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Rhiannon12866

(203,033 posts)
Tue Sep 15, 2020, 09:25 PM Sep 2020

Trump Says Earth Will Cool Down If Everyone Just Turns On Air-Conditioning

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. “It’s the hydroxychloroquine of climate.”

Arguing that his theory was “based on math,” Trump illustrated what would happen to the planet’s temperature if people around the world all turned on the air-conditioning at the exact same time.

“Let’s 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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Trump Says Earth Will Cool Down If Everyone Just Turns On Air-Conditioning (Original Post) Rhiannon12866 Sep 2020 OP
Except that anyone who actually SEES their air conditioner knows that AC kicks the hot air OUTSIDE. TigressDem Sep 2020 #1
If you go to the link, you'll see this is satire. Dial H For Hero Sep 2020 #4
Well, with his track record, he could have said it. Easily. TigressDem Sep 2020 #7
It struck me a a bit over the top. Dial H For Hero Sep 2020 #8
From the guy who suggested people use bleach against Covid, I could believe just about anything. nt TigressDem Sep 2020 #12
Point in your favor. Dial H For Hero Sep 2020 #14
You got me this time 0.o Claustrum Sep 2020 #2
There are people who would believe this... Rhiannon12866 Sep 2020 #5
I am usually very good at picking up that it's satire. Claustrum Sep 2020 #6
But how do you KNOW any more? TigressDem Sep 2020 #13
As usual, I had to Disaffected Sep 2020 #3
You'd think the ice at the North and South poles would... AmyStrange Sep 2020 #9
Duh! What do you think we are a bunch of "Morans" Stallion Sep 2020 #10
only if we all open our doors and windows 24/7 nt msongs Sep 2020 #11
I was wondering GeoWilliam750 Sep 2020 #15
Or we could just use the Futurama solution and drop a giant ice cube in the ocean. Initech Sep 2020 #16
Oh, let's hope that Trump never sees that! Rhiannon12866 Sep 2020 #17
While most people, even fairly stupid people, know this coudn't work... Silent3 Sep 2020 #18
Well! I'm willing to do my part! smirkymonkey Sep 2020 #19
The scary part is that these are the kinds of things Trump actually believes! Rhiannon12866 Sep 2020 #20
I love good satire Gothmog Sep 2020 #21
So do I - as well as smart political cartoons... Rhiannon12866 Sep 2020 #22
That actually sounds like something the idiot would say treestar Sep 2020 #23
This sounds like a caller on the Phil Hendrie show and grantcart Sep 2020 #24
I actually had a guy insist the answer to California's water problems was air conditioners. A HERETIC I AM Sep 2020 #25

TigressDem

(5,121 posts)
1. Except that anyone who actually SEES their air conditioner knows that AC kicks the hot air OUTSIDE.
Tue Sep 15, 2020, 09:27 PM
Sep 2020

OMG what an ignoramus.


TigressDem

(5,121 posts)
7. Well, with his track record, he could have said it. Easily.
Tue Sep 15, 2020, 09:32 PM
Sep 2020

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.


Claustrum

(4,845 posts)
6. I am usually very good at picking up that it's satire.
Tue Sep 15, 2020, 09:32 PM
Sep 2020

Of course it is increasingly hard to because of how crazy Trump is. But this is really something he could say.

Disaffected

(4,508 posts)
3. As usual, I had to
Tue Sep 15, 2020, 09:29 PM
Sep 2020

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)
9. You'd think the ice at the North and South poles would...
Tue Sep 15, 2020, 09:44 PM
Sep 2020

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do the same thing, but as usual, stupid is as stupid does.
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Silent3

(15,020 posts)
18. While most people, even fairly stupid people, know this coudn't work...
Tue Sep 15, 2020, 11:03 PM
Sep 2020

...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)
19. Well! I'm willing to do my part!
Tue Sep 15, 2020, 11:07 PM
Sep 2020

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)
20. The scary part is that these are the kinds of things Trump actually believes!
Tue Sep 15, 2020, 11:15 PM
Sep 2020

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...

grantcart

(53,061 posts)
24. This sounds like a caller on the Phil Hendrie show and
Wed Sep 16, 2020, 08:35 AM
Sep 2020

Like the show about half of the people on this thread never got the premise.

A HERETIC I AM

(24,321 posts)
25. I actually had a guy insist the answer to California's water problems was air conditioners.
Wed Sep 16, 2020, 08:42 AM
Sep 2020

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 Sierra’s, 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.

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