How media over-represents 15 times climatosceptiks fake science

[Slobodan Blagojevic]

Trump is incredibly incompetent. Most of us would have been fired tens of times from our far less critical jobs if we displayed 50% of his inabilities.

You get what you pay for* 😉

* hint: his presidential salary is ultimately zero

[kers]

You get what you pay for* 😉

* hint: his presidential salary is ultimately zero

As we know does not care about making money

[Slobodan Blagojevic]

As we know does not care about making money

He donates all his presidential salary to US government agencies (e.g., his second-quarter went to the U.S. Surgeon General's office).

[Peter McLennan]

He donates all his presidential salary to US government agencies (e.g., his second-quarter went to the U.S. Surgeon General's office).

An excellent example of his ongoing and effective strategy to distract from the more odious truth.

[Bart_van_der_Wolf]

An excellent example of his ongoing and effective strategy to distract from the more odious truth.

Indeed, and this is but one example:
Swamp Scandal: Trump Sees Huge Gain From Govt Spending At Hotels
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USvNPGdo850

Cheers,
Bart

[faberryman]

The #sharpiegate kerfuffle continues:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2019/09/09/noaas-chief-scientist-will-investigate-why-agency-backed-trump-over-its-experts-dorian-email-shows/?wpisrc=nl_most&wpmm=1

[Robert Roaldi]

The #sharpiegate kerfuffle continues:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2019/09/09/noaas-chief-scientist-will-investigate-why-agency-backed-trump-over-its-experts-dorian-email-shows/?wpisrc=nl_most&wpmm=1

This entire episode is a mystery to me. Someone drew a line they shouldn't, all he had to do was shut up about it and no one would have noticed or cared much. A couple of tweets and it's forgotten. The man has threatened war on his twitter feed and his words are so without meaning that even the "apoplectic" loonie left doesn't respond to threats of war because no one takes a word he says seriously. So why is he doubling down on this Alabama nonsense? Is it a diversion from something else? Seems pointlessly obsessive.

[Slobodan Blagojevic]

Indeed, and this is but one example:
Swamp Scandal: Trump Sees Huge Gain From Govt Spending At Hotels
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USvNPGdo850

Typical leftie one-sided attack. MSNBC, what else would one expect. They are throwing around big numbers (however they arrived to them), like $80 mil revenue. It is revenue, people, not profit. $80 mil do not go into Trump's pockets. At the same time, they claim his properties are not doing well, e.g., that PROFIT in one of his resorts went down 69%. A lot of that has to do with the active boycotting by the left. So, make up your mind, lefties: you can't accuse him of profiting and, at the same time, claim his properties are not doing well.

If I remember correctly, there was a report recently that he and the family are losing a lot of money due to the presidency. Besides, isn't this (attached) the case as well?

[Slobodan Blagojevic]

... Seems pointlessly obsessive.

We agree, for once.

[Slobodan Blagojevic]

Folks, get ready for a communist totalitarian society, courtesy of global warming and Armageddon fear-mongering:

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/what-if-we-stopped-pretending?fbclid=IwAR36IMeR9rO1EdHScUPv9wvo3bHqLAYKnqVApwc2TshN06wCXprhniE_f6s

(Emphasis mine)

The first condition is that every one of the world’s major polluting countries institute draconian conservation measures, shut down much of its energy and transportation infrastructure, and completely retool its economy...

... Finally, overwhelming numbers of human beings, including millions of government-hating Americans, need to accept high taxes and severe curtailment of their familiar life styles without revolting. They must accept the reality of climate change and have faith in the extreme measures taken to combat it. They can’t dismiss news they dislike as fake. They have to set aside nationalism and class and racial resentments. They have to make sacrifices for distant threatened nations and distant future generations. They have to be permanently terrified by hotter summers and more frequent natural disasters, rather than just getting used to them. Every day, instead of thinking about breakfast, they have to think about death....

... any movement toward a more just and civil society can now be considered a meaningful climate action. Securing fair elections is a climate action. Combating extreme wealth inequality is a climate action. Shutting down the hate machines on social media is a climate action. Instituting humane immigration policy, advocating for racial and gender equality, promoting respect for laws and their enforcement, supporting a free and independent press, ridding the country of assault weapons—these are all meaningful climate actions.

Hallelujah!

[Bart_van_der_Wolf]

[...] So why is he doubling down on this Alabama nonsense? Is it a diversion from something else? Seems pointlessly obsessive.

It's a demonstration that the man creates his own fictional reality, and doesn't tolerate anybody to question him about it.

It is pointlessly obsessive, and (potentially) dangerous.

[Alan Klein]

Nobody's talking about how talks with the Taliban have broken down and we may wind up staying there for another 20 years. 

Somebody ought to circle Afghanistan with a magic marker.

[faberryman]

Nobody's talking about how talks with the Taliban have broken down and we may wind up staying there for another 20 years. 

That would be a topic for a new thread. Now that nobody has changed their mind, are we done with climate change?

[Alan Klein]

That would be a topic for a new thread. Now that nobody has changed their mind, are we done with climate change?

Let me look out of the window first.

[Robert Roaldi]

Folks, get ready for a communist totalitarian society, courtesy of global warming and Armageddon fear-mongering:

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/what-if-we-stopped-pretending?fbclid=IwAR36IMeR9rO1EdHScUPv9wvo3bHqLAYKnqVApwc2TshN06wCXprhniE_f6s

(Emphasis mine)

Hallelujah!

"communist totalitarian state'

Is this like an anti-Godwin law thing? 

[Robert Roaldi]

Nobody's talking about how talks with the Taliban have broken down and we may wind up staying there for another 20 years. 

Somebody ought to circle Afghanistan with a magic marker.

Talks have broken down?  What talks?

How many people could find Afghanistan on a map to circle it?

[Slobodan Blagojevic]

"communist totalitarian state'

Is this like an anti-Godwin law thing? 

[Peter McLennan]

Back to the climate discussion:

WASHINGTON — The Secretary of Commerce threatened to fire top employees at NOAA on Friday after the agency’s Birmingham office contradicted President Trump’s claim that Hurricane Dorian might hit Alabama, according to three people familiar with the discussion.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/09/climate/hurrican-dorian-trump-tweet.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage

[Slobodan Blagojevic]

Ok... if those directly involved are crazy, can we at least not proliferate that craziness here? To hell with Alabama! (Sorry, people of Alabama, you are good).

[Robert Roaldi]

Back to the climate discussion:

WASHINGTON — The Secretary of Commerce threatened to fire top employees at NOAA on Friday after the agency’s Birmingham office contradicted President Trump’s claim that Hurricane Dorian might hit Alabama, according to three people familiar with the discussion.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/09/climate/hurrican-dorian-trump-tweet.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage

That's hilarious. It's the kind of thing we used to expect from the Soviet Union or some banana republic. Why are the people at the top, POTUS or Secretary of Commerce or whoever, doubling down on this crap? People earning high salaries in several departments actually spent their time worrying about this. All probably because they're worried that Trump's feelings might be hurt so they try to force through some elementary school level face-saving. He's contradicted all the time, he can take it, he's way over 21, he used to be a CEO, wtf?. Don't any of these people have work to do?

Most advanced and richest nation on earth, 350 million people to choose from, and this crowd of buffoons is the best you can do?  Must be depressing as hell.