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Trump Administration Announces That We Don’t Know Where the Sun Goes at Night

  

Category:  Satire

Via:  hallux  •  9 months ago  •  35 comments

By:   Alexandra Petri - The Atlantic

Trump Administration Announces That We Don’t Know Where the Sun Goes at Night
After deciding carbon dioxide does no harm, it was the logical next move.

S E E D E D   C O N T E N T


“President Trump on Thursday announced he was erasing the scientific finding that climate change endangers human health and the environment, ending the federal government’s legal authority to control the pollution that is dangerously heating the planet.”  —   The New York Times

A new ruling from the Trump administration says that when the sun disappears at night, we don’t know where it goes. All remaining top scientists have been taken from their positions and tasked with getting to the bottom of this.

The National Institutes of Health has orders to devote every whiteboard in every conference room to this pressing question. In the Oval Office, under the gold leaf, the president and his advisers are making a big list of possibilities:

The sun might be on the back of a big beetle—a dung beetle, maybe. (The EPA will work to determine what kind of beetle.) Where is the beetle going with it? Will the beetle bring it back?

Or maybe the witches take it. (They are pretty sure in the White House that witches are real.)

Maybe the immigrants steal the sun in the evenings.

Maybe the sun is the yellow scribble in the top corner of the page with sunglasses drawn on it in marker, and it disappears when someone puts it in a drawer. (But who? Emmanuel Macron?)

Maybe the sun is in Greenland. (If so, it is even more important to get control of Greenland.)

Maybe Bad Bunny has taken the sun hostage and is keeping it in his halftime grass. (He must be held to account.)

Maybe the groundhog knows. (Can the groundhog be made to talk?)

Maybe Jerome Powell has put the sun in his office.

Maybe the children have the sun, and we had better warehouse them all in Texas until one of them gives it up.

Maybe a wolf swallows it.

Maybe Mark Kelly and several other dissident members of Congress are hiding the sun in a big bag. (He got the bag when he was in space. Fortunately, soon only billionaires will be allowed to visit space and get the bags for the sun, and they will be required to give the bags to the president directly.)

Maybe Hillary Clinton ate it. (We put nothing past her.)

It’s very frightening when the sun goes away, now that we have decided we don’t know where it goes at night.

You can just decide that you don’t know things, it turns out, even if you do know them. You can simply decide to forget progress. Disease is caused by miasma, insufficient beef tallow, corn syrup, the evil eye. You can simply decide to burn coal and witches and books again.

Be especially sure to burn the books. We must do whatever we can to make light until the sun comes back.

I hope it comes back soon.


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Hallux
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1  seeder  Hallux    9 months ago

After fathering 2-1/2 dull sons Donald wanted a brighter Sun ... it's being goldleafed. 

No way he was going to let Saparmurat Niyazovm upstage him.

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Eat The Press Do Not Read It
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1.1  Eat The Press Do Not Read It  replied to  Hallux @1    9 months ago

"Dirty Diaper Donnie" is getting NUTTIER, and nuttier with every passing hour. Perhaps, a FRONTAL LOBOTOMY might help.

Of course, nuttering him would make a GREAT TV SHOW.

It's just a suggestion. Don't get your knickers in a bunch. 

 
 
 
JohnRussell
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2  JohnRussell    9 months ago

BUT.... he was elected, therefore no one should take issue with him lest they expose their "TDS". 

 
 
 
Eat The Press Do Not Read It
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2.1  Eat The Press Do Not Read It  replied to  JohnRussell @2    9 months ago

TRUMP is GOD, don't ya know!

 
 
 
Trout Giggles
Professor Principal
3  Trout Giggles    9 months ago

NASA takes it down every night for a good washing. Then they tuck into bed and read "Good night Moon" to it

 
 
 
Eat The Press Do Not Read It
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3.1  Eat The Press Do Not Read It  replied to  Trout Giggles @3    9 months ago

So, that is how it works? 

The lessons we learn here on the News Talkers.com are illuminating.

 
 
 
al Jizzerrorr
Freshman Silent
4  al Jizzerrorr    9 months ago

Trump couldn't see the light if he was standing on the sun2kecc1.jpg

 
 
 
JohnRussell
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4.1  JohnRussell  replied to  al Jizzerrorr @4    9 months ago

He thinks gravity pulls water from northern California to southern California because southern is lower on the map. 

 
 
 
1stwarrior
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4.1.1  1stwarrior  replied to  JohnRussell @4.1    9 months ago

Nah - that would be AOC.

 
 
 
Dismayed Patriot
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4.1.2  Dismayed Patriot  replied to  1stwarrior @4.1.1    9 months ago
Trump’s wild verbal justifications for them are also worth examining, for two reasons. First, he’s the president, and many Americans will accept his claims as true when they are not. That’s a problem, because California does have serious water issues, including a decade-long drought interrupted by historic and deadly flooding. And we’re on the verge of driving iconic species like migratory Chinook salmon into extinction and choking Stockton and other Delta cities with stagnant, saline, toxic water as snowmelt that historically runs through and replenishes their region is diverted for other uses.

