Donald Trumple Orange-skin's War On Reality

[bodysong]

Donald Trumple Orange-skin's War On Reality

September 4, 2019

Washington Post

Opinion- Philip Bump

Trump’s war on reality enters bizarre new terrain

"You see, on Sunday morning Trump had tweeted
a warning to Alabamians that the hurricane was
threatening their state."

"When ABC’s Jonathan Karl noted that Trump
had been wrong in saying the storm threatened
Alabama, Trump raged about it on Twitter."

"This was Monday evening."

"By midday Wednesday, when Trump was briefing
reporters in the Oval Office, the little Sharpie spur
(on the weather map) over Alabama had appeared."

All of this backstory is important because it reveals
just how obviously ridiculous Trump’s charade actually
was. It’s trivial to check historic hurricane maps against
what Trump was showing. It’s obvious that the original
image didn’t include the marker-sketched loop, and Trump
made no comment suggesting that the addition was erroneous
or a mistake. It’s hard to argue, then, that the loop (that alters
the true weather map) was made for any other reason
than allowing Trump to talk about where the storm was headed —
toward the Gulf of Mexico and Alabama.

A map showed the truth. Suddenly, once in Trump’s hands,
the map showed something somewhere in between.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...ity-enters-bizarre-new-terrain/?noredirect=on

 

[bodysong]

After reading an opinion column, it occurred to me that
Trumple Orange-skin did something ridiculous because
he felt that Dorian was taking attention away from him.

(It never hurts him, to convert news-worthy coverage
into Trump-based nonsense, to fill the newsfeed. It dilutes
the impact of news investigations, and legal notices.)

Now, there are two versions- One version for people that might
be included on the dartboard of the acccurately researched,
and tracked hurricaine that exists in reality.

A second version, for FOX TV
info-tainment and Sinclair broadcasting.
An altered map, displaying a non-existent
hurricaine prediction.

(This next part, is a fantasy of mine, and has nothing to do
with the news, or reality...)

"Well, I'll be horn-swoggled! Trump has his own
map! The hurricaine got itself pregnant. Has a
baby bump. Or, maybe a tumor ?"

"Or, a second head, like that carnival calf."
"TV Preacher was right!"

"A hurricaine sent by Democrat Demons,
sent special, just to hurt Alabama. TV preacher
said there will be special prayers tonight, to fight
those Democrat Demons."

(The next day, praise is sent to the preacher, for
warding off a destructive hurricaine with his prayers.)

 

[KeithD]

It's more likely that Trump is just stupid.

 

[bodysong]

Trumpy is attention whoring, for some reason-

Spinning news straw, into threads of pure Trump Fuckery (fool's) gold.

Updates: - Source at DHS, of which FEMA is a part, tells CNN
that DHS didn’t bring that map - CNN Weather says 1/10th
of one county in south Alabama was included in one Dorian
forecast on Friday, but that map does not resemble the one
Trump showed

A source familiar with the matter says the Department of
Homeland Security, which oversees the Federal Emergency
Management Agency (FEMA), did not provide the altered
map Trump showed in the Oval Office.

"The map was not brought by DHS for this briefing," the source said.

CNN

A source familiar with the matter says the Department of Homeland
Security, which oversees the Federal Emergency Management
Agency, did not provide the altered map Trump showed in the Oval Office.

"The map was not brought by DHS for this briefing," the source said.

https://www.cnn.com/2019/09/04/politics/donald-trump-hurricane-alabama-map/index.html

Spaghetti plots like the one Trump tweeted are not forecasts.
Instead, they show raw output from a computer model, with
their data taken into account by the National Hurricane Center
meteorologists who issue the official center forecast.

6 hours ago

The NOAA is declining to answer questions on the
apparently-altered hurricane map the president displayed
this afternoon, referring questions to the White House,
which has not provided an immediate explanation.

Story from @maeganvaz

Daniel Dale (@ddale8)


"He then quadrupled down on the false Alabama claim:

"We have a better map."

https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-...as-in-its-path

(Sharpie fictions do not make an official document better
than it was.)


Then Trump doubled down with a spaghetti model that didn’t
quite show what he said it was showing.

tweet dated for September 4, 2019


Whatever, the case, many have commented that it looks a lot
like it was drawn on with a sharpie, hence the “sharpiegate”
tweets.

Also: falsifying government weather reports just happens to
be illegal. 18 U.S. Code § 2074 reads: “Whoever knowingly
issues or publishes any counterfeit weather forecast or warning
of weather conditions falsely representing such forecast or
warning to have been issued or published by the Weather
Bureau, United States Signal Service, or other branch of the
Government service, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned
not more than ninety days, or both.”

Heavy

 

[bodysong]

What need is there for a huge, silly distraction ?

Trump's decison to deport sick and dying children
from American hospitals.

The Mike Pence swindle in Ireland attracted attention.

Recession 2020 is looming in the background.

Trump's administration allowed moodle Melania into
America, as an Einstein (Genius) Visa Recipient...

