From: Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com>
Newsgroups: alt.global-warming,alt.fan.rush-limbaugh,can.politics,alt.politics.liberalism,alt.politics.democrats,alt.politics.usa.republican
Subject: Re: Trump Has A Sharpie, And Was EXACTLY Right About Hurricane Dorian
Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2025 12:18:19 -0800
Organization: A noiseless patient Spider
On 2025-02-28 22:00, AlleyCat wrote:
>
> On Fri, 28 Feb 2025 20:12:56 -0800, Alan says...
>
>>> Why Trump was right, along with CNN:
>>>
>>> https://i.imgur.com/2Yuujil.mp4
>>
>> What date did CNN make that report.
>
> Does not matter.
>
> You still don't seem to get it.
>
> WHY would Trump, IF he had updated reports, CARER if Dorian MIGHT
> hit Alabama and Mississippi.
>
> What, EXACTLY, was he trying to convey and WHY?
He made an error. The problem is that he didn't want to ADMIT to having
made an error.
>
> And WHY did The NOAA confirm what Trump said?
They didn't.
>
> This makes NO sense to argue.
>
> What Trump did had no purpose, so WHY do you faggot finger-pointers
> keep saying he was wrong, when he clearly wasn't, if his aides were
> using the latest reports and THAT is what they gave Trump.
They didn't give him reports that were three and a half days out of date.
And if they had, he could have claimed that.
>
> Also, the Sharpie provided NO "new" information, as all it was doing
> was extending the path already set by The NOAA. If Trump or his
> aides CHANGED the path, before The NOAA had, THEN, it would be a
> story. But to simply extend the cone out a few more hours, did
> NOTHING to change anything.
It wasn't a path, and he used an old track to try and justify his mistake.
>
> Was the path SO much different when Trump made his, now infamous
> Sharpie cone?
He made that cone after all this came out.
So yes, the path was VERY different.
>
> HOW much different?
>
> Was it SOOOO much different, that Alabama, Florida and Mississippi
> COMPLETELY out of danger?
But the time he presented his doctored map?
He didn't present the doctored map until September 4th.
>
> Hell, fucking no.
>
> *I* almost got hit by the same hurricane TWICE in one week, in 1987.
>
> https://i.imgur.com/aLmMEhV.jpg
>
> It came close enough to have to clear my beach twice of Hobies and
> all the chairs and umbrellas.
>
> Hurricanes change paths. Trump was NOT wrong to say those states
> were still "in the path", because like MANY hurricanes, the paths
> could have changed.
He was wrong.
>
>> <https://x.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1168174613827899393>
>
>> That was at 7:51 am.
>
> Uhhh... that's not the same tweet as the one with the Sharpie.
There was no "tweet" with the Sharpie.
He presented the map with the sharpie on television. Try and keep up.
That's the tweet he presented on September 1, 2019 at 7:51am, where he
later tried to justify that he wasn't wrong by presenting a doctored map
of the predicted track of the storm from 3 days, 9 hours and 51 minutes
before he made that tweet.
The actual map of the track AT THE TIME HE MADE THAT TWEET was this:
<https://drive.google.com/file/d/1J6IrOTLjNuZxzpjyHZZRLPX2JnS5-lxq/view>
And as anyone can see, the predicted track of Dorian at that time (5am
is actually just less than 3 hours before he tweeted...
...no wait, it's actually worse than that!
X/Twitter shows the times of tweets in the local time zone of the
viewer, so a tweet that shows as 7:51am for me, is actually 10:51am for
Trump.
So Trump used a map that was 3 days, 12 hours, and 51 minutes old to try
and pretend he hadn't just got it wrong.
But my, my, my...
...so many posts at 1am on a Friday night.
What a great life you must have!