Misidentifying the problem is like arresting the wrong person for serial murder or administering the wrong medication to treat a contagious disease. It provides the illusion that problems are being solved when, in fact, they are festering.

Trump’s statements also provide valuable clues to the way he thinks.

Shape of the West

So let’s consider the nonexistent valve, which he discussed during his campaign, and the needlessly empty half-pipe, a newer imponderable that he brought up at the   Friday LA roundtable   before issuing his order. In Trump’s view, this imagined infrastructure lets “hundreds of millions of gallons of water flow down into Southern California” from the north, if only we’d let it.

How far north? Trump earlier spoke of Northern California, but by Friday he said the source was “the Pacific Northwest.” By the end of the day he claimed the water flowed down — “naturally” — from Canada.

It flows so steadily from north to south, he said — and has been doing so for millions of years — that we don’t even need reservoirs. If only we would turn the spigot, it would just keep coming.

That may be an almost accurate description of other river systems, like the Mississippi, which flows south from Minnesota near the Canadian border to the Gulf of Mexico (which   Trump is renaming the “Gulf of America” ).

But the West isn’t shaped like the central U.S., which slopes gently southward. In California, the low point is not at the bottom but in the middle — the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta. Inland rivers north of there flow south, but those to the south flow north. They don’t cross the Tehachapis, which separate Southern California from the rest of the state. 

The State Water Project, built in the 1960s, uses more electrical power than any other single project in the state to   pump Northern California water south   over the mountains. The transfer is anything but natural and requires dams to hold Sierra snowmelt and aqueducts to bring it to places it otherwise could never go.

Even if Trump doesn't understand CA water, that's not the point | Opinion

Why would anyone be stupid enough to just believe what comes out of that monumental moron's mouth even if he is the President? The only thing dumber than Donald Trump are those who actually believe what is coming out of Trumps mouth.

 
 
 
Eat The Press Do Not Read It
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4.2  Eat The Press Do Not Read It  replied to  al Jizzerrorr @4    9 months ago

There is NO LIGHT left in "Dirty Diaper Donnie", just SHAT STAINS everywhere, or so I have been advised by two of Trump'S legenanry advisors:

"GHOULIANI & The Smelly, Unbathed Steve BUNIONS"!

Samples are available at all MAGA meetings for only $50.00 per snif.

 
 
 
Gsquared
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5  Gsquared    9 months ago

It's another cover up.  Everyone knows Trump sticks it "where the sun don't shine".

 
 
 
Krishna
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5.1  Krishna  replied to  Gsquared @5    9 months ago
It's another cover up.

The actual problem is caused because its got the wrong name. It shouldn't be called "The Sun". Rather, it must be renamed: "The Donald Trump Sun".

 
 
 
Eat The Press Do Not Read It
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5.1.1  Eat The Press Do Not Read It  replied to  Krishna @5.1    9 months ago

Exactly, that solves all the problems that Amercanos face to this day.

 
 
 
CB
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6  CB    9 months ago

Well, now a new MAGA activity is afoot to stop the rest of MAGA youth from knowing where the sun goes at night. . . they're leaving the school issued chromebooks and Ipads out of their children's future educational planning. And these are the same set of folks that talk about liberals INTERFERING in the lives of children. Pen and paper is fair enough. . . until one realizes s/he is outclassed by someone who can use smart devices to get things done faster and efficiently to boot!

 
 
 
Eat The Press Do Not Read It
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6.1  Eat The Press Do Not Read It  replied to  CB @6    9 months ago

I am almost certain that I saw the SUN at a DRIVE-IN THEATER in Mildew, Ohio, where there are NO jobs! No, no, no! 

Not even "Blow Jobs", whatever that means. It means!

 
 
 
Trout Giggles
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6.1.1  Trout Giggles  replied to  Eat The Press Do Not Read It @6.1    9 months ago

no blow jobs at a drive-in movie?????

 
 
 
Bob Nelson
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6.1.2  Bob Nelson  replied to  Trout Giggles @6.1.1    9 months ago

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cjcold
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6.1.3  cjcold  replied to  Trout Giggles @6.1.1    9 months ago

My first blow job was at drive in movie.

Wait! Why isn't it called a suck job?!

 
 
 
bccrane
Freshman Silent
6.2  bccrane  replied to  CB @6    9 months ago
until one realizes s/he is outclassed by someone who can use smart devices to get things done faster and efficiently to boot!

Without knowing or what the process was that that device used to come up with what it did. 

This reminds me of going through high school and in the college math courses the other students invested in Texas Instruments calculators and they were entering equations into them to get the answers and all I had was a cheap calculator in which the highest function was the square root.  I was the top of the class for I had to understand the equations and aced the tests where the TI calculators weren't to be used.

 
 
 
CB
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6.2.1  CB  replied to  bccrane @6.2    9 months ago

What makes you think smart devices equipped with AI can not help users understand its responses? Because AI can break down information. . . in bits 'consumable' to understand to children and adults. (Just ask it about it. . .if you have any AI around to ask that is.)