Melania barely made it through ONE year of college.

https://crooksandliars.com/2019/09/e...-melania-trump

“The Executive Branch should use the appropriate channels
in Congress, rather than divert already appropriated funding
away from military construction projects and therefore
undermining military readiness.”

https://beta.washingtonpost.com/worl...?noredirect=on

Mexico is not paying for The Fence.

We are.

Trump's administration is diverting $3.6 billion from military projects for the wall.

127 projects fall by the wayside.

Hundreds of thousands of jobs will be lost.

FEMA money is going to the Fence.

Trump today defended a decision to divert millions
from FEMA funds to pay for Immigrations and
Customs Enforcement instead as a hurricane bears
down on the U.S.

https://www.mediaite.com/trump/trum...to-send-to-border-we-need-help-on-the-border/

Puerto Rico is not getting their recovery money-
It is going to for Trump's Fence.

Trump's good campaign contributor, the NRA,
is named a domestic terrorist organization,
in San Francisco.

https://www.latimes.com/california/...sco-board-nra-domestic-terrorist-organization

His friend Boris Johnson is a loser. Triple defeat.

North Korea is not going to allow the UN to interfere in
the (deliberate?) starvation of North Koreans.

Denmark has a Baby Trump balloon.

Maybe, Trump does not love Nordic countries as much
as he has been advertising. They stick with Democrat
values, and they stick with the protection of ecology.

The Greenland farce was just a joke based on old facts, used for distraction.

Trump picked up the technique while he fished for publicity at the fake Wrestling
shows. Arguments attract attention. Trump cannot very well tackle and wrestle
a world leader, or hit them with a chair. But, he can lob insults at them, and make
false accusations.

 

[bodysong]

11 of Trump's Fence projects funded by theft and raiding

* Repairs and upgrades to infrastructure and training facilities
on military bases in 23 states

* Funds for the Fort Campbell Middle School in Kentucky,
the Joint Base Andrews Child Development Center in Maryland,
and the Ambulatory Care Center at Camp Lejeune in North Carolina,
all of which serve service members and their families

* A fire/crash rescue station at Tyndall Air Force Base in Florida
* Small-arms fire ranges on bases in Indiana, Mississippi,
- Oklahoma and Wisconsin

* 10 upgrade projects to military bases in Puerto Rico
* 8 upgrade projects to a military base in Guam
* Upgrades and maintenance on U.S. bases in 19 foreign countries

* A series of projects in allied countries near Russia, including a
special operations training center in Estonia and upgrades to bases
in Poland, Hungary and Slovakia

All of this raiding of funds, for 175 miles of Trump's Fence-
Fix the old fence, replace some of the old fence.

Mexico isn’t paying — instead, U.S. taxpayers are, and we’re
doing it by taking money away from military bases and
service members’ kids.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/09/05/trumps-border-wall-is-now-monument-his-failure/

August 29, 2019

Even with Hurricane Dorian bearing down this week
on the Florida and Georgia coasts, it was revealed that
the Department of Homeland Security had plundered
more than $150 million from the FEMA’s disaster relief fund.
That money was shifted to a program designed to detain and
return Central American migrants to Mexico while they await
adjudication of their asylum claims in the United States.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opin...e9af22-c9d1-11e9-a1fe-ca46e8d573c0_story.html

Dept. Homeland Security Pulls Funds from FEMA,
Coast Guard, and TSA to pay for I.C.E operations at
the border.

Aug 28, 2019

 

[bodysong]

We still do not know who altered the weather map.

A Leak- (But what kind of leak was it ? Anyone that would
provide a leak that served their own purposes, has been ousted
and replaced by Trump. White House staff and aides will provide
a lie, at the drop of a MAGA hat.)

It was Trump who used a black Sharpie to mark up an official
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration map, which
he displayed during an Oval Office briefing on Wednesday,
according to a White House official who spoke on the condition
of anonymity to discuss internal deliberations.

-Toluse Olorunnipa and
Josh Dawsey

September 5 at 8:01

“No one else writes like that on a map with a black Sharpie,”
the official said of the map, which added Alabama into the
hurricane’s potential pathway inside the loop of the marker.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...597606-cfe7-11e9-8c1c-7c8ee785b855_story.html

While Dorian batters SC, the White House just released a statement
from Rear Admiral Peter Brown defending the president’s comments
on Dorian and Alabama. Brown says he briefed the president on Sept. 1
on the “possibility of tropical storm force winds in southeastern Alabama.”

—@jdawsey1

‘What I said was accurate!’:

Trump stays fixated on his Alabama error as hurricane pounds the Carolinas

“What I said was accurate! All Fake News in order to demean!”
Trump tweeted Thursday, adding:

“I accept the Fake News apologies!”

Has anyone confessed to using a Sharpie pen to alter a weather map?


For a fourth straight day, Trump’s White House sought to clean up
the president’s mistaken warnings to Alabama from Sunday

The White House also released a lengthy statement from Trump’s
homeland security and counterterrorism adviser, Rear Adm. Peter Brown,
that sought to defend Trump’s statements and his use of days-old maps.

