A post on X on Wednesday played a hilarious excerpt from the comedy series of neurotic Jerry Seinfeld and his New York City friends. Seinfeld’s buddy Cosmo Kramer couldn’t stand the low-pressure showerheads mandated by the powers that be. X user @amuse – who boasts over 600,000 followers – remarked that “[i]t only took 29 years, but Jerry Seinfeld’s complaint about government-mandated, low-flow showerheads was finally taken seriously. Trump signed an EO to make showerheads great again.”
“No longer will shower heads be weak and worthless,” said a draft of Trump’s executive order, adding that it intended to “make America’s showers great again”. The White House fact sheet for the executive order was entitled: “President Donald J. Trump Makes America’s Showers Great Again.” When signing the order, the President joked, “In my case I like to take a nice shower, to take care of my beautiful hair.” All this might sound like a laughing matter, but that would be to misread the situation.
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Come back Lord Salisbury in a nation’s hour of greatest need…
“…No lesson seems to be so deeply inculcated by the experience of life as that you should never trust experts.
If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome: if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent: if you believe the soldiers, nothing is safe.
They all require to have their strong wine diluted by a very large admixture of common sense.”
“No longer will shower heads be weak and worthless,” said a draft of Trump’s executive order, adding that it intended to “make America’s showers great again”.
We seem to live in a world where every day of the year is April 1st.
You so beat me to it!
I did read Plato’s “The Republic” once. The cave analogy was quite clever, but I was always struck by how Plato decides that the best form of government was to put people in charge who seemed rather like him. A German friend of mine, very intelligent bloke, said he agreed – the best form of government was benevolent dictatorship. I suspect he thought that the decisions made by such a person would be decisions he would largely agree with – he didn’t seem to have thought through to the point where someone is in charge with very different ideas.
Fine, but it’s all tinkering at the edges until legislation declaring CO2 a harmful pollutant is revoked.
I’ve an idea for that dastardly CO2, put it in aerosol cans as a propellent so we can all make spraying polish and fly spray great again.
many years ago my landlord put in that water saver shower head . was as bad as seinfelds.
so i promptly went to the hardware store got a normal one changed it myself and back to a real shower! thank you president trump of the common sense ! and freedom.
CAFE compliance forced manufacturers to make cars lighter but also weaker so should you come up against a heavier vehicle in a crash you are far more likely to get killed.
Let us not forget today’s brilliant ‘low water use’ toilets, that have to be flushed two or three times to clear the contents in the bowl.
Emblematic of the genius diktats of our virtue signalling Politicians and Civil Serpents