Why Trump’s Dishwasher Diatribe Matters
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Posted By: RockyTCB,
1/16/2020 6:24:40 AM
The left had another apoplectic fit when President Donald Trump started talking about dishwashers at his Milwaukee rally this week. How dare he focus on something so trivial when House Democrats are busy trying to remove him from office.
But Trump is on to something, and the fact that the liberal elites can’t understand what it is says more about them than it does about Trump.
“Anybody have a new dishwasher?” Trump asked the audience on Tuesday. “I’m sorry for that, it’s worthless. They give you so little water. … So what happens? You end up using it 10 times
Reply 1 - Posted by:
fordtran 1/16/2020 7:04:23 AM (No. 289803)
Don't get me started on toilets that try and flush with a cupful of water.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
zephyrgirl 1/16/2020 7:17:23 AM (No. 289811)
You have to pay a lot of money for toilets that flush properly these days. I'm now on my second house where I've had to upgrade all the toilets to get ones that actually flush.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
ByteGuru 1/16/2020 7:22:56 AM (No. 289816)
First Mate and I have been casually looking for a new dishwasher as our current one was installed when we built the house 22 years ago. We have not been impressed with what is available out there. I have even had one salesman at Lowes ask what model I had. When I told him he said (paraphrasing) "... repair it until it can't be repaired any more."
Interestingly I have had similar conversations regarding washing machines. Ours is a 16 yo Whirlpool.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
udanja99 1/16/2020 7:23:39 AM (No. 289817)
Buy a clue, lefties. Trump isn’t talking about impeachment because all of his supporters already know what a sham the whole charade has been and they don’t give a flying F that he’s been impeached.
I also don’t think that too many on the left care about impeachment either because they know they are going to lose in the senate and in the elections this year. In all of the various events I attended during December, and all of the errands I’ve done and meetings I’ve attended and in all of my other social interactions, not one person has mentioned impeachment. People don’t care.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
jalo1951 1/16/2020 7:44:42 AM (No. 289833)
I am the dishwasher in my house and always you just the right amount of water for the job that needs to be done. However, my new clothes washer sucks. Don't mind doing the dishes by hand but I do draw the line at taking my laundry down to the creek and beating them with a rock. Appliances just like light bulbs are not a bad talking point for the prez.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
MOBeef4u 1/16/2020 8:12:48 AM (No. 289859)
The Prez is using a variation of the “broken windows” theory of solving problems. For most people the impeachment hysteria (and all the other Leftist hysterical issues) has become so much white noise playing in the background of their actual lives where functioning appliances, higher wages, lower taxes, lower gas prices, etc. have much greater currency. Fix the “small” stuff and the bigger issues seem to get taken care of as well. We’ll see who ends up the winner. Hopefully it is America.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
southernboy 1/16/2020 8:24:31 AM (No. 289874)
Just installed a new bathroom faucet. The internal tubing in the faucet was 1/8 inch copper tubing. The water flow isn't enough to rinse the sink!
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
mobyclik 1/16/2020 8:34:29 AM (No. 289893)
You wind up with garbage when there's thousands of paper-pushers in DC coming up with nonsense like to save us all from ourselves. A liberal truism: ''If it ain't broke,,,FIX IT!''
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
planetgeo 1/16/2020 8:35:14 AM (No. 289894)
The eco-nazis won't be satisfied until we're all sitting around in grooming circles picking lice from one another's hair and chanting hymns to Gaia. Of course, the good news is that, unfortunately for the eco-nazis, we will have reached that stage of devolution where it will again have become culturally acceptable to club them to death.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
LadyHen 1/16/2020 8:35:27 AM (No. 289895)
I saud the exact same thing when I saw this article #1. God preserve us from low/no flow toilets!!
Most appliances now are built to last only so long, engineered obsolecence. Then you have fork out the dough for another in 5-10 years. Foreign made with NO pride.
The good old days of American made Kenmore appliances that lasted 30+ years are long gone. My parents had the most hideous avocado green Kenmore stand up freezer. It worked for 35 years before it gave up the ghost.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
ho72 1/16/2020 8:38:41 AM (No. 289900)
“Anybody have a new dishwasher?” Trump asked the audience on Tuesday. “I’m sorry for that, it’s worthless. They give you so little water. … So what happens? You end up using it 10 times … then you take them out and do them the old fashioned way, right?”
No. This is hyperbole and it isn't needed. The left will just rack up another "lie" for Trump.
The reality is that dishwashing machines fell victim to a double whammy. The gov. dictated lower water usage AND made soap manufacturers change their formulas which made them less effective. One or the other might have been tolerable, but the combo makes for a bad experience. We're lucky. Our dishwasher has a 1 hr mode that uses more water, as opposed to those green modes that use less water and run for up to 3 hours (I kid you not). We also have a near-lifetime supply of the good detergent since I stocked up with the old stuff while it was still on the shelves.