“While speaking to the press on Sunday, September 1, the President
addressed Hurricane Dorian and its potential impact on multiple states,
including Alabama,” Brown wrote. “The President’s comments were based
on that morning’s Hurricane Dorian briefing, which included the possibility
of tropical storm force winds in southeastern Alabama."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...597606-cfe7-11e9-8c1c-7c8ee785b855_story.html

"Trump should have just admitted he made a mistake and
moved on!" Phil Klotzbach, a research scientist in the
Department of Atmospheric Science at Colorado State
University, told AP.

"Alabama was never in the five-day cone except for a tiny sliver
of the southeast corner of the state at one point," Weather dot com
meteorologist Bob Henson added.

https://www.newsweek.com/trump-refu...spite-being-called-out-meteorologists-1457968

(The battle is over who is winning the argument ? So much winning!)




September 5, 2019

President Donald Trump is still saying Hurricane Dorian posed
an early threat to Alabama, even as the storm pounds the East
Coast.

So how did the (Sharpie) marking get on the map?

“A spokesman for the Department of Homeland Security said that
he was unclear what the black line on the map was referring to”
before referring questions to the White House, according to
The New York Times.

- Simone Jasper

(The article appears in multiple papers-)

https://www.fresnobee.com/news/nation-world/national/article234735767.html

As Politico notes, someone inside the administration appears
to have done the doctoring of the chart, which might have
broken a law against falsely representing weather forecasts.
But it’s unclear who:

When pressed by reporters on what happened, Trump repeatedly said, “I don’t know.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opin...times-officials-tried-fabricate-trumps-truth/

Confronted by a reporter again about the apparent use of a sharpie
on the map, Mr Trump added: “I don't know, I don't know, I don't know.”.

(Trump lies- Does he know ?)


A Thick Black Line on a Hurricane Map Lands Trump
and Sharpie’s Maker in a Different Kind of Storm

The New York Times

I’m talking about the out-of-date National Hurricane Center map
of Hurricane Dorian’s projected path that Trump displayed
Wednesday — a map that someone who clearly knows nothing
about weather forecasting or rudimentary logic had crudely altered
with a black Sharpie (Trump’s preferred writing implement)
to protect the president’s massive yet eggshell-fragile ego.

Gee, who might that have been?

The other possibility is that someone on Trump’s staff used
a Sharpie to fulfill the mission of “proving” Trump right
even when he was wrong. That’s basically all the White
House communications shop does these days, anyway.

- Eugene Robinson

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opin...d95cec-d009-11e9-8c1c-7c8ee785b855_story.html

 

[bodysong]

There is a law that might be applied, and there are consequences for marking up an official
document with a Sharpie. It won't be Trump that faces those consequences.

Will there be a Presidential Pardon offered, to the one that steps forward, and
confesses to the crime ?

Trump has created a stupid situation, and Americans are stuck with
hearing about it.

Improv political theatre performance, shared between Trump and FOX TV ?

John Roberts Called Onto President Queeg's Carpet
Over Shep Smith's SharpieGate Coverage

9/05/19

"If Trump is going to use week-old obsolete intelligence reports on hurricanes
than (then?) what's to stop them from using week-old obsolete intelligence
reports, when it comes to Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria?"
- John Amato

Quote:

The President summoned Roberts "to hit back at Shepard Smith,"
the White House aide said.
(The American public does not have a credible witness, that has
a backstage pass to record what is said behind Trump's closed doors.
The Purge of the Un-Loyal happened, and Americans are expected to believe
a humble White House aide leaked a conversation that took place in the Oval
Office. Jake Tapper, Anchor and Chief Washington Correspondent for CNN
quotes the aide-

"A White House aide familiar with the Oval Office meeting with Roberts
said that Trump also voiced his displeasure about Fox News anchor
Shepard Smith's skeptical reporting about the Alabama map."

CNN gets hold of an email-

The President had one argument to make, according to an internal
Fox email Roberts sent about the meeting provided to CNN.

Roberts referred CNN to Fox News' public relations department
when asked for comment, which did not immediately respond to
CNN's request for comment.

https://www.cnn.com/2019/09/05/polit...use/index.html

Trump was very angry at Shep Smith, whom he claims nobody watches
because he's so low-rated, but Trump watches so there's that.

"Some things in Trumplandia are inexplicable," Smith opened.
"This week's edition that Alabama was at risk from hurricane Dorian."

"It wasn't."

https://crooksandliars.com/2019/09/j...esident-queegs
__________________

 

[bodysong]

Trump Wants to Steal From the Military to Pay for a Border Wall

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/201...teal-from-the-military-to-pay-for-border-wall

09.04.19

Tuesday, Trump's administration revealed that it would be paying for the wall
by diverting funds meant for the construction of elementary schools,
hazardous waste warehouse facilities, and fire stations, among other
Department of Defense initiatives.

All told, DOD pinpointed more than $1 billion
in mainland priorities that it was now shelving,
in addition to $1.8 billion in foreign-based projects,
and nearly $700 million in projects based in Guam,
Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands—all U.S. territories.

