"Are you kidding me?" / Facepalm Thread (pt 2)

[spencer rifle]

“No matter how cynical I get I just can’t keep up.” - Nora Ephron

 

[DoggyDaddy]

DANG IT! I took some just last night. They got me.

I take it every night. I do have a pretty nice tan. I never made the connection!

 

[printcraft]

I take it every night. I do have a pretty nice tan. I never made the connection!

Me too! My wife goes to the tanning bed, I don't and I'm darker than her... pisses her off to no end.

 

[Dr.Midnight]

Me too! My wife goes to the tanning bed, I don't and I'm darker than her... pisses her off to no end.

Tell her to mow five acres of grass every four days like I have this Summer and she can have a dandy tan too. #pleasestopraining.

 

[Cameramonkey]

general politics thread dudes. How about moving it to there please?
I made a mistake putting it here.

Yes dad.... *kicks rocks*

 

[DoggyDaddy]

Yes dad.... *kicks rocks*

Don't make him turn this thread around!

 

[Hatin Since 87]

Novelist who wrote about ‘How to Murder Your Husband’ charged with murdering her husband

I’m guessing that didn’t help her sales any

 

[DoggyDaddy]

I’m guessing that didn’t help her sales any

Well, she didn't call the book, "How to Murder Your Husband and Get Away With It."

 

[actaeon277]

Yes dad.... *kicks rocks*

go on over to the thread. Someone's trying to say the missing water wasn't a big deal, and it's Pres. Trump's fault anyway.

 

[amboy49]

Tell her to mow five acres of grass every four days like I have this Summer and she can have a dandy tan too. #pleasestopraining.

Tell her not to wish for something she may not want. The sun, and tanning booths even more so, can have a very harmful effect. This is what surgery to remove melanoma from subcutaneous skin cells looks like.


(Sorry if the pic is upside down - click on the pic and I think it will appear right side up)

 

[printcraft]

yeah, it is what it is...

[video=youtube;j4XT-l-_3y0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4XT-l-_3y0[/video]

 

[ArcadiaGP]

go on over to the thread. Someone's trying to say the missing water wasn't a big deal, and it's Pres. Trump's fault anyway.

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1040217897703026689

Regardless, this is a weird tweet.

Edit: I didn't know "Puerto Rico Death Truthers" were a thing, but good morning Twitter.

 

[ArcadiaGP]

I'm sure the next tweet in that thread will clear this all uOH MY GOD.

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1040220855400386560

 

[T.Lex]

Are you kidding me that we - the US of freakin' A - can't figure out how many people died in a natural disaster, within a small margin of error?

Why in the world would it require an academic study to figure it out? Are there no records kept?

I kinda don't care what the number is. I care that we don't actually KNOW the number.

 

[ArcadiaGP]

So this is fitting to this thread... but feel free to carry it over to genpol.

ThinkProgress said something wrong.
The Weekly Standard fact-checked them, which prompted Facebook to flag or do something to ThinkProgress's story.
ThinkProgress doubled-down, got pissed, and threw a tantrum.

Now... Slate... is coming to the defense of The Weekly Standard... even going as far to say that it's good to have Conservative journalists.

This is a surprisingly good Slate article.

https://slate.com/news-and-politics...ct-check-kavanaugh.html?wpsrc=sh_all_dt_tw_ru

 

[ArcadiaGP]

Are you kidding me that we - the US of freakin' A - can't figure out how many people died in a natural disaster, within a small margin of error?

Why in the world would it require an academic study to figure it out? Are there no records kept?

I kinda don't care what the number is. I care that we don't actually KNOW the number.

NBC has jumped on the tweets... abandoning journalism style sheets, apparently.

NBCPolitics
BREAKING: Pres. Trump rejects independent study that reports an estimated 2,975 people died in Puerto Rico in 5 months after Hurricane Maria; provides no evidence to discount the study; declares, without evidence, that the higher death toll is political ploy to make him look bad.

President Trump argues that the preliminary death toll he was given immediately after Hurricane Maria could not have gone up to the toll that independent study reports with an estimated 2,975 people dead; he does not site evidence to back up his refutation of the study.

 

[T.Lex]

NBC has jumped on the tweets... abandoning journalism style sheets, apparently.

In doing so, they actually help him.

I mean, its not like they can say "There were 2,975 dead people." They HAVE to say there was a study. A study doesn't mean 2,975 death certificates because of the hurricane. It means math. Math that does not actually correspond to actual people.

Which means Trump can claim victory over the MSM.

Even though WE DON'T ACTUALLY KNOW who died.

Talk about an inconvenient truth.

 

[spencer rifle]

So this is fitting to this thread... but feel free to carry it over to genpol.

ThinkProgress said something wrong.
The Weekly Standard fact-checked them, which prompted Facebook to flag or do something to ThinkProgress's story.
ThinkProgress doubled-down, got pissed, and threw a tantrum.

Now... Slate... is coming to the defense of The Weekly Standard... even going as far to say that it's good to have Conservative journalists.

This is a surprisingly good Slate article.

https://slate.com/news-and-politics...ct-check-kavanaugh.html?wpsrc=sh_all_dt_tw_ru

Something something blind pig something acorn something...

 

[ArcadiaGP]

Swing-and-a-miss by the NRA.

The headline here may sound like an exaggeration... but the NRA video really is nuts.

NRA depicts children's show characters in KKK hoods to criticize cast diversity

 

[HoughMade]

Are you kidding me that we - the US of freakin' A - can't figure out how many people died in a natural disaster, within a small margin of error?

Why in the world would it require an academic study to figure it out? Are there no records kept?

I kinda don't care what the number is. I care that we don't actually KNOW the number.

Well, it's easy to tell how many people died directly from the storm, drowning, injuries, etc.

What is difficult is sorting out the claims of advocacy groups (money raisers) much later after the fact who will blame every death of every elderly and sick person for the next 2 years on the storm because of some tenuous causal connection that may or may not exist. President Trump is probably about right. Under 20 in the actual storm itself.