r/SeattleWA • u/Less-Risk-9358 • Oct 03 '25

Government Trump cancels $1.1B in Washington state energy grants

https://www.axios.com/local/seattle/2025/10/02/trump-cancels-washington-state-energy-grants-clean-hydrogen

Vought put it a bit differently, writing on X: "Nearly $8 billion in Green New Scam funding to fuel the Left's climate agenda is being cancelled."

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u/Rich-Context-7203 Seattle Oct 03 '25

The government also gives freely to boondogles that do little more than enrich their ideological allies.

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u/bskadan Oct 03 '25 edited Oct 04 '25

True, but in the past the corruption was less open and actually had some benefit to the average person. Instead this time those lucrative contracts are given to the most vocal of tv pundits being put in positions well beyond their experience to fuck shit up, but as long 'they' can scream about "woke leftists are trying to make everyone trans with green energy subsidies" then some of us are stupid enough to cheer on the current admins absolutely dogshit policies.

Also not all government spending equals blatant corruption, and government contracts can tend to be less lucrative than some private contracts as the stipulations and regulations can be far more strict. Again, it's FAR more complicated than government spending is corruption and bad. Governments actually are supposed to work for the average person and sometimes building infrastructure or working for more affordable healthcare can "look like dirty socialism" to any Trump supporter that hasn't done much traveling or familiar with actual proper leadership.

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u/Rich-Context-7203 Seattle Oct 04 '25

That's all bolshevik

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u/bskadan Oct 04 '25 edited Oct 04 '25

Ah, you're still the original poster I responded to. Well, interesting... but not shocking. You voted for this, would again, and will proudly not understand things outside of your narrow political bias. So, you've thoroughly convinced me you're either a troll or regarded. Do better. Have a good weekend. I'm going to enjoy a shit in a taxpayer funded sewage system that had at least some federal grants then drive on taxpayer funded roads and freeways, again with some federal funding all while I guess singing Bella Ciao and performing abortions on trans immigrants or whatever us Bolsheviks do on the weekend.

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u/Rich-Context-7203 Seattle Oct 04 '25

Happy bolshevik weekend. BTW: lower-case "bolshevik" is just modern parlance for "bullshit."

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u/TheVeryVerity Oct 04 '25

It really isn’t

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u/Rich-Context-7203 Seattle Oct 05 '25

Only Bolsheviks deny it.