Among the notable items now on the backburner include-

$62 million for a middle school at Ft. Campbell in Kentucky

$13 million for a “child development center” at Joint Base Andrews
near Washington

More than $40 million to replace a hazardous materials warehouse in
Virginia

Nearly $11 million for a fire station replacement in Beaufort,
South Carolina

Nearly $95 million for an elementary school at Camp Mctureous
in Japan

Nearly $80 million for an elementary school replacement project
in Spangdahlem Air Base in Germany.

Since the Trump administration signaled in February it would
raid military construction funding to pay for the wall, the
working assumption on Capitol Hill among Democrats
had been that the White House would probably
privilege funding in states held by Republicans
while maximizing the pain for areas represented
by Democrats.

That’s true to some extent-

New York, the home of Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer,
will take the biggest hit of any state, with diversions from planned
projects at the U.S. Military Academy in West Point tagged at
$160 million. New Mexico, Virginia, and Maryland will all see
significant cuts, too.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/defen...that-will-lose-funding-to-pay-for-border-wall

Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC)

Tillis announced in February that he would vote against
the president’s effort to circumvent Congress and pay for
the wall by declaring a national emergency at the southern
border. Three weeks later, he backed down and gave his
blessing and vote to the president’s overreach.

The total includes $40 million for a new battalion complex
and ambulatory care center at Camp Lejeune, as well as a
planned elementary school to serve families at Fort Bragg.
The $80 million in N.C. cuts were more than in any other
state with a GOP senator facing reelection in 2020.

https://www.charlotteobserver.com/opinion/article234735037.html

Sen. Martha McSally (R-AZ)

McSally, who was appointed to her seat, will have to
deal with the loss of $30 million for an Army facility
in southern Arizona to her constituents.

In Alaska, the Defense Department deferred $8 million for the
expansion of a missile field at Fort Greely, home of the missile
defense system the Pentagon hopes will help counter missile
threats from adversaries like North Korea.

Virginia, the Pentagon is delaying over $40 million in funding
to bring hazardous waste storage up to current standards in a
Naval facility that serves as the main supply point for vessels
supporting NATO

It’s also icing $10 million to provide a new sensitive
compartmentalized information facility, or SCIF,
for the Air Force’s cybersecurity unit.

https://www.charlotteobserver.com/opinion/article234735037.html

 

[magicalmoments]

I don't believe the Dorian/Alabama saga was a distraction, in the sense of diverting media attention away from something else. I don't think he has the wit for that sort of strategic thinking. He just can't cope with being corrected or shown as being wrong. It consumes him, he can't let it go. Just like the size of the inauguration crowd.
Trump is not a strategic thinker. None of his trains of thought are connected in any cohesive way. He is a simple reactionary and makes things up as he goes along.

 

[KeithD]

And he formulates without any reference to history or science. The man is an intellectual dud. I doubt he's ever read a book.

 

[sharingfantasies]

President Trump's reelection campaign has started selling branded permanent markers following controversy this week over a map Trump displayed that apparently was altered with a black marker to back up his claims about Hurricane Dorian's original path. "Set the record straight!" reads the marker's description on the Trump campaign website.

Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale tweeted a photo of the markers on Friday, writing: "Buy the official Trump marker, which is different than every other marker on the market, because this one has the special ability to drive @CNN and the rest of the fake news crazy! #KeepMarkersGreat."

 

[bodysong]

Argue like a trump supporter-

Trump has also shifted ground on what claim he is defending
because on Thursday, he asserted that his belief had been that
“Alabama may also be grazed or hit” by the storm.

He had previously said there had been a “95 percent” chance
of the storm hitting the state.

One projection said there was a 5 percent chance of a tiny
part of the state feeling 39+ mph winds.

Alabama did not iclude themselves, since there as not much of a threat-

During a briefing at FEMA headquarters on Sunday afternoon,
Trump acknowledged governors who had dialed in from Florida,
Georgia, South Carolina and North Carolina.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...855_story.html#click=https:/*******n1yXQ2xsTt

NOAA backs Trump on Alabama hurricane forecast,
rebukes Weather Service for accurately contradicting
him

The federal agency that oversees the National Weather Service
has sided with (pResident tRumple Orange-Skin) over its
own scientists.


Released six days after Trump’s first tweet on the matter,
the NOAA statement was unsigned, neither from the
acting head of the agency nor any particular spokesman.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/weat...vice-office-that-accurately-contradicted-him/

https://www.alternet.org/2019/09/ut...y-releases-unsigned-statement-in-his-defense/

On Friday evening, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration,
a department in the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, released an unsigned
statement disputing the tweet from the Birmingham branch of the
National Weather Service which refuted the president’s claim.
The President also posted a video which excerpts a very early CNN
forecast about the possible path of the Hurricane, in which Alabama
is mentioned as in the hurricane’s possible path.

http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019...into-dorian-path-rather-than-admit-error.html

Who was that anonymous spokesperson ?

Who was it, that did not sign a statement ?

