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rinselberg
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JUN 11, 03:46 PM
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| quote | Originally posted by olejoedad:
Louie is so good at sarcasm that many on the Left aren't sharp enough to pick up on it...... |
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Of course! What was I thinking(?)
It's a high bar (toweringly high) that was set, for the performative art of sarcasm on the political stage, by former President Obama.
Like the time Obama went to Poland and had his audience howling with laughter about "Polish" death camps during the Nazi occupation of Poland during WW2.
Or the time that Obama pretended to fall victim to an open microphone, almost whispering to Russian president Dmitry Medvedev "I'll have more flexibility after I'm reelected in November." Nudge, Nudge, Wink, Wink. Without Saying the Quiet Part Out Loud. In other words, Dmitry, you can bloody well kiss my ass if you think Barack Obama is ever going to cut you any favors. Sarcasm at its finest.
Or the time that Obama said he had visited all "57" of the United States. "Yeah right . . . 57. Like Heinz 57 Varieties. You people are SO dumb."
Never without a reference
"The Top Seven Obama Gaffes"
Tim Dickinson for Rolling Stone; June 11, 2012.
https://www.rollingstone.co...-obama-gaffes-69110/[This message has been edited by rinselberg (edited 06-11-2021).]
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JUN 19, 02:33 PM
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A Modest Proposal: Let’s Change Earth’s Orbit
What’s the worst that could happen?
| quote | | During a congressional hearing last week, Republican Representative Louie Gohmert of Texas asked a U.S. Forest Service official if her organization or the Bureau of Land Management could change the orbit of the moon or Earth to reverse the effects of human-caused climate change. That seems like a perfectly reasonable idea, doesn’t it? Let’s do it. . . . |
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I think that's a little misleading. Congressman Gohmert asked if any thought had been given to these ideas; I wouldn't say that he outright asked if there was any confidence about a human capability to do this, nor would I say that he asked if there was any confidence that it would be a good idea to actually do it, if it were possible to do it.
Nevertheless, Maddie Bender "went on a bender" about it in the June issue of Scientific American. She "did the math."
https://www.scientificameri...hange-earths-orbit/#
It's not remotely feasible for humans to do anything that would change the Earth's orbit around the Sun or the Moon's orbit around the Earth, "period", whether it would be for the purpose of defeating or mitigating the effects of global warming or for any other purpose.
Spoiler Alert
Maddie Bender is a 2021 AAAS Mass Media Fellow at Scientific American. She recently received an M.P.H. in microbial disease epidemiology at the Yale School of Public Health.
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BHall71
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JUN 19, 03:00 PM
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rinselberg
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JUN 20, 03:35 PM
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