The deplorables are starting to wonder if govt has been lying to them about Hurricane Matthew intensity to make exaggerated point on climate
— MATT DRUDGE (@DRUDGE) October 6, 2016
@DRUDGE please get on the next flight to Palm Beach and collect some data, for science.
— 1st Amendment Person (@psychic_twin) October 6, 2016
I sincerely doubt Matt Drudge is dumb enough to try this (or to believe it), but no doubt there’s the odd Trumplodyte idiot already planning for their cellphone SUCK ON THIS MATTHEW WOO HOO!!! videos to go viral. Which would be fine — some people can only learn experientially, as when they get literally thumped around by natural forces — except that rescuing these sorry putzes will put first responders in harm’s way. TPM, “Conservative Hurricane Truthers Downplay Danger Of Hurricane Matthew”:
Hours ahead of Hurricane Matthews’ landfall on Florida’s Atlantic coast, some climate change skeptics downplayed the danger of what meteorologists say could be the worst such storm since Hurricane Katrina…
“This storm will kill you. Time is running out,” Gov. Rick Scott (R) said in a press conference Thursday. “There are no excuses. You need to leave. Evacuate, evacuate, evacuate. Are you willing to take a change to risk your life? Are you willing to take a gamble? That’s what you’re doing.”
Yet in the face of those pleas conservative aggregator Matt Drudge, who has a house in Florida, tweeted that “The deplorables are starting to wonder if govt has been lying to them about Hurricane Matthew intensity to make exaggerated point on climate,” and “Hurricane Center has monopoly on data. No way of verifying claims. Nassau ground observations DID NOT match statements! 165mph gusts? WHERE?”…
On Wednesday, Rush Limbaugh expressed a similar sentiment on his radio show, saying that government scientists might be “playing games” with storm data in order to “sell” the role climate change has played in making hurricanes stronger…
Listening to the scary forecast. What are the odds that Trump uses the storm hitting Mar-a-Lago as an excuse to flake on the debate?
— Bob Schooley (@Rschooley) October 6, 2016
Nah, but you can bet he’ll shove his way to the front of the line to collect any available storm-damage mitigation funds… whether or not he’s actually eligible.
meanwhile, on the republican internet pic.twitter.com/cVbLuWUzO2
— laura olin (@lauraolin) October 6, 2016
Welcome to 2016 when you have to check the news before tweeting jokes to make sure they haven't happened in real life while you were busy.
— OhNoSheTwitnt (@OhNoSheTwitnt) October 5, 2016
danielx
If it wasn’t for Betty Cracker and various others I know down there, I’d be applauding the possibility of Drudge, Limbaugh, the orange fuckweasel and various other assholes getting their properties washed out to sea. As it is, one can only hope the damage is limited.
Keith P.
Doesn’t Drudge live in Miami?
rikyrah
BE SAFE, folks.
Drudge…you can go into the hurricane…no problems will happen to you.
Poopyman
Windytv.com for near real time wind maps.
Rush Limbaugh needs a 15 foot storm surge rammed down his throat.
Darrin Ziliak (formerly glocksman)
As if Obama would bother with ‘engineering a hurricane’ for Trump.
Kamikaze drones and surface to air missiles are cheaper, and Barry has a budget to maintain.
JPL
Drudge is playing a dangerous game of Russian roulette with his Floridian supporters. What a sick bastard he is.
FlipYrWhig
Psst, “deplorables,” I heard the government is also suppressing the truth about how self-castration gives men superpowers.
SFAW
There seems to be some question as to whether the poll is a joke. Of course, with wingnuts, who the hell can tell any more?
lollipopguild
All Obama has to do is fire up the Obama Heart Attack machine(TM). Just ask Breibart.
JPL
Drudge is playing a dangerous game of Russian ro.ul.ette with his Floridian supporters. What a sick bastard he is.
sigaba
@SFAW: Poe’s Law applies.
@Keith P.: I thought he was like Gannon and a lot of those dudes, he lives in LA or New York but he maintains something called a primary residence in Florida for tax reasons and the homestead laws.
JPL
@Poopyman: Someone that I know who works for the weather company, said there is a lot of concern about this one, since 1,000 miles of coast line could be affected.
Grumpy Code Monkey
@SFAW: It’s pretty obviously satire, just not that well-done.