The NOAA has released a statement essentially disavowing
the National Weather Service in Birmingham’s tweet that contradicted
President Donald Trump’s claim that Dorian would hit Alabama.

NOAA just released a statement disavowing
Birmingham National Weather Service’s Tweet
saying Alabama wouldn’t get hit by Dorian,

NBC’s @akarl_smith reports:

The story is Trump’s broader corruption of the government.
The pattern is damning:

— Greg Sargent (@ThePlumLineGS) September 6, 2019

Wow. NOAA throws the National Weather Service
Office in Birmingham, Alabama under the bus.

Should be some interesting FOIA emails there.

— Jamie Dupree (@jamiedupree) September 6, 2019

https://www.mediaite.com/trump/noaa...vice-tweet-rebutting-trump-twitter-flips-out/

So much winning!



Too bad, it proves that he is the Sore Loser that he is.

 

[magicalmoments]

The title of this thread doesn't make sense.....

Yes it does. You just lack the intelligence to see it.

 

[KeithD]

Yes it does. You just lack the intelligence to see it.

Bingo.

 

[YDB95]

Yes it does. You just lack the intelligence to see it.

Or perhaps you're a victim of the war on reality yourself if you can't see it.

 

[bodysong]

The children of Kentucky military families are forced to remain
in a school that leaks and floods, has rooms with no AC. Classrooms
are shared by two classes.

Mitch McConnell voted for Trump's Fence
Moscow Mitch is blaming Trump's theft of funds from a school
on Democrats, because they voted against funding Trump's Fence

Look what you made Trump do!

https://www.cnn.com/2019/09/06/politics/mcconnell-middle-school-trump-border-wall/index.html

South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham says those kids should
be happy to keep eating lunch in the school library because
the cafeteria isn’t big enough for everyone.
“It’s better for the middle school kids in Kentucky to
have a secure border,” according to Graham.
“We’ll get them the school they need, but right now we’ve
got a national emergency on our hands.”

And how do Republicans intend to get the kids their new school?
By demanding that congressional Democrats pass funding for the
school again, with no promises that Trump doesn’t steal that money
for his wall, too.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/20...litary-kids-stuck-in-aging-overcrowded-school

REID:

The corruption is open but it's not fair to limit the focus on Donald Trump,
because these children and their parents have a Senator,
his name is Mitch McConnell, some might call him Moscow Mitch.
He doesn't like that, but that's okay. He doesn't have to like everything.
You don't get to like everything. Mitch McConnell, whose home state
of Kentucky will be hit by the funding shuffle to the tune of nearly
$63 million- recently(Moscow Mitch) talked to a reporter regarding
the issue and says he is committed to protecting the funding for the
Ft. Campbell Middle School project. How is he going to do that?

MYSTAL:

This is not just all Trump.

This is the Republican Party and I think the only good thing that will
come out of the Trump Administration is that I will no longer have to
hear for the rest of my natural life the Republicans care about the military-
because they don't and it's always been a lie, they never cared and
now this is the proof that the Republican Party, not the Democrats,
not Chuck Schumer, it's the Republican Party that does not care
about the military, they think they're toys, they think they're pawns
to be moved around a global chess board. I hope their media is listening,
because i'm not going to hear it again, i'm never going to hear it again.
I'm never going to have to hear again this lie that Republicans care
because they don't, and this is the proof.

REID:

Let's talk about the Republicans for a moment.

Are they moving too far to the right, when this set of Senators,
we're going to put them up here, name some more names.
They supported Donald Trump's emergency declaration.
This is the vehicle that he's using to steal the money out
of these states, including a lot of red states with a lot of
military families in order to take their money.

https://crooksandliars.com/2019/09/elie-mystal-sick-lie-gop-love

One project that will lose funding as a result of Trump’s wall —
the wall, which is now being paid for out of funds diverted as
part of the national emergency that Trump declared on
fabricated grounds — is on the Kentucky-Tennessee border.

That project is a planned middle school at the Fort Campbell
army base. The Pentagon has diverted $62.6 million in money
slotted for construction of that school, as part of the $3.6 billion
that has been shifted toward Trump’s wall.

The New York Times has a remarkable new report on the impact t
his will have on the military families who have eagerly awaited
the school’s construction. It means more than 500 students will
continue to “cram themselves in” at another school that’s already
very tight on space. That entails messy arrangements that will make
it harder for students to follow lessons.

McConnell himself had previously boasted of funding he had secured
for Fort Campbell families. Yet subsequently, McConnell voted to
uphold Trump’s national emergency, which will now take funding away.


https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/05/us/trump-border-wall-military-families.html

 

[bodysong]

Everything that Trump touches, dies.

Corruption and politics inside the National Weather Service ?

Where there is money, Trump is sure to find a way.

Trump wanted to appoint CEO Barry Myers as the Director of NOAA,
(He did not get his way.)

Barry Myers is not a scientist- He is a 76 year old businessman.
(AccuWeather is his family business) He hates Unions.

