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return2ozma@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.world · 2 months ago

Trump declares national emergency over 'extraordinary' threat in America's power grid

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Trump declares national emergency over 'extraordinary' threat in America's power grid

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return2ozma@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.world · 2 months ago
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President Donald Trump declared a national emergency Wednesday over foreign-made equipment that the White House warned could leave the nation’s power system vulnerable to sabotage and catastrophic disruption. Trump signed an executive order aimed at protecting “the security, integrity, and reliabili...

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2026/08/declaring-a-national-emergency-to-secure-the-united-states-bulk-power-system/

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  • NaibofTabr@infosec.pub
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    Oh gee, if only there were some government agency intended to help protect industry from cybersecurity threats!

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    hmm. 35% of electricity comes from Canada. Threatens Canada with invasion and economic war. Wonders why the lights go out.

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      Do you have a source for that number. Because this source says it’s like 2%: https://www.poweradvisoryllc.com/reports/impact-of-tariffs-on-electricity-exports-from-canada-to-the-united-states

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        Looks like it only applies in some states in the US: https://www.greenmatters.com/news/what-states-get-power-from-canada

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        You say 2%, they say 35%, split the difference?

        • KingPorkChop@lemmy.ca
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          ChatGPT told me I had psychic powers and probably am related to aliens from Venus.

          …just sayin’.

          • datmarrow@lemmy.zip
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            What did you ask lol

            • KingPorkChop@lemmy.ca
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              How to make soup

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    I wonder what’s causing all this extra power drain.

    Im sure it can’t have anything to do with all the surveillance data centers being built to watch the masses every second of the day.

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      Just saw a FB thread where people were arguing the DCs are okay because they sourced a lot of generators to run on, and they use DEF fluid so they’re clean. I didn’t have the care to argue with them how badly that is actually polluting.

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    Its a good thing he spent all that money making sure no one could build wind power…

    • Mirshe@lemmy.world
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      And solar.

      • I_Jedi@lemmy.today
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        Ah, but don’t you see? If he didn’t stop the solar panels, they would’ve stolen the Earth’s entire magnetic moment. And then, they would’ve stolen the Earth’s electromagnetism, which means the loss of all light. This would’ve spread to the Sun itself, destroying the entire universe.

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        I don’t know anything about that but I believe you.

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          donnie the dotard is great at trying to roll back anything good for America. Conservatives ruin everything.

          Trump administration quietly canceled the nation’s largest solar project

          https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/14/climate/trump-solar-project-nevada-electricity

          Trump rollbacks hit $83 billion in solar and wind power projects

          https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/trump-rollbacks-hit-83-billion-in-solar-and-wind-power-projects/ar-AA27U767

          He and the idiot conservatives in the WH with their Big Idiotic Bill killed tax credit on residential solar:

          https://www.energysage.com/news/congress-passes-bill-ending-residential-solar-tax-credit/

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    This is so fucking stupid.

    This problem has been known for years. YEARS.

    EV Charger Hacking Poses a ‘Catastrophic’ Risk — Wired Magazine, July 5, 2023

    You know how they have effectively and efficiently handled problems like this in the past?
    Well they don’t gut the fucking government, hamstringing the agencies responsible for ensuring the safety of these devices and of our cybersecurity as a whole, refuse to create rules over the equipment and infrastructure that protects our infrastructure, and then publicize that it’s a problem before any meaningful change has been made so that every fucking script kiddie and malcontent with AI tokens can try their hand at taking down a region’s power grid, let alone the state actors who have the resources to do it anyway.
    They keep it quiet. Pass boring-ass rules and don’t say shit until they’re sure the threat has passed or has been sufficiently remediated.

    Terrible fucking governance. They’re literally publicizing a way to conduct a terror attack against the U.S. before they have a plan to handle it.


    Which might be the point.


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      If Trump is, in fact, a foreign asset, and compromised actor, would he be doing anything differently?

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        You read between the lines, my friend.

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    I am old enough to remember when Obama proposed a series of initiatives to update the power grid, most of which were blocked by republicans on account of naughty naughty socialism.

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    Shut the fuck up, Donnie.

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    Fucking stupid. The real danger to the grid is conservatives not letting us invest in infrastructure improvements

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      While I’d love to see the unredacted copy, the GOP would just deny the fact that he raped kids and continue to enable him. There would be likely zero consequences with the rigged judicial system and presidential immunity.

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    So fucking stupid bro. Do some fucking renewable energy then. Create jobs, energy independent, combat climate change

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      Its renewables fault. If Biden hadn’t invested in renewables we could have the money spent on clean coal.

      We could have bought all that bleach that wasn’t used to make people healthy during the pandemic (also Bifen’s fault - very bad!) and used it to wash all the coal to make it clean (very good for the environment).

      That’s why we are building datacentres so fast so you can have clean coal really quickly.

      I will stop now as nanny tells me its potty time.

      THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION ON THIS MATTER!

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    So now he’s gonna bomb some data centers?

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      Dont give me hope.

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    Epstein Files™ when?

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    Dookie Donnie does dumb shit — again.

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    Normalizing declaring national emergencies perhaps?

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      Setting up the scapegoat for the inevitable collapse of the power-grid due to the data center build out.

      You can’t be angry at the government if it was Canada’s fault. Now you have to support the invasion of Canada by candlelight or be considered an un-American communist sympathizer.

      Damn Canadians!

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    Texas knows. We blame Abbott and the rest of the fuck head Republicans.

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