This is real news, but I don’t know if it will break through the Trump zone flood of shit.
Residents are being told to evacuate.
h/t rikyrah
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This is real news, but I don’t know if it will break through the Trump zone flood of shit.
Residents are being told to evacuate.
h/t rikyrah
by Betty Cracker| 228 Comments
This post is in: How about that weather?, Open Threads, Politics
The Beast is apparently holding a victory lap/press conference right now that is spiraling into new heights of craziness. No president has ever been treated so badly, not even those who were shot in the face. Trump has covered the following topics: Comey, Hillary Clinton, Strzok and Page, Pelosi, Jim Jordan’s ears, Scalise’s gunshot wound and his wife’s evidently remarkable concern about the possibility of his death, etc.
I’m not watching, not even clips, but people on Twitter are astonished that the networks aren’t cutting away. I’ll give you two reasons why not: 1) cha 2) ching.
Tom Perez has called on the Iowa Democratic Party to recanvass caucus results:
Enough is enough. In light of the problems that have emerged in the implementation of the delegate selection plan and in order to assure public confidence in the results, I am calling on the Iowa Democratic Party to immediately begin a recanvass.
— Tom Perez (@TomPerez) February 6, 2020
Meanwhile, Sanders declared victory on Twitter. Jesus, what a day. How about some peaceful birds?
Ibises browsing around the base of a cypress tree on this windy day. Storm is coming. pic.twitter.com/PD2sEcPOiB
— Betty Cracker ? (@bettycrackerfl) February 6, 2020
We’re supposed to get a significant wind, rain and lightning event, aka, a storm, later. Maybe we’ll get lucky and be cut off from civilization for several days. We’d be fine. Better, maybe!
Open thread!
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Finally it's raining in Australia ??
"Downpours have already helped to extinguish 32 bushfires..number of blazes fell from 120 to 88..It means the end may be in sight for exhausted firefighters who have battled deadly fires for more than 3 months."
— Akki (@akkitwts) January 16, 2020
As any Californian could tell us, the danger is nowhere near over yet. But it’s a temporary reprieve!
Relief is here for a number of firefighters working across NSW. Although this rain won’t extinguish all fires, it will certainly go a long way towards containment. This footage was captured down at the Good Good Fire burning near Cooma. #nswrfs #nswfires pic.twitter.com/fxV9u2hN6K
— NSW RFS (@NSWRFS) January 16, 2020
Much more detail from the Guardian.
this money goes directly to @NSWRFS, the volunteer first responders dealing with the fires that have already burned more than 215 million acres in australia.
they needs the worlds support and every dollar and retweet helps. ??????https://t.co/RgThYNhlyj
— m i t h (@ManlnTheHoody) January 14, 2020
(If you have other donation suggestions, post in the comments.)
Thursday Morning Open Thread: Some GOOD NewsPost + Comments (69)
by David Anderson| 85 Comments
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The most recent ECMWF model has a dramatic shift in Invest 95L track.
Gone is any hint of Gulf of Mexico, instead developing a powerful Hurricane off the Southeast Coast in 3-5 days.
This is a surprising turn of events. pic.twitter.com/xXAmuClLEJ
— Ryan Maue (@RyanMaue) September 12, 2019
Right now, there is a possible tropical system that is projected to develop. And if it does develop, it could roughly tag along Dorian’s track. So if you’re on the Southeast Coast or in the Bahamas, time to start keeping an eye on the weather again.
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This Florida resident parked his Smart car in his kitchen so Dorian wouldn't blow it awayhttps://t.co/q3bddJAgGo pic.twitter.com/2SUGtSPjhS
— David S. Joachim (@davidjoachim) September 5, 2019
Holding good thoughts for those still in Dorian’s shadow! Per the Washington Post:
Hurricane Dorian spawned damaging tornadoes and flooded low-lying communities in the Carolinas on Thursday, in what officials hope will be the closing chapter of a storm that devastated the Bahamas and has panicked East Coast residents for the past 10 days.
The center of the storm, which weakened to a Category 2 on Thursday, crept northward just offshore for most of the day, sticking largely to its forecast track, as it delivered heavy rain and hurricane-force wind gusts to Charleston and Myrtle Beach in South Carolina. Ocean water poured over sand dunes in some communities, but officials cautioned it could take until Friday to assess the damage.
As it whipped up the coast, Dorian’s final blow was still aimed at North Carolina, and forecasters warned it could make landfall Friday near the Outer Banks. The trajectory was expected to produce what the National Hurricane Center called life-threatening storm surge in the Outer Banks, where four to seven feet of water could wash across the barrier island from two directions…
Even as officials warily eyed the possible effects of Dorian in the United States, federal officials announced Thursday that they are marshaling additional resources for the Bahamas, where the death toll continues to climb. The U.S. Agency for International Development announced it will send “shelter materials” for 35,000 people there…
Regarding a certain metaphorical disaster, this actually is the most plausible explanation I’ve seen so far…
It seems so clear to me that he read a bulletin that said “All Bahamas” & thought it said “Alabama.” And now we have to live through this ridiculousness. Sending love to everyone who is being affected by this hurricane while this goober tries to spin & save orange face.