“I have never been so embarrassed by NOAA.
What they did is just disgusting,” Dan Sobien, president of the National
Weather Service’s labor union, wrote on Twitter Friday. “Let me assure
you the hard working employees of the NWS had nothing to do with t
he utterly disgusting and disingenuous tweet sent out by NOAA
management tonight.”

Mr. Myers was interviewed about his leadership of
Accuweather by the Wall Street Journal in 2014.

“Did you ever think about going into meteorology?

Barry Myers- "I did actually. I was originally enrolled in meteorology
as an undergraduate. I then dropped out of school
because I was a horrible student. I was never interested
in learning, which I look at now as sort of funny.”

https://www.commondreams.org/views/...ccuweather-ceo-barry-myers-and-dr-neil-jacobs

“Barry Myers defines ‘conflict of interest,'” said Ciaran Clayton,
who was communications director at NOAA in the Obama administration.
“He actively lobbied to privatize the National Weather Service, which works
day in and day out to protect the lives and livelihoods of millions of Americans,
to benefit his own company’s bottom line.”

Myers’s appointment is strongly opposed by the labor union for the
National Weather Service, the NWS Employees Organization, for this
same reason. “As NOAA administrator, he would be in a position to
fundamentally alter the nature of weather services that NOAA provides
the nation, to the benefit of his family-owned business,” said Richard Hirn,
a spokesperson for the union.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...seen-as-controversial/?utm_term=.3ee45b925d8b


Wonder Why NOAA Was So Quick To Lie For Trump?

https://crooksandliars.com/2019/09/wonder-why-noaa-was-so-quick-lie-trump

Acting (temporary?) NOAA Administrator Neil Jacobs

(Formerly Chief Atmospheric Scientist at Panasonic Avionics Corporation)

NOAA Director of Public Affairs, Julie Kay Roberts-Director of Communications for NOAA

Secretary Wilbur Ross, Commerce Department


None of them signed the NOAA letter, that shoved
Birmingham Alabama's NOAA under the bus. Why ?
They did not make themselves known to the public,
or stand up to be held accountable.

Gag Order Issued To NOAA scientists-

September 7 at 8:16 PM

Nearly a week before the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
publicly backed President Trump over its own scientists, a top NOAA official
warned its staff against contradicting the president.

In an agencywide directive sent Sept. 1 to National Weather Service personnel,
hours after Trump asserted, with no evidence, that Alabama “would most likely
be hit (much) harder than anticipated,”

They were also told not to “provide any opinion,” according to a copy of
the email obtained by The Washington Post.

(The gag order came after the National Weather Service office in Birmingham
contradicted Trump by tweeting Alabama would “NOT see any impacts from
the hurricane.)

The agency sent a similar message warning scientists and meteorologists
not to speak out on Sept. 4, after Trump showed a hurricane map from
Aug. 29 modified with a hand-drawn, half-circle in black Sharpie around
Alabama.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...e9-87fa-8501a456c003_story.html?noredirect=on

9/07/19

Julie Kay Roberts was formerly a member of the Donald Trump
2016 campaign and Inaugural Committee.

bodysong comment- Someone has to supply the computers and
eletronics to NOAA. Are there suppliers that give Trump campaign
money, as bribes ?

February 26, 2019

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration will not
debut its “next generation” weather forecasting model in March,
as planned.

Meanwhile, it has named Neil Jacobs as the acting head of the agency,
replacing retired Rear Adm. Timothy Gallaudet, who will step back
into a supporting role.

Less than a day before the model delay was announced, NOAA’s
Neil Jacobs emailed staff to inform them that he was stepping into
the role of the acting head of the agency, at the request of
Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross.

Before his NOAA tenure, Jacobs was chief atmospheric scientist
at Panasonic Avionics Corporation.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/weat...weather-forecast-model-names-new-acting-head/

Do people have a right to accessible weather information
that they pay for with their tax dollars?

Myers and AccuWeather, as well as Jacobs and Panasonic
appear to think not

2017/10/12

Dr. Neil Jacobs, Chief Atmospheric Scientist for Panasonic Weather
Solutions has also advocated for a greater role for private weather data.
His company sells their data and model outputs to NOAA as input to
weather forecasts. He has advocated for a greater role for the private
sector much as Mr. Myers has. Testifying before the House Science
Committee in July Dr. Jacobs advocated for the proprietary model
his company developed as “better” than the NOAA forecasting models.
According to a report from the hearing Dr. Jacobs stated that,
“… that a private company like Panasonic can move more quickly
than NOAA in improving its models and processes, because it does
not have to go through the years of quality and reliability testing that
NOAA requires when implementing major model upgrades.”
That is probably true but far from comforting for a service vital
to public safety. Will Dr. Jacobs carry that approach, shortcutting
reliability testing in order to get a product to market, into NOAA?
I hope not.

- Andrew Rosenberg

NOAA backs Trump on Alabama hurricane forecast,
rebukes Weather Service for accurately contradicting
him

September 6, 2019


The Weather Service's mission is to protect life and property.

By releasing the statement admonishing the agency
for an accurate forecast-

NOAA may be seen as putting politics before facts.

