Section 1. Purpose. Overregulation chokes the American economy and stifles personal freedom. A small but meaningful example is the Obama-Biden war on showers

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      there was literally a bit in a recent Netflix show where the POTUS demands that his shower be of maximum pressure and water temperature. a white house engineer works tirelessly to give him what he wants and then gets zero recognition for his efforts

      the timing is pretty weird because that show just came out like 2 weeks ago

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      He was mad about the low flow toilets in the previous term. Toilets are whatever you me but I don’t drive or anything so would really like go have a shower that makes ne feel better when I’m sore by blasting me with really hot water. I just really like when my shower almost hurts and it makes things a bit more okay when I stand in it for a half hour before beesing to face the say sometimes. Everyone else gets to drive a fucking, I was want to be hit with a boiling hot firehoss when I need it

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    This isn’t at all new to Trump. Water pressure has been an argument made by anti-environmentalists for decades. It’s because of the “Energy Policy Act of 1992” which mandated that new toilets must flush less that 1.6 gallons of water. It’s a popular issue among boomers. It’s very much a “kitchen table issue”.

    King of the Hill Season 4, Episode 22. This was an entire episode of King of the Hill where Hank organized a political campaign against low water pressure toilets.

    It’s anti-environment stuff. Very much in par with treatlerism.

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      Towel so you don’t scratch it up, wrench to take the head off, needle-nosed pliers to get the little fucker out of there. Ezpz. I am more powerful than the US government.

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        I tried this on my kitchen sink nozzle and there was a hole deliberately placed there to make the faucet leak when the restrictor is removed

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          J-B Weld. If it can get my motorcycle engine running again after punching a hole in it, it can keep water from dripping out of your faucet.

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          Take out the flow restrictor and hollow out everything except the part that holds the restrictor in place and the part that plugs the leak?

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        I just have my own shower head cause I’d rather not use the one that god knows how many previous people who rented there have used and never cleaned. Got a hose, a few settings and can almost hurt, it’s good.

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    To the extent any definition is necessary for this common piece of hardware, the Oxford English Dictionary defines “showerhead” in one short sentence.

    That sentence? “Thank you for visiting Oxford English Dictionary To continue reading, please sign in below or purchase a subscription. After purchasing, please sign in below to access the content.”

    Another aspect of attacking eco stuff, water conservation regulation? This article says he wanted to do this in 2020

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    The Biden/Obamna regime did not want you to be clean, folks! I’m bringing hot, powerful, and copious water streams back to the people! I’m doing this for all the fine women of America, you know, they should have standards, and they do have standards, and you know Biden… Obama, they were not meeting those standards, not water standards, but standards for men, clean men! Have you ever smelled a man after a long day in our beautiful clean coal plants? I mean, they are beautiful, the coal plants, but it’s sweaty, stinky work, it’s true. These boys come back home from a hard day at that clean coal plant, the one that gives all our great American men their livelihood, and they stink like a day’s work, I tell you. This guy knows what I’m talking about, great-looking guy… does he come home stinky? Yeah? Great-looking guy, you’re a good-looking couple, you’re a lucky man, and you’re about to be a lucky woman, this change will make him smell like a million bucks I tell you! We’re going to blast the stink off him, I mean, we all know what a shower head is, right? How can you spend, I mean thirteen THOUSAND, that’s a big number, in terms of words, that’s a lot of words when you could just say “Showerhead” and everyone would know what you mean. You should see my showerhead, when I got back to the Whitehouse they had this wimpy, and I mean, it was, let me tell you, I’ve never had the worst shower in my life, I don’t know what they were doing when Biden was here, I don’t think anyone took a shower, if they did, they would have said “this is the worst shower I’ve ever had”, they must have been giving him sponge baths, there was no pressure, none, but now I have the greatest showers, we installed a new showerhead and when I talked to John, the whitehouse plumber, I said, “We have to do better then this… we can do better then this right John”, great guy, John, does great work, he showed new options, and I took one look, I pointed at one, I said “John, do you know what this is?” I pointed right at it, and you know what he said? he said “a showerhead Mr. President”, imagine that, it was that easy, I told him “See you know what a shower head is john, it’s not that hard”, haha, “you didn’t need 1300 words to know what a showerhead was!” So, it’s just that simple folks, we’re doing this to make America clean again, I brought the water back to California, and now I’m bringing the water pressure back to your showers.
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