Yeah. For some cheep booze and an overcooked hamberder, they can improve their game and allow Trump to flail along and claim to win.
I know he’d never do it - but I would love to get Tiger’s or a couple of the other pros that trump has golfed with to give an honest assessment.
anyone know what Obama’s handicap was? (other than honesty?)
Here was the most updated projection of the probable storm path at the time of Trump’s tweet on Sunday.
Here’s a good summary of Alabama-gate. Note that on Sunday, the NWS in Birmingham was forced to send out a tweet emphasizing “Alabama will NOT see any impacts from #Dorian. We repeat, no impacts from Hurricane #Dorian will be felt across Alabama. The system will remain too far east”…because I am sure they have nothing better to do than to correct stupid misinformation being spouted by our President.
Also thought this paragraph in the article was interesting:
This is a nice animation of the NHC predictions over time where you can see what a cherry-pick the chart Trump showed in today’s White House video is. Basically, he cherrypicked the forecast from 3 days before his original tweet where he could plausibly claim it was headed in the direction of Alabama…and then he drew an extension beyond the 5-day cone because he couldn’t find any NHC forecast where the prediction went any further than having the hurricane get into central Florida.
This blog image is timestamped 12 Zulu (8 AM local) on 28 August. Trump’s map clearly has some extra lines.
Best thing I’ve read all day.
I think a defining characteristic of Republicans is a complete lack of shame.
I went to his Twitter page about this and almost all of the responses are anti-Trump, so I clicked on a few more pages and it’s the same thing. How would this compare to other Twitter feeds, wouldn’t most followers of someone support them? How many negatives would there usually be? IOW is this another indication of how unpopular he is?
I’m guessing the Russian bots have yet to find his weather tweets.
I was being sarcastic. But I did learn in this thread that doing so is illegal. Well, except for this - “When the President does it, it’s not illegal” - Nixon.
Same lines, but someone cranked up the contrast so that the EExx and APxx lines would stand out as much as the rest. I presume that those are models that use looser parameters to give a sense for where the edges of reason lie.
The real question would be whether FEMA and (thereby) the President uses NOAA or the South Florida Water Management District as their primary weather prediction source. I think we can be reasonably certain that NOAA is their source.
Plausibly, the people at Mar-A-Lago do use SFWMD and someone at Mar-A-Lago sent Trump an advisory on the storm. So the notable thing would be that Trump paid more attention to what his Mar-A-Lago employee told him than what FEMA told him.
I wouldn’t say that it’s impossible that Trump genuinely saw something saying that Alabama would get hit. That he dwells on the mistake and that his people are manufacturing false shit is probably more notable.
What other false shit have they manufactured? Some of it might be more important than this - deathly important.
Twitter displays comments to a tweet in such a way that comments from posters you follow (or maybe posters who follow other people you follow) show up first. So a Trump supporter viewing the comments to one of his tweets may see different comments at the top than you would see, based on their viewing/following history. Basically twitter shows you first the comments it thinks you would most likely want to see, based on your twitter history.
This is from the Twitter help page:
It doesn’t even matter if that South Florida Water Management (SFWM) map has extra lines on it or is faked in any way, since I believe Sunday 9/1 is when the Chosen One tweeted that the storm was going to include Alabama and that it was new information that had just come out. By that time, Alabama definitely was not expected to get hit at all. Even if you accept the map from SFWM as legit and not altered, it was from Aug. 28 so definitely not new secret info that the president receives first and relays to the peasantry as he sees fit, as he would have you believe. The forecast had been updated, all right - to include NO possibility of Alabama being hit.
I honestly think that when his aides tried to show him the weather forecast so that he could possibly pretend to be concerned about Americans in the path of the storm, he glanced at it so quickly and with such disinterest (and is such a poor reader) that he saw the word “Bahamas” and read it as “Alabama.” I mean I really do.
Trump’s map does have some lines not present on the 12 Zulu map; that orange (heh) line going off the map into Mexico, for example.
I think the more relevant question is how much Republicans should be worried that Trump is going to drag the party down with him.
I have issues with that story, even leaving aside the distinction I noted. The story says “Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., was among the first lawmakers to say his district will be impacted by the funding cuts”.
Here’s Schumer’s complete statement:
Now a reader might conclude that Schumer’s interest in this issue is due to the fact that West Point is in New York. And a reporter could speculate on that connection. But I feel it is false to report that Schumer said it.
I don’t have a history. Maybe 3 tweets. Could it possibly be getting data from Google searches. I wouldn’t think so.
I read some article which talked about Trump’s upbringing; the prep had included interviewing his military-school classmates, who according to the article “were impressed by his size and athleticism”.
My brain read that as “he was a physical bully, using his large size to cower smaller boys and pushing or hitting those who refused to bow and scrape”. Many boys who’ve been big their whole life or who are the eldest child/cousin have a handicap their whole lives in that they were the automatic guilty party in any fight, they spent their whole childhoods being told to be careful because even if it was their smaller cousin who’d bumped into them, the size (mass) difference meant it was that smaller boy who’d end up on his ass… anybody here have enough imagination to picture Trump’s parents doing that? Because I try and my brain lets out a dry laugh.
I’m not sure what you’re referencing by “12 Zulu” so possibly I am mistaken. But assuming that you’re referring to this:
Then I presume that you’re talking about the orangeish line going through 24N on the left.
It’s pale, but it’s there. You might need to check the contrast and color temperature settings on your monitor.