 
 
 
Split Personality
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6.2.2  Split Personality  replied to  CB @6.2.1    9 months ago

I probably ask AI a dozen questions a day that I already know the answer to.

It is not emotive. It has no intuition and is rarely correct.

In fact to get the correct answer one has to be so precise it isn't worth the time it takes to question it.

If it's a yes or no question it does pretty well and usually has more correct info than not.

but it is no panacea.

Kids should be able to read and write well enough to earn a device with AI, pad, tablet, phone etc. but AI itself is in its infancy and has a long way to go.

The government should heed this as well as the military and should not become dependent on Claude.

 
 
 
CB
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6.2.3  CB  replied to  Split Personality @6.2.2    9 months ago

Ironically, I was in the process of bragging on my (new) refurbished HP Windows 11 Pro I5 32 bit ram. computer and accidentally deleted the response to your comment! I have not had this happen to a comment in several years (since I learned not to let it happen to me). 

So the short version. I was addressing MAGA supporters "poo-pooing" change.

In my case, AI provides links in its articles which can be researched if/when something seems out of place or not 'whole.' Also, I take for granted (commonsense) kids will be taught to read and write. . . well. it is not that hard. At least, it was not for me!

As for what the future holds for 'tomorrow,'. . . the youth (of tomorrow) will have to 'go and see' as it will be amazing and incredible both—I'm sure. And one more thing, if tomorrow's youth do not learn to read and write well as youths that is on those who can not or will not 'do' it. Nobody else is responsible for them not acquiring the basics.

AI is here and if we do not advance it as a collective in this country, because of politics (dislike), no worries. . . other countries will do if for us. . . and likely use it to teach others the finer points of reading and writing.

Additionally, AI, when formally asked about breaking down complex data into portions that can be explained to 'babes'. . .I asked it can it do so. It states it can 'drill down' on information in a variety of ways to get points sufficiently across to 'anybody' (normally).

 
 
 
Split Personality
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6.2.4  Split Personality  replied to  CB @6.2.3    9 months ago

My old PC was becoming constipated on data and as version 10 Microsoft sent me a WDGAF anymore letter.

So I bought the best and last DELL PC I will ever need and still suffer from "operator error"

just lightning speed faster.

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CB
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6.2.5  CB  replied to  Split Personality @6.2.4    9 months ago

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CB
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6.2.6  CB  replied to  Split Personality @6.2.4    9 months ago

BTW, have you, Bob, or 'anybody else' ever gotten rid of old computers. . .? My old ones are stored around the house here. They are piling up!

 
 
 
Split Personality
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6.2.7  Split Personality  replied to  CB @6.2.6    9 months ago

We have a local recycler.  I usually keep the hard drives and he disassembles them for the valuable elements and "rare earth". 

I used to repair pc's back in the days of DOS.  they take telephone cables, ethernet, old 2 prong extension cords etc

The magnets out of older hardrives are ridiculous and perfect for destroying data, so evetually the old hard drives are wiped and I just sent some over with all of the old smoke detectors

Phones, old batteries for Craftmaan tool or Roombas  they take it all and make sure it is handled properly

 
 
 
CB
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6.2.8  CB  replied to  Split Personality @6.2.7    9 months ago

Thank you! :)

 
 
 
bccrane
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6.2.9  bccrane  replied to  CB @6.2.6    9 months ago

I still have my Heath/Zenith H88/89 computer which I put together in 1978/79 from a kit and expanded it later with a double 5-1/4" floppy disc add on memory and a reel to reel cassette backup.

 
 
 
Split Personality
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6.2.10  Split Personality  replied to  bccrane @6.2.9    9 months ago

Been there, lol.

 
 
 
CB
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6.2.11  CB  replied to  bccrane @6.2.9    9 months ago

Whaaaaat?!!!  That is remarkable, awesome, and 'amazing.' :)   

(As much as I am enjoying this, I must remind myself (and us) that the topic is. . . satire.)

 
 
 
Bob Nelson
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6.2.12  Bob Nelson  replied to  bccrane @6.2.9    9 months ago
I still have my Heath/Zenith H88/89 computer

Maximum respect!!

 
 
 
bccrane
Freshman Silent
6.2.13  bccrane  replied to  CB @6.2.11    9 months ago

Mind you, it is pretty much useless now.  Incompatible and obsolete, no graphics, and a monochrome screen.  It was basically a glorified calculator and word processor, which you had to write the programs in Basic and enter them into the computer using the keyboard and if you goofed you had to go through the debugging process to figure it out, but was able to use it for the business inventory system into the late 80s. 

 
 
 
Dismayed Patriot
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7  Dismayed Patriot    9 months ago

This was just the next logical step after so many years of conservatives telling everyone and their children they're going to stick Democrat policy 'where the sun don't shine' but failing miserably. Now they have to try and convince their voters that 'no one knows' where 'the sun doesn't shine' so it's not their fault.

 
 
 
cjcold
Professor Quiet
8  cjcold    9 months ago

So glad to hear that anthropogenic global warming/climate change doesn't exist. I should just stfu and let Trump solve all my sciency types of problems!

 
 

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