Not that there aren’t people out there who would believe it.
Mike J
They were also tweeting pictures of the beautiful sunny day in Charleston as proof the whole thing was fake.
Enhanced Voting Techinques
I see Obama finally took the “Please don’t drink bleach Republicans, it’s bad for you” challange and the predictions are correct – they will drink bleach just to spite Obama.
Thoughtful David
@sigaba:
@SFAW:
These guys made Poe’s Law obsolete months ago. I gave up even trying to figure out if it was real or not, just assumed it was always real until I heard otherwise. I haven’t been disappointed.
Ryan
Listening to the scary forecast. What are the odds that Trump uses the storm hitting Mar-a-Lago as an excuse to flake on the debate?
This. Pulizer prize right there.
sigaba
So, the weather’s under the control of the government and being used to punish conservatives, and Donald Trump is a “vessel” God is using to put Mike Pence in the White House.
Are we at Lisbon Earthquake Auto-da-fé level insanity yet?
Tilda Swinton's Bald Cap
@srv: Very weak, limp almost.
raven
Boortz lives down there now too.
Roger Moore
I would love to see that happen. The ads write themselves: do you want a president who looks after his own first and the country second?
BillinGlendaleCA
@srv: I suggest you get yourself the east coast of Florida immediately.
NotMax
Dastardly, yes. Dumb, no. He knows exactly what he’s doing.
Felonius Monk
@srv: Oh Master of Useless and Incorrect Information thou hast once again passed useless flatulence into our meeting room.
redshirt
We are rapidly reaching a place where a large percentage of our population will deny any fact that their media enablers tell them to deny.
No truth, no facts, no reality but what they say it is.
The ultimate post modern party, masquerading as “Conservatives”.
Geeno
With any luck, there will be fewer Republican voters in Florida soon.
Felonius Monk
@raven:
What Boortz does cannot be called living.
Gertrude the Duck
@Ryan:
What are the odds that Trump uses this as an excuse to claim a tax deduction?
BillinGlendaleCA
@redshirt: You know, “It’s what your gut tells you”. Did you know there are more nerve endings in your gut than your brain? A doctor told me that, he felt it in his gut. Listen to what Dr. Stephen Colbert, DFA tells you.
max
Queen Anne BIGFOOTED Cole! Huzzah!
max
[‘About time.’]
redshirt
@BillinGlendaleCA: It’s not even their gut. They are being told what to believe. They’re being fed intentional lies and they fall in line. We have a functional and effective propaganda machine in this country that controls a significant percentage of the population. It’s scary.
NoraLenderbee
Obama so powerful, he makes the storms, but he can’t get one single measly veto past Congress.
Dork
@srv: I have no prob with transgendered hurricanes, but I bet NC does.
Mai.naem.mobile
I want Hilz to slip in that Trumo didnt pay taxes but his businesses are getting the benefit of emergency services paid for by tax payers. Will tax paying Florida voters think hes a genius?
BillinGlendaleCA
@redshirt: Yes, but it feels right in their gut.
Truegster
Trump’s double super top secret plan to defeat ISIS is hurricanes…I think I’ve said too much. Seriously though, IF Sniffles the Orange Clown won, all of “The Paranoid Style in American Politics” followers would be let down and perplexed as to why he won’t HARP super weapon all of our enemies or release the UFO files or whatever. Andrew Jackson was also prone to conspiracies and myths, he thought that some ancient white super civilization made the giant columns in Monument Valley. White supremacists and conspiracies really do go hand in hand.
schrodinger's cat
@Truegster: They prefer to live in a fantasy world rather than reality it seems.
Mai.naem.mobile
I think Marco Rubio needs to ne asked about makers and takers and Trumps taxes when he asks for federal aid.
Ruviana
@max: Yay! Max!
[Max is here!]
JPL
@raven: Sad
TriassicSands
It would be a real shame if Mar-a-Lago were obliterated by Matthew. After all, it is the Western Hemisphere’s foremost example of restraint in design and decor. Typical of all Trump properties, Mara-a-Lago is elegant, tasteful, and a monument to minimalism.
Pogonip
@srv: Shouldn’t Matthew be classified as a himicane?
