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We Got This Covered
David James

‘The dumbest government tweet ever’: Dept of Energy has somehow never heard of batteries

It’s genuinely impressive how, each and every day, the Trump administration breaks through to an exciting new depth of stupidity. Usually, it’s the big man himself blathering away about whatever’s on his disintegrating mind, but bringing up the rear is an inexhaustible phalanx of MAGA morons ready and willing to say stuff you’d ordinarily assume was parody.

For today’s example, let’s zip over to the Department of Energy’s X feed, where the mouth-breather running it came out with a truly inane comment about renewable energy. Yup, this social media guru spotted something simple the entire scientific community missed:

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