This could undermine forecasters' abillity to carry out their mission
to the point where people may come to see its weather forecasts
as political and untrustworthy."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/weat...at-accurately-contradicted-him/?noredirect=on

"Some administrator, or someone at the top of NOAA,
threw the National Weather Service under the bus,"
Brian McNoldy, a hurricane researcher at the University
of Miami, told NPR.

https://www.npr.org/2019/09/06/7585...ce-backs-trump-on-hurricane-threat-in-alabama

 

[bodysong]

Trump’s conspiracy theorist mindset was clear long before
his election, with his intransigent embrace of birtherism.
From Day 2 of his presidency -- when he claimed that the
National Park Service had doctored photographs of his
inaugural crowd – it was clear he would make unfounded
conspiracy theories a centerpiece of his style of governance.
Still, they never cease to shock.

Trump’s conspiratorial views have had real consequences.
In some cases, institutions and funding have been diverted
from their intended missions to address issues raised by the
president’s conspiracy-mongering, as when the military was
diverted from its appropriate operations and training and sent
to the southern border to deter, as Trump tweeted at the time,
“very bad thugs and gang members.”

This wreckage of normal order – institutions derailed, invented,
hijacked and circumvented – adds up to the delegitimization of
democratic government itself.

How do we pull back from what is becoming a dire situation?
As Americans, we need to demand facts and call out officials
who embrace unfounded conspiracy theories.
We need to pressure our representatives in Congress to protect
crucial institutions by acting decisively to defend the integrity
of democratic government. And, ultimately, we need to exercise
our right to vote -- and use it to demand truth.

By Russell Muirhead and Nancy L. Rosenblum

Sep. 8, 2019


https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2019-09-06/donald-trump-conspiracy-theories

 

[bodysong]

"Trump has replaced institutionalists attempting to curtail his
grossest instincts with loyalists happy to indulge them."

"Trump has created a cultlike devotion to his competence and
honesty, both of which are threatened by acknowledging his
falsehood about the hurricane."

"The norm of bureaucratic professionalism and fairness is a
pillar of the political legitimacy and economic strength of the
American system, the thing that separates countries like the
U.S. from countries like Russia. The decay of that (Russian)
culture is difficult to quantify, but the signs are everywhere."

(If Trump loyalists base their profession on collusion, complicity,
corruption, and defense of a hidden agenda, then there will be a
battle to free America from the quicksand pit of lies.)

"Trump’s stench is slowly seeping into every corner of government."
- Jonathan Chait

http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/09/trump-corruption-sharpiegate-hotel-biden.html

The putrid scent of Putin.

- bodysong

The lies are meant to troll the people that expect the truth to be told.

If Trump loyalists base their profession on collusion, complicity,
corruption, and defense of a hidden agenda, then there will be a
battle to free America from the quicksand pit of lies.

The people that replaced qualified institutionalists, swore
allegiance to the Cult of Trump.

They are not expected to be True Believers of Trump
Propaganda. They are just meant to carry out the orders
that they are given from Trump.)

Washington Post
Opinion

Trump isn’t even good at lying anymore

President Trump has never been good at governing, and has
never been able to fulfill the mourner-in-chief role.
But wasn’t he a better liar and more clever grifter
once upon a time?

- Jennifer Rubin

September 5, 2019

https://beta.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/09/05/trump-isnt-even-good-lying-any-more/

Ah, but, Jennifer, Trump believes himseself to be protected from everything.
He believes the Trump Alliance and Trump loyalists have his back.
Trump is behaving as if he were the tourist at the zoo.
He jumps the safety fence, and pokes at the tiger through the bars,
not thinking about the long claws extending from those huge paws.

 

[bodysong]

Since everyone in Trump's cabinet, office, and aides are "acting" (temps)
place holders, it is hard to know in what official capacity, each human form
of Trump megaphone is acting.

"Senior White House counselor Kellyanne Conway"- out in front of the
media and press, spouting nonsense- 9/15/19

June 13, 2019

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news...law-and-should-be-fired-federal-watchdog-says

https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...86ae2e-8df4-11e9-8f69-a2795fca3343_story.html

Democrats have argued that they have a constitutional duty
to conduct an impeachment inquiry, which is backed up by
the Constitution for the entire United States (and confirmed
by Alexander Hamilton's Federalist Papers #65) that
impeachment is the remedy if the public trust has
been abused.

https://crooksandliars.com/2019/09/kellyanne-conway-says-its-unconstitutional

Acting (temp) Director of National Intelligence Joseph Maguire
won't turn over a Whistleblower complaint at the behest of a
“higher authority"

House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff said-

Intel Director's Refusal to Reveal a Whistleblower Complaint is “Deeply Troubling,”

Mother Jones

https://www.politico.com/story/2019/09/13/schiff-maguire-intelligence-1496135

The acting director of national intelligence is refusing to comply
with a subpoena to turn over a whistleblower complaint , setting
up a legal showdown this week between the Trump administration
and a House committee.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...3033c0-d7d4-11e9-a1a5-162b8a9c9ca2_story.html

Details-

https://www.politico.com/story/2019/09/13/schiff-maguire-intelligence-1496135

 

[phrodeau]

“Obama Netflix!”

