A simple reminder of the incompetence, idiocy, and insanity that was the Trump presidency. Here’s the original story, in case you forgot:
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/09/05/hurricane-dorian-sharpie-trump-1482839
The funny thing is that NOAA and NWS are part of the Department of Commerce, the department that directly works with businesses to ensure that goods and services can plan for the weather. They track ocean currents, wind patterns, and yes temperature changes.
The accuracy of their models have become so good that we have pretty darn good forecasting now.
All so that Walmart can buy shovels in time for the next snow storm.
Yet they want to do a way with the agency because climate change is now a woke issue.
Talk about biting off your nose to spit at your opponent.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cutting_off_one's_nose_to_spite_one's_face?wprov=sfla1
I’ve always heard it as “Cut off your own nose to spit in someone’s face”.
Basically it means you are willing to hurt yourself just to be able to make your enemy miserable.
a lot of P25 seems either to be 1) fuck minorities or 2) petty vengeance
As well as Christian sharia law and corporate greed. It’s horrifying and we’ll be too mired in a fascist hellhole to get to enjoy the fact that they’ll have ended the US as a world power, which will fuck them over, too.
I heard that the house of representatives has a proposed law where only citizens born in the USA can vote.
Because fuck minorities.
Real Human Ted Cruz, who was hatched born in Canada might not be too thrilled about that 😄
One thing I’ve heard but haven’t checked yet is that it’s surprisingly pro gmo
Why wouldn’t it be? A lot of under-informed liberals automatically hate them, and their potential for owner donor profits when under-regulated is enormous.
Things like the fact that, if used right, they’re the best weapon we have against the coming climate change caused starvation doesn’t factor into GOP calculations. Because they don’t plan to even TRY feeding anyone not paying them a premium for it.
People that hate GMO usually don’t get to explain why, or don’t understand why liberals might be against them. But the truth is that people that know don’t hate the genetic altering parts so much as why those parts are altered.
It’s the pesticide.
That’s almost always why there’s a GMO.
GMOs suck when farmers get sued by big corporations, because they were sowing seeds that grew on their plot. All because corporations can patent DNA sequences.
Weather app companies want the information privatized in order to sell the data and subscriptions.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/who-benefits-from-the-privatization-of-weather-data
Eliminating analysis of climate change is only a side benefit. There’s money to be made.
To be completely fair…they likely have zero idea what NOAA is and they certainly hate and fear the unknown.
Shout-out to when Rick Perry wanted to abolish the department of energy, not knowing it’s responsible for maintaining our nations nuclear weapons, international treaty monitoring for nukes, and nuclear waste management and cleanup.
Texas man think government energy bad. Must abolish.
That’s untrue, because he won’t need a Sharpie anymore. They will just be reporting whatever Trump wants them to report. There is no hurricane. Here’s some paper towel. This will all blow over by Easter.