Trump's got the right idea, but he doesn't need to imitate a carnival barker to get his valid points across.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Rather Read 1/16/2020 8:41:04 AM (No. 289902)
My dishwasher does a load in about 90 minutes. I can't say it does a really good job though. It's just me, so I more often than not just wash the dishes myself. My daughter has a dishwasher that takes hours to wash and since she has a family of four, she uses it every day.
My old washer and dryer finally broke down and I got new ones. They take a LOT longer to wash and dry than my old ones, but it's just me and I don't have to use them that much. I don't like them as much as my old ones, but I got a top loader without all the bells and whistles. I was told to avoid front loaders with digital controls since the repair is expensive.
The president is on to something here. The elites have their servants do the washing for them. I doubt if they even think of a dishwasher.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Daisymay 1/16/2020 9:06:06 AM (No. 289942)
Just goes to show you how Brilliant Trump really is. He hit the nail on the Head for millions of Housewives who cuss out these new appliances every time they use one. We all remember the days when our Sears washer did a great job in a half hour or so. Now, the NEW Sears washer, at least fourty-five minutes to an Hour to do a Load. The Dishwasher even worse. Our original GE finally died at 15 years and we bought a new Bosh. It does a great job, in two and a half hours! Don't even get me started on those squiggly Light Bulbs! Trump caught the interest of every single person who has to use these things every day! Finally, a Billionaire who thinks like the average Citizen. Does anyone think Styer or Bloomberg would give a whip about those things the "Little People" hate?
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3 hrs. is right for the dishwasher we bought a few yrs. ago, and I've been pulling the water re-stricter out on the new shower heads for many yrs. (fyi they used a rubber grommet on the last one because it also seals it from leaking. Get some Teflon plumbers tape and little problem solved)
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
gop_guys 1/16/2020 9:21:25 AM (No. 289975)
11 probably doesn’t like President tweeting either. I loved the new material in Milwaukee and adore his tweets!
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
sydney727 1/16/2020 10:34:53 AM (No. 290080)
Article says he never ran a dishwasher in his life. Maybe true, but how many thousands of dishwashers has he bought for his condos, hotels and restaurants. The man knows dishwashers as he does every other element of construction and interior design.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
cor-vet 1/16/2020 10:38:48 AM (No. 290085)
When you remember that these same people made fun of George H.W. Bush being confused by a store check-out scanner, you stop paying attention to them.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
iraengneer 1/16/2020 10:43:35 AM (No. 290092)
And,again,
Someone PLEASE consult your copy of our Constitution. My copy, oddly, makes NO mention whatsoever for the FEDERAL government to have ANY authority to regulate household appliances, bathroom fixtures, lightbulbs, or a million other things.
Yet it was a scuzzy Republicrat President who foisted the ILLEGAL TO EXIST Federal EPA on us, enabling much of this garbage. And not one since has had the courage nor integrity nor fidelity to the Constitution to end it.
I spent a number of years in a somewhat responsible role with a supplier to some of these appliance makers. Most since decamped for Mexico by the way. I know the issues all too well. Trying to mollify nitwits who were trying to mollify goobermint nitwits with an SJW edumacation. END these idiotic Federal mandates and the agencies and departments that issue these ridiculous mandates. Fire them one and all. Start today.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
zoidberg 1/16/2020 11:31:30 AM (No. 290158)
With modern toilets, even an honest person is forced to become a four-flusher.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
DVC 1/16/2020 1:16:02 PM (No. 290252)
He actually understands that the damned Energy Dept has basically made most modern appliances nearly worthless with their despicable water and power restrictions.
Fortunately, we have an older, high quality top loader washing machine which does an outstanding job with clothes and with only two people, who rarely wallow in the mud any more, it will probably outlast us. Our drier is propane, and about 10 years old, so should also last a long time. Our dish washer is about 12 years old, and works very well, although I am amazed at how LONG it takes. The whole cycle takes 2 hours.
No way I am buying any new appliances, they do a much poorer job.
Damned Energy Dept needs to be forced to eliminate these damned regulations on water and energy use in appliances.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
DVC 1/16/2020 1:21:36 PM (No. 290257)
#3, I have heard the same from a parts guy where I get repair parts for my appliances. He says "Never let go of your good old appliances, the new stuff is really junk and doesn't work well."
I repaired my BIL's drier over Thanksgiving, it needed a new temp limit sensor. The appliance repair and parts guy down there in Fla (in his 70s) said the same thing again, "Keep your old, well built, non-computerized appliances as long as you can get parts for them. These new computerized things are unreliable and expensive to fix. If anything goes wrong, a new main circuit board is the only fix, and they cost a third of what a new machine does." From a guy who repairs them on a daily basis. He said he teaches appliance repair at the local community college, too.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
mc squared 1/16/2020 2:35:54 PM (No. 290323)
3 hours for a normal load and frequently needs to be re-run. No help from the no-phosphate detergents. Sometimes best to let the water run in the sink for a few dishes.
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