 

[bodysong]

Required reading for the handful of people who still think
@Snowden should have gone through "the proper channels"

— Trevor Timm (@trevortimm) September 18, 2019

In accordance with systems meant to insulate whistleblowers from
possible retaliation from agency heads, the Inspector General received
the complaint on August 12 and assessed it as "credible"—
a determination which by law requires the DNI to turn the
complaint over to congressional intelligence committees.

The whistleblower's disclosure described (pdf) "a serious or
flagrant problem, abuse, violation of law or executive order,
or deficiency" regarding national intelligence, according to
the alert Schiff received from the Inspector General, which
did not include further details.

"Under the statute as written, the Director of National Intelligence
doesn't have the discretion to not act or get a second opinion,"
Margaret Taylor, senior editor of the Lawfare Blog, told the Post.
"He just has to forward it to the intelligence committees."

As Daniel Drezner, a professor of international affairs at Tufts
University, put it on Twitter: "I really want to know what the hell
is going on here."

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2...sed-trumps-intelligence-director-refuses-give

Trump found the reporting on the matter of his blocking a Whistleblower
so serious, he found it necessary to target Rep. Ilhan Omar, to provide
a distraction.

September 18, 2019

On Wednesday, President Trump used his Twitter feed to share
a video that falsely depicted Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) partying
on the anniversary of 9/11. Yes, the president of the United States
cheerfully trafficked in disinformation.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opin...emocrats-ready-coming-disinformation-tsunami/

Rep. Omar says Trump ‘put my life at risk’ after he retweeted
a false claim that she ‘partied’ on 9/11 anniversary

The Congressional Black Caucus Foundation’s Annual Legislative
Conference took place Sept. 11-15 in Washington. Adam Green,
co-founder of the Progressive Change Campaign Committee,
tweeted the video of Omar dancing at one of the CBC events
on Sept. 13. The PCCC on Wednesday called the claim that
Omar “partied” on the anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks
“an abhorrent lie that endangers a member of Congress.”

“Twitter must remove Trump’s Tweet now,” the organization said.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...8d9c56-da20-11e9-ac63-3016711543fe_story.html

A spokeswoman for Twitter said it was looking into the matter.

 

[bodysong]

Trump Golf

09/21/2019

Saturday 4:31

Trump Natl, Potomac Falls, VA

Maybe, he played golf. Maybe not.

10:20 am-2:51 pm

https://trumpgolfcount.com/displayoutings

September 22, 2019

In remarks to reporters on the White House’s South Lawn
this morning, Donald Trump confirmed key reporting about
his own efforts to pressure Ukrainian leaders to investigate
Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden and his son Hunter.
In somewhat incoherent speech, Trump told reporters that he
personally made the request to the Ukrainian president.

Corruption allegations against Hunter Biden had already
been investigated, and Biden had long ago been cleared;
Trump and Giuliani’s narrative of events has been
thoroughly debunked.

Trump’s appearance was also noteworthy for his appearance
and demeanor; though early morning, Trump was flushed and
seemed to be sweating profusely.

https://www.alternet.org/2019/09/tr...an-president-to-investigate-democratic-rival/

 

[bodysong]

Trump was getting his Sudafed from the UK (2016)

Sudafed is sometimes used for a high that includes increased alertness,
but also has a side effect of pupil dilation.

— JRehling (@JRehling) October 5, 2019

Abuse of this drug was rare, but in order to limits its abuse, regulations
were passed limiting the frequency in which an individual could purchase it,
and requiring the individual show ID.

— JRehling (@JRehling) October 5, 2019

The desk drawer full of Sudafed, including boxes in New York purchased in the UK
indicate that the legal limits of purchase are being circumvented, and that the
then-candidate Trump was abusing Sudafed for its high rather than its
decongestant effect.

— JRehling (@JRehling) October 5, 2019


"A sign of abuse of this drug might be finding a large amount of
cold medicine drug packaging among someone’s belongings."

— JRehling (@JRehling) October 5, 2019

Add this to what Noel Casler has repeatedly said over the last couple of years.
Casler, a professional comedian, worked with Trump several times with his
Miss America pageants and The Apprentice show.

Trump snorted Adderall all thru the day on ‘Apprentice’ he also ate
UK. Sudafed like candy. But at night and at parties he switched to
cocaine and high-end Methamphetamine that was hand-delivered
by Bikers. The point is he was always high. That hasn’t changed.
@realDonaldTrump

— NoelCaslerComedy (@CaslerNoel) September 9, 2019

https://crooksandliars.com/2019/10/we-need-talk-about-picture-donald-trump

"Belladonna alkaloids/chlorpheniramine/pseudoephedrine sustained-release
tablets are an antihistamine, decongestant, and anticholinergic combination"

"Scopolamine, an alkaloid derived from the leaves of the belladonna plan"