.
He just visited Asheville North Carolina and told them out here and was going to take care of us. I don’t see how freezing our funding and getting rid of fucking straw promotions helps. It affects nothing. I don’t even use straws..
I thought the Republicans were all about less government oversight, I guess everyone is realizing it truly is just about wealth and power accumulation instead
People could always just drink straight from the glass,if Trump cand figure out how to suck through a paper straw then maybe he's not as smart as he thinks.
He can do what he wants but we can pressure individuals, and companies, to migrate away from such harmful plastic items. Even Elon believes in renewable resources, electric vehicles, and solar energy.
Straws?!!? Does he own a plastic straw manufacturing company? I bought stainless steel straws to take when eating out because l actively care about our environment.
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Can’t make this stuff up.
Disclaimer: I don't use straws. But Charlton Heston would have approved.
I love random turtles I will NEVER meet 100% more than that pestilent putrid pisspoor putz.
So it's back to petroleum-based plastic to help with further global warming and continue to pollute the ocean and all living things with micro-plastics.
No Democrat voted for PLASTIC STRAWS!!!!
No Independent voted for PLASTIC STRAWS!!!!!!!!
"Possession of a reusable spork."
Weird.
Cups still work fine without them.
Remember when it was only incandescent lights?? We were in a safer time then....
I think if enough people focused on that he'd reverse course.
(Gotta use that reverse psychology)
(I am disabled.) ♿
Because we have no drought. Canada is going to send us water.
I’m sure he would agree that he’s above average.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/aug/21/microplastics-brain-pollution-health
The SAVE Act Will Prevent One-Third of Women From Voting https://carlynbeccia.medium.com/the-save-act-will-prevent-one-third-of-women-from-voting-1e890efe6f7d
How many companies will be out of business?
How many People will be unemployed?
These are the questions journalists should ask EVERY TIME such executive actions are announced.
The White House answer better not be "I don't know", bc that means they don't care.
sure am glad big government came and fixed it. /s
When an animal gets rabies, you put it down.
Love from Canada. 🇨🇦
I blame autocorrect, the phone keyboard, and my tremors.
I'm pro-environmental standards, but paper straws have always been dumb. They can't survive a child for 5min.
Now, #PASTASTRAWS is where it's at. They are biodegradable, and they work great.
And yes, I like to use straws. I hate that people really want to come at those of us who like to use them.
Disposable Are much better for people's skin.
You can still use your own metal straws instead :)
Adults (and kids!) don’t need straws at all! And if you need it use one that you can use multiple times after washing.
He can stop promoting them, but there are plenty of organizations that promote paper or metal straws.
Hate is hate-what a despicable human.
https://bsky.app/profile/fantasyfan13.bsky.social/post/3lhm3euijd22u
Metal straws can be really bad.
My family member bites on them hurts their mouth. That's why paper is hazard too. Bits of paper can be swallowed
Plastic is best for some.
I've had drinks where I've had to pass on the straw and they were really difficult to drink without it.
He is nuts!
How the FUCK is a plastic straw going to give me reproductive rights? Or make housing & medical care affordable.
They have a useless knack for finding the LEAST important things to rant against.
But, it is on the list of the idiot-in-chief's pathetic & imaginary war with Joe Biden.
Biden supported reducing single use plastic, including plastic straws, as a focus on shifting to more sustainable materials.
Adding tariffs to everything and eliminating paper straws is a devastating 1-2 punch that will lower prices.
https://actionnetwork.org/events/resist-the-dictator/
..... what about the economy and EGG prices????? SMFH
It's not just the 'turtles', it's a life on the planet.
Just sayin'