NotMax
@Truegster
When so much of what we call the West was terra incognito to non-Native Americans, a serious recommendation incorporated into the Lewis & Clark expedition was to find a tribe of blue-eyed, Welsh-speaking Indians.
Really.
Chyron HR
@srv:
How many people are you planning to
killSecond Amendmentize when Trumploseshas the election stolen from him? (“As many as I can before the police get me” is a valid response.)Arogers
@srv: Can I have some of what you are taking?
I feel the need to completely detach myself from reality!
hovercraft
Re-posted from dying thread downstairs.
Speaking of the dangerously dumb:
Lizzy L
@Geeno: Is this supposed to be funny? F*ck off.
Jean
I had read that Gary Johnson was siphoning votes from Clinton, but here in my red district in VA, my repub neighbors who have signs, have Gary Johnson signs. And some of our Republican friends are doing the same. Anecdotal, but it is interesting. These people are diehard Republicans.
Mnemosyne
You guys. We can’t vote for Hillary because ZeroHedge says she used a child actress to ask a question at the town hall. The kid has an entire credit in IMDb as “captured child” in a short film, so she was obviously a ringer.
Also, too, her father is a Democratic state senator, so this is collusion and SCANDAL!
(No, I’m not getting out of the boat to get you a link. Just your reminder that ZeroHedge is run by conspiracy theory nutjobs.)
Roger Moore
@srv:
Important caveat.
Central Planning
@srv: PEC doesn’t reflect that. Clinton has been gaining ground all week.
BillinGlendaleCA
@hovercraft: I often wondered about the flag pin that Republicans wear, it’s a flag with a elephant on the red and white bars.
JMG
Well, there are two ways to look at it. Either the LA Times and UPI (which doesn’t even exist as a news organization any more) are right and Trump will win, or every other poll taken so far are right and Clinton is ahead by a significant (in the stat sense) margin. Calling all trolls. Let’s see some money on the table.
Redshift
@srv: Hope you can live on cherries, because you’re picking them like mad. UPI/CVoter has had a strong Republican lean the whole campaign.
GregB
My God! Obama has gotten to Rick Scott!
danielx
@sigaba:
Who knew? And here all along I’ve been told all along that hurricanes, earthquakes and all were sent by FSM as punishment for gay marriage and suchlike, at least according to Pat Robertson and his ilk. Anybody would think they were misinforming people on purpose.
How deep does this conspiracy go?
Central Planning
@Roger Moore: Shhh! You’re ruining its narrative!
BillinGlendaleCA
@Roger Moore: We are talking about srv’s world here, that’s the gold standard in polling.
Felonius Monk
@srv:
Well if Matthew transgendered then I guess North Carolina is safe because they don’t permit transgenders to use their facilities.
Dork
@srv: that shit is funny. They have Trump up 4.5% in NC and HRC only up 1.6% in CO. Comedy gold.
Redshift
@BillinGlendaleCA:
Putting the elephant in front of the flag makes it an unintentionally perfect symbol for “party before country!”
NotMax
@BillinGlendaleCA
It varies. Mitt often sported one with the normally rectangular flag cut into an outline of Massachusetts. Which looked bizarre.
BillinGlendaleCA
@NotMax: True about the Mittster.
Roger Moore
@Mnemosyne:
Given that the main poster there uses “Tyler Durden” as a pseudonym, that should have been obvious.
Enhanced Voting Techinques
@srv: If that goverment was so big I could see it from here. Not impressed.
NotMax
Hurricane could blow out to sea all those tens and tens of thousands of pre-staged ballots for Clinton stored in warehouses in order to rig the election in FL, don’tcha know.
:)
hovercraft
@lollipopguild:
LOL
BillinGlendaleCA
@lollipopguild:
You can’t do that, cause Breitbart is still dead.
Matt McIrvin
PEC threw those UPI/CVOTER polls into its big hopper of polls already, I think (they were listed on the front page). They didn’t do much to swing the topline number, since they’re fairly out of line with everything else.
The thing I noticed was that the survey period was really long, going back to about a week before the first debate. So it was actually data that was partly from the pneumonia/”Basket of Deplorables” period.
But UPI/CVOTER also has a recent tracking poll which is one of the only two currently showing Trump ahead, along with Rasmussen. They were the only polls among many in which Trump actually gained after the first debate.
hovercraft
@Ryan:
Did anyone catch any of his *emergency townhall tonight?