— Caissie St.Onge (@Caissie) September 5, 2019
***********
You and me against the world,
Sometimes it seems like you and me against the world,
When all the others turn their backs and walked away,
You can count on me to stay. pic.twitter.com/TLmUVhPVHg— Schooley (@Rschooley) September 5, 2019
He just chooses not to. https://t.co/9suU6T6b1n
— Schooley (@Rschooley) September 5, 2019
Friday Morning Open Thread: We Do What We MustPost + Comments (181)
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They should have called this hurricane "Donald" instead of "Dorian" because it's slow, it has no direction, and it destroys everything it touches.
— Alex Cole (@acnewsitics) September 3, 2019
If proof were needed that the conspiracy theories about HAARP are complete bullshite, the fact that Trump hasn’t busted out the weather-altering technology to force Dorian to threaten Alabama would be it. At least it’s great fodder for comic geniuses like David Roth:
It can be difficult to remember given that he routinely appears on television with toilet paper on the soles of both his shoes and at least one of his hands stuck in a big jug of peanut butter, but Donald Trump’s opening position in all things is that he has never been wrong. He has been wronged, and is in fact wronged constantly—by terrible nasty TV actresses and fake cable news anchors and the other antagonists he’s collected over a lifetime of nonstop blowsy public feuding. But that is just the price he pays for always being right and never being afraid to speak out on whatever he has just seen on television. He carries that weight lightly, give or take the fact that he whines about it constantly. There is an entire cable television network devoted to telling this story over and over again, and every day Trump parks his ass in front of it and watches embalmed-looking septuagenarian newsreader types talk about how correct he is and heatedly demand apologies on his behalf, for hours on end. It’s the treatment that he has always believed he deserves…
The issue here is not that Trump doesn’t believe in things like truth and untruth; he absolutely believes that some things are true and other things are false, but what makes them true or false to him is grounded entirely in how he feels about them. Once a belief is lodged in the sodden Nerf of his brain it becomes true to him, and remains that way forever. These things tend, if anything, to become more true over time, or at least become larger. There is probably some latent impulse from his days as a real estate huckster that powers this—in the same way that he once added floors to the oafish towers he developed, he now adds years or billions to the oafish tales he tells from the front of his trade war with China. It also cannot be ruled out that the guy just likes saying large numbers. When Trump authors one of his really avant-garde falsehoods, it’s this impulse that’s generally behind it. He just likes things to be big, if possible “much bigger many say than anything that we’ve ever seen” but always and everywhere as big as he can get away with making them.
And then, eventually, even bigger than that. This was a problem last week, when Trump took one of his favorite parts of the presidency—the constitutionally enumerated power to tell everyone about the weather, and how large it looks like it might be—too far. Hurricane Dorian, which is indeed big and terrible, was moving towards the southeastern United States at the time, and the forecast called for moderate-to-large amounts of destruction in Florida, Georgia, and the Carolinas. Trump evidently found this insufficient…
"Just because you slept with someone named Stormy, it does not make you a weatherman."
Joy Beher, on The View.
— Kona Lowell (@KonaLowell) September 5, 2019
A 'mumpsimus' is a stubborn person who insists on making an error in spite of being shown that it is wrong. https://t.co/ZxeSqVQr02
— Merriam-Webster (@MerriamWebster) September 5, 2019
Even Fox News is pointing out the stupidity of #SharpieGate. https://t.co/UJLrjXXoTu
— The Hoarse Whisperer (@HoarseWisperer) September 5, 2019
The chyron writer at @CNN gets it.#willnotnormalize #SharpiePresident #HurricaneDorain #rescueefforts pic.twitter.com/ohqPAzhcbi
— Janna Bastone (@janna_bastone) September 5, 2019
OMG! The White House released a new photo of President Trump golfing. #sharpiegate #sharpie pic.twitter.com/BZz1lUUUqL
— Mark Novata (@mark_novata) September 4, 2019
Open Thread: The Toddler-in-Chief Will *Never* Stop Talking About AlabamaPost + Comments (58)
by Betty Cracker| 101 Comments
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In the downstairs thread, we were discussing an absurd thing that happened earlier today: Trump hosted a “hurricane update” in the Oval Office, seemingly for the sole purpose of whipping out a days-old National Hurricane Center map that one of the low-quality hires altered by crudely extending the “cone of concern” with a Sharpie to include part of Alabama.
Why would anyone do something so idiotic, especially since the actual hurricane has since killed probably lots of people and threatens many more thousands right now? To make it look like Trump wasn’t wrong on Twitter last week when he said Alabama was in the path of Dorian. (Narrator: It wasn’t!)
So, the press got a hold of it this afternoon, and Trump doubled down:
REPORTER: That map you showed us today, it looked like it almost had like a Sharpie on it.
TRUMP: I don’t know, I don’t know, I don’t know. pic.twitter.com/d2oZemOshh
— JM Rieger (@RiegerReport) September 4, 2019
More lies and a promise that “better maps” will be “presented later.” Someone should tell him the National Hurricane Center archives forecast maps, and they are available to anyone with an internet connection. Jesus Christ, y’all. I knew a Trump presidency would be non-stop stupid and mind-bogglingly incompetent, but…damn.
Open thread?