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WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)Blasting dumb scientists for not thinking of this before, Donald J. Trump said that the planet would cool down right away if everyone would just turn on the air-conditioning.
Scientists go around with their lab coats and test tubes and act like the planet is burning up, he said. I guess those beauties have never thought of turning on the A.C.
Air-conditioning is the answer, he said. Its the hydroxychloroquine of climate.
Arguing that his theory was based on math, Trump illustrated what would happen to the planets temperature if people around the world all turned on the air-conditioning at the exact same time.
Lets say two billion people each turned down the A.C. four degrees, he said. Just like that, the planet would be eight billion degrees cooler.
Trump disclosed that he did not come up with this mathematical equation all by himself, acknowledging the assistance of the Secretary of Education, Betsy DeVos.
Short article, no more at link: https://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/trump-says-earth-will-cool-down-if-everyone-just-turns-on-air-conditioning
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TigressDem
(5,121 posts)OMG what an ignoramus.
Dial H For Hero
(2,971 posts)TigressDem
(5,121 posts)Doesn't the Onion have to keep re-writing stuff because they think something is so far fetched it couldn't be true, then it is.
Dial H For Hero
(2,971 posts)Only a bit, mind you.
TigressDem
(5,121 posts)Dial H For Hero
(2,971 posts)Claustrum
(4,845 posts)Rhiannon12866
(203,033 posts)Claustrum
(4,845 posts)Of course it is increasingly hard to because of how crazy Trump is. But this is really something he could say.
TigressDem
(5,121 posts)The Daily Newspapers read like an Onion article.
https://www.theonion.com/
Disaffected
(4,508 posts)read the article b/f I knew it was satire.
I'll bet if someone actually told Trump that, he would believe it.
AmyStrange
(7,989 posts)-
do the same thing, but as usual, stupid is as stupid does.
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Stallion
(6,473 posts)msongs
(67,199 posts)GeoWilliam750
(2,519 posts)Has the Department of Irony stopped issuing new licences?
Is it still operating?
Initech
(99,915 posts)Rhiannon12866
(203,033 posts)Silent3
(15,020 posts)...I'll bet a lot of people don't understand the thermodynamics of A/C, that A/C works by simply moving heat from one place to another, and because of the inherent inefficiencies of that process, the result of A/C is a net INCREASE in heat.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)Cranking it down to 55 degrees tonight! That should do the trick.
OMG, this is getting so insane that even poor Andy Borowitz might be out of a job!
Thanks for posting, Rhiannon!
Rhiannon12866
(203,033 posts)AND he's able to convince his "followers" to believe them, too! I read that there were folks who really drank bleach! Now that is truly insane, but that's the kind of effect he has on these cult members! Like you said, Andy Borowitz's job gets easier every day, eventually it's going to just be mainstream news...
Gothmog
(144,005 posts)Rhiannon12866
(203,033 posts)treestar
(82,383 posts)grantcart
(53,061 posts)Like the show about half of the people on this thread never got the premise.
A HERETIC I AM
(24,321 posts)I shit you not. This guy looked me right in the eye and proceeded to explain how air conditioners got water from the air and all you had to do was turn enough of them on, collect the water they produced and put it in a reservoir.
I was astounded. When I pushed back, saying it was an absurd notion that electrically powered AC units could possibly condense enough water to replace the reduced snowpack in the Sierras, he called me stupid!!
I shook my head and went back to my beer.
Borowitz is funny as hell, but between him and The Onion, these writers have to take an extra step to go past the absurd reality that is this president.