Kakistocracy On Display
We are not being governed by smart people.
On the one hand, the two following examples are small. On the other hand, they just underscore that the current administration is populated by people who aren’t very smart.
No wonder they didn’t just use existing treaties and agreements to get what they wanted out of Greenland. If you are too dense to know that penguins aren’t from Greenland, it probably taxes your research skills to find out about the relevant 1951 agreement.
And then there’s this:
This is cable news/talk radio logic. Oh, look, it’s cold outside! That proves climate change isn’t real!
Which is, of course, not how any of this works. Even having to point this out makes my head hurt a little.
Update: Some levity to go with the stupidity.
I haven’t heard one word about “record cold wave” in any news reports. They all speak of massive storms, meaning lots of precipitation. Now, warmer air holds more moisture than colder air. So, when wet air cools down it loses that moisture. How? It precipitates and falls down as rain or snow. Therefore such storms will be more frequent because the planet is warming up.
Penguins are native tot he southern hemisphere. But this comes from the so-called administration that cannot tell Iceland apart from Greenland.
If I see one more picture of that fat, ugly, vindictive cretin doing his asinine dance, I’ll throw up.
There’s been a factoid circulating online about penguins for a few weeks. When one of them gets overstressed, it will break away from the colony and then just start marching towards the mountains to die. This is a different behavior than the mass migrations.
Accuracy of factoid is unknown (even if the actions are accurate, it would require knowing the inner thoughts of a penguin), and it’s probably not what the Trump-penguin thing is trying to say.
But, please little AI penguin, lead that man to the mountains.
@Kathy: Big picture seems to be a very cold air mass coming from the north, running into an atmospheric river sort of air flow along and inland from the Gulf. The real threat is lots of ice from freezing rain from Texas across to Virginia. Once there’s more than a quarter inch of ice the power outages start: long spans of wire breaking from the weight in some cases, more commonly tree branches breaking off and taking down the wires. An inch of ice can take down the big pylons used in HV long-distance transmission. Temperatures 20-30 degrees below normal once the precipitation moves out. None of this is record-breaking, but it has the potential to be very nasty for millions of people.
Accuweather’s take on what’s happening.
Trump will not be attending the Super Bowl because it is “too far away.”
I’m hoping this is because his physical decline makes it impossible, but he is more likely just upset about Bad Bunny or that the Super Bowl won’t be held somewhere with more adoring Trump fans. I am amused that the response to Republicans’ criticism of Señor Bunny’s halftime show was to book Green Day as an opening act.
(I assume this thread is meant to encompass all of today’s frivolous and stupid Trump antics, with the death and destruction under other posts)
@Gustopher:
Trump has always had an aversion to traveling to the western half of the country. During his first term, he had visited six European countries before he set foot west of the Mississippi River.
@Gustopher: “I am amused that the response to Republicans’ criticism of Señor Bunny’s halftime show was to book Green Day as an opening act.”
You mean this Green Day?
Well, maybe I’m the faggot, America
I’m not a part of a redneck agenda
Now everybody, do the propaganda
And sing along to the age of paranoia
Welcome to a new kind of tension
All across the alienation
Where everything isn’t meant to be okay
In television dreams of tomorrow
We’re not the ones who’re meant to follow
For that’s enough to argue
Ice forms on the arms of the windmills and breaks them off. Fact! That’s why America needs lots more good hot coal fires providing power for the trillions of dollars of data centres other countries are investing in thanks to Your Favourite President’s trade deals.
“Idiocracy” was a documentary.
And we iz living in it.
Biology pedantry time! Yay!
Ackshually, the original penguin, the Great Auk aka Pinguinus impennis aka in vernacualur, penguin or garefowl, was a Greenland resident.
Along with other North Atlantic areas; till humans wiped them out.
The current penguins were so named when northern sailors spotted black and white flightless birds in the southern hemisphere, and called them “penguins”.
The name stuck
@wr:
As I just learned, yes, this Green Day will play during the pre-game show. Note that for the last year or so, Billie Joe Armstrong has changed the lyrics to this during during live performances of American Idiot:
…I’m not a part of a maga agenda
@JohnSF:
In addition, there are penguins native to the northern hemisphere (just barely)… some Galápagos Penguins.