* The emergency is that apparently the internal polls from both campaigns are showing him in significantly worse shape than the public polls, according to Costa and Howard Fienman.
Geeno
@Lizzy L: It was the only positive I could see in Drudge’s ravings.
I honestly can’t be bothered to care about those who can no longer think for themselves. Here Rick Scott (an arch conservative) is telling them to bail, but they’re giving credence this BS?
Anoniminous
@JPL:
Insurance companies are concerned about projected 15 to 39 foot tall waves battering the Atlantic coast for a couple of hundred miles? How silly of them.
Howard Beale IV
@srv: ROFL! UPI? Seriously? The Moonie Operation? Try again, loser…..
Gvg
@Mike J: actually beautiful sunny days precede most hurricanes because the storm sucks in all the available moisture which we call clouds so there is usually this big ring of clear weather all around the storm. It’s really odd while you are running around the yard getting stuff put up and knowing time is running out….the weather is perfect. Also depends how many miles across the storm is. Some are big some small, that isn’t correlated to how strong they are.
This time it’s been cloudy, drizzly since late yesterday and it’s not supposed to be here till tomorrow. Most of my others though have had great weather first. Hurricanes are weird.
Anne Laurie
@NotMax:
Hey, at least he didn’t try to cut the flag into the outline of his home state Michigan.
(I have actually seen ‘patriotic’ tshirts with the Upper Pennisula sporting the white-stars-on-blue portion and the
mainlower pennisula done in stripes. That doesn’t work well, either.)Anne Laurie
@hovercraft: Trump’s Durham event was switched to “by invitation only” — at the last minute. Since NH is in the MA media market, I’m waiting to see what the local news stations say on the 11pm broadcasts.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
NotMax
@Anne Laurie
Gives new meaning to Bull Durham.
NorthLeft12
Jeez Louise! How dumb are these guys? Everything is a freaking conspiracy with these know nothings. They are dragging your country down. Period. Full stop.
I should know better than to say/believe something like that, but really, if they have their say, and real policies are shaped to ensure their fee fees aren’t hurt or their input is included, you will accomplish almost nothing in dealing with the big issues that face your country. These yahoos need to be told this [as often as it takes for them to understand] and then left aside while the adults do the work.
Sec., I mean President Clinton needs a big win with a Dem Senate to get something done.
Keep working guys, you are almost there.
hovercraft
@Anne Laurie:
Can’t wait for your update.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
SFAW
@BillinGlendaleCA:
“In your guts, you know he’s nuts”
Darrin Ziliak (formerly glocksman)
@Roger Moore:
Depends on why.
Seriously injured or killed family would be a very good reason to skip *a* debate. The Commission would most likely be happy to reschedule.
Skipping because of damage to his vacation home/private club Mar-a-Lago? Bad, bad optics and the ads do indeed write themselves.
Miss Bianca
“The RIGHT people NEVER get hurt” – Reid Fleming, World’s Toughest Milkman
Dmbeaster
@srv: LOL. From the “poll” you reference.
The author claims that Trump is up in all the swing states. This is what passes for “fact” and “reason” in srv’s right wing world.
It just proves that wingers also believe the conjured hurricane story.
JR in WV
@Redshift:
Not only are they putting their party’s elephant before the American Flag, Elephants are not American animals. Donkeys, mules and horses are as American as it gets. Elephants are AFRICAN and South ASIAN, where the darker complected people live.
How can all these Second Amendment Coustitutionalist Americans be so deluded by a Party that kowtows to Russian Tsar Vladimir Vladimerovitch Putin, and worships a foreign animal as it’s core symbol>???\\
Amazeballs.
And where is Rush Limbaugher spending the night tonight? In West Palm Beach, where his ostentatious mansion is, or points North, West and away from that spinning Hurricane??? Where is Drudge tonight? At home in Florida, or away partying in NYC??
What Have the Romans Ever Done for Us?
I guess the footage of total devastation in Haiti is just from an elaborate Hollywood sound stage…
Maybe it won’t be a direct hit this time or as bad as they’re saying, in FL – the storm track forecasts are never perfect. It obviously has been a very destructive storm to areas directly in its path though…unless, of course, you don’t believe the footage from the places that have been through the bullseye.