"Meteorologists Get Death Threats as Hurricane Milton Conspiracy Theories Thrive

It's their job to warn residents about destructive storms " but political polarization has made them targets online."

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"People are just so far gone, it's honestly making me lose all faith in humanity," says Washington D.C.-based meteorologist Matthew Cappucci, in a phone interview conducted while he was traveling down to Florida for the storm.

"There's so much bad information floating around out there that the good information has become obscured."

Cappucci says that he's noticed an enormous change on social media in the last three months:

"Seemingly overnight, ideas that once would have been ridiculed as very fringe, outlandish
viewpoints are suddenly becoming mainstream and it's making my job much more difficult."

"At least 19 tornadoes touch down in Florida ahead of Hurricane Milton landfall

There are confirmed fatalities associated with the tornadoes, officials say. St. Lucie County officials confirmed that there are "multiple fatalities" following tornadoes in the area.

The fatalities are in the Spanish Lakes Community, they said."

"Some social media users also reference geoengineering, which NASA describes as proposed schemes "to reverse or limit climate change by intentional, large-scale manipulation of the Earth's climate."

But "geoengineering could not create or control hurricanes," said Joshua Horton, a senior program fellow studying solar geoengineering at Harvard University.

"It doesn't currently exist, but if it did, geoengineering would be much too imprecise to control weather or weather events like hurricanes," Horton said."

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"Hugh Willoughby, a research professor at Florida International University whose work focuses on hurricanes, said he's not aware of any U.S. programs to revive the hurricane modification project.

He said the idea that the government can control a hurricane is "utter nonsense."

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As 'utter nonsense'... this could make the Republican Party Platform!

I know, right?

'This was obviously a Hattian attempt to soften up the meat before BBQing!' - Shady JD Thiel

"Truth Social First Always!"

ft/nc

Your Cult Leader has his own Saudi, Chinese, Russian funded News from Truth Social... and you see no problem with that.

You must love Russia's propaganda news networks.

I know Trump does.

Just glad that some people are finally realizing that a political blog that is, 'Red Meat for Yellow Dogs' might have a slight bias.

But it's towards sanity and away from criminal traitors, so there's that.

#17

Absurdum infinitum.
or more correctly

Reductio ad absurdum.

TrumpyBelle has no argument, just a whiny voice.

And some salty tears... yum!

This is what happens when the Leader of your Party (see: Cult) is a criminal traitor.

"The Washington Post reported later that Judge's ex-girlfriend, Elizabeth Rasor, informed the Judiciary Committee through her lawyer on Wednesday that she is willing to speak to the committee and the FBI about her recollection of what Judge allegedly told her an incident involving group sex.

The New Yorker, in a story about Ramirez's allegations, reported Sunday that "Rasor recalled that Judge had told her ashamedly of an incident that involved him and other boys taking turns having sex with a drunk woman.

Rasor said that Judge seemed to regard it as fully consensual. She said that Judge did not name others involved in the incident, and she has no knowledge that Kavanaugh participated in it."

#12

A claimed description isn't an argument, it's an opinion.

In this case, it's the opinion of someone who supports a Traitor, according the the testimony of his own Aides and Lawyers, for the Presidency.

Which is where the old adage about considering the source is telling.

"Musk's massive X following makes his amplification of false information especially significant. With 199 million followers, Musk has 22 times the number of followers as the official White House account, nine times more than The Wall Street Journal, three times more than The New York Times, and twice as many as pop star Taylor Swift.

A closer look: We reviewed more than 4,000 of Musk's posts from Jan. 1, 2024, to June 30, 2024, to see which accounts he interacted with most frequently. Interactions include when Musk posts a link, quotes a post, responds to a post, or reposts.

Here are the top five accounts that Musk engaged with over this six-month period, according to NewsGuard's review:

1. @EndWokeness (220 Musk interactions), a conservative commentator, has spread nine false claims, including that Haitian migrants are stealing and eating pets in Springfield, Ohio, and that the body of a five-month-old Palestinian baby killed in the Israel-Hamas war was actually a silicone doll.

Musk engaged with this account more than once per day, on average, during the six-month period."

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There's also a video highlighting this article, but also giving a look at the REAL Dark MAGA... .

Elon Musk and Dark MAGA

You should be OK over there... prolly a nice bit of surf.

My daughter is in the Keys, and they don't mind missing this one.

Robson: Giving lucidity a bad name.

His Con-Artist Actor in Training Period. (aka the Reagan Touch)

This film is something his Base may be able to relate to.... I mean, most of what they know about Trump is what they learned while he was firing people on the Apprentice.

Which is that he is a great business man! And therefore great for the economy. Albeit the only economy he is concerned about is the Billionaire Oligarch Economy, which obvious fact they disbelieve.

If it's on TV, though, maybe then they will finally grok that he is a Guinness World Book Quality Liar.

OK, naw.

15:12, lol

90 mins north of Tampa where I am is prolly only a bit of rain and 35 mph winds... the potential problem is tornadoes spun off by Uncle Milt. That's a totally different story!

You can bet that some in Tampa to Ft Myers drove an hour or two or three straight north to the major forests out there and will spend the night in their vehicles.

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Apropos of nothing while Waiting for Milton...

(@ around 10pm in oh, say Bradenton, just S of Tampa, unless there is a major wobble in what should be a Cat 3 by then)

I noticed a vid someone has posted this AM:

"Naples Beach Walking Tour
Florida 4K - posted 7 hours ago"

- acting like a complete imbecile.

Given his Base, that may be to his advantage.

As George Carlin said:

The Littlest Gov is doing all he can for Florida Hurricane Protection:

"Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signs a bill that strikes climate change from state law
May 16, 2024"

Ah, yes... unbiased political insight from the author of, "Lucky: How Joe Biden Barely Won the Presidency".

Thanks, Major B!

Hurricane Milton 2024 Live Stream - Live Webcams

"What was particularly striking, reported the Post, is that Trump grew more and more dishonest as his term progressed.

"Trump averaged about six [false] claims a day in his first year as president, 16 claims day in his second year, 22 claims day in this third year " and 39 claims a day in his final year," the Post wrote at the time.

"Put another way, it took him 27 months to reach 10,000 claims and an additional 14 months to reach 20,000. He then exceeded the 30,000 mark less than five months later."

from the link in #13

#3

OK, Laura... so I shoulda used 'wet' instead of 'ready', lol.

Musk wouldn't be able to post a 'joke' about a Harris assassination here.

Talk about a Trump assassination being a good thing was quashed, too.

People who whine about the Mod here are Lewzers... whom for the most part will never be a Mod anywhere.

ha!

The things Trumpy does to get Vlad to give him a Permit to build the Trump Moscow Hotel... are apparently without limit.

"This is it, folks," said Cathie Perkins, emergency management director in Pinellas County, which sits on the peninsula that forms Tampa Bay.

"Those of you who were punched during Hurricane Helene, this is going to be a knockout. You need to get out, and you need to get out now."

Milton has fluctuated in intensity as it approaches Florida but was a strong Category 4 hurricane at midday Wednesday and was expected to remain a major storm when its center hits land and then plow across the center of the state, forecasters said.

Tampa Bay, near the top of a long stretch of coastline that could be in the bull's-eye, has not taken a direct hit from a major hurricane in more than a century.'

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Move it or lose it!