r/politics • u/Quirkie The Netherlands • Sep 13 '26
Possible Paywall White House Credits Trump With Stopping Hurricanes
https://www.thedailybeast.com/white-house-credits-trump-with-stopping-hurricanes/2.0k
u/NubileReptile Missouri Sep 13 '26
This country can never make fun of North Korea again.
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u/PabloPicasshooole California Sep 13 '26
Right. Our Fearless Leader cannot be shitting his diaper because he has no butthole
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u/Usual-Analysis-2990 Sep 13 '26
But he shits the most glorious shits filled with gold and jesus.
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u/leftrighttopdown Sep 13 '26
He shits rainbows and unicorns, i swear!
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u/Wesinator2000 Sep 13 '26
He has such a perfect diet that he absorbs every nutrient and converts it into pure raw energy, no poop.
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u/Importance-Dependent Sep 13 '26
He should be forced legally to get this tattoo or life in prison. All of maga would get the same tattoo. Win win
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u/tinylittlemarmoset Sep 13 '26
I dunno I’m pretty sure he’s got the greatest most luxurious* butthole the world has ever seen. His butthole is the biggest, big strong men come up to him with tears in their eyes saying “SIR, your butthole saved my life, when I was homeless I lived in your butthole for six years”. 100 million people live inside his butthole right now.
*im not really willing to try to imagine what “luxurious butthole” would mean, or at least not in a trump context.
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u/P1xelHunter78 Michigan Sep 14 '26
I’m sure there’s some men who could describe what a luxury butthole feels like. If Epstein were alive he might be able to attest to that as well.
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u/P1xelHunter78 Michigan Sep 14 '26
I think Jeffery destroyed it long ago. I saw the speedo picture and picked up the vibes coming off that. He’s a massive bottom.
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u/NubileReptile Missouri Sep 13 '26
Hasn't he explicitly said that anything good that happens he will take credit for and anything bad that happens he will blame on someone else?
I sometimes wonder if it qualifies as a con job if the con artist straight up tells the mark he's conning them and the mark still obediently hands over their money.
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u/Glassworth Sep 13 '26
If they don’t know, it’s a con, if they do know, it’s a cult. Pretty simple.
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u/PTS_Dreaming Ohio Sep 13 '26
No no, that bad weather is all Joe Biden's fault. He left us a mess with the weather, in terms of atmosphere.
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u/Trimyr America Sep 13 '26
No, that was because of Biden. But it'll all be under control in two weeks. You'll have best weather you've ever seen. The dumocrats want the storms to happen though so while you have to hide inside they can run around destroying the country. But if you're hiding, that means somebody's seeking. Remember that? Hide and seek? Not a lot of people knew about that game but it was fun. But me, I never wanted to hide. I'd get out and fight and win. Like weak Canada's tariffs. They want to be part of the US, love us so much, then, what's his name, Mike? Michael? comes back with things that will just hurt his country. As for countries, I really think Ireland should be united. You know I had a great meeting with their president, and he agreed that windmills are terrible. They're bad for the environment. They cause all sorts of problems. So we'll be getting rid of those. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER
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u/Hey_cool_username Sep 13 '26
When bad weather affects red states it’s because the woke, dem. scientists (or Jews) are controlling it. If blue states get hit it’s because god hates gay people.
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u/FinalEdit Sep 13 '26
Don't want to be that guy but it was Kim Jon Il and that rumour was because someone interviewed the groundsman of a DPRK golf course and it was printed as gospel. It wasn't part of the "lore" of North Korea.
As much as the DPRK is bizarre, and cultist in many ways, its always good to strive for accuracy, and correct common misconceptions. Sorry for possibly deflating your point somewhat, its absolutely not my intention to distract from your reasonable view.
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u/Sad-Structure2364 Colorado Sep 13 '26
Reminds me of an episode of 20/20, or a similar show. It was about an optician going to NK and removing cataracts from hundreds of people. After the procedure they all began to thank dear leader for curing their vision, and didn’t even acknowledge the doctor, lol
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u/GibbyG1100 Sep 13 '26
In their defence, if they hadnt done that, they would probably be killed or dropped in a mine somewhere
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u/Sad-Structure2364 Colorado Sep 13 '26
You are correct there. When you watch the video they all seem to try and “one up” the previous person in terms of praise for dear leader. Definitely performative to keep themselves alive, totally understandable
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u/OwnStruggle9260 Sep 13 '26
There's a Tim Minchin song called "thank you god Which is very much your story. https://youtu.be/IZeWPScnolo?si=WwWfxHBwjoJz62Ab
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u/Thunderfoot_66 Sep 13 '26
Never heard that song before, just looked up the lyrics. Holy shit, that is great! Thanks for posting that.
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u/OwnStruggle9260 Sep 13 '26
Tim Minchin has some absolutely underated songs. Most people only know his songs from the Matilda musical... But I'm also a Brit so we get a lot of the cool Aussies over here.
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u/MirthandMystery Sep 13 '26
Insanely clever and profound lyrics. Wish the evangelicals and holier than thous all had a listen.
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u/Surefif District Of Columbia Sep 13 '26
I remember that! Some of them were so thankful that they were finally able to see the image of dear leader hanging on their wall, it was crazy.
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u/ThatOldEngineerGuy Sep 13 '26
Sure would be dumb to make fun of the only ally well have left
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u/FluffyPantsMcGee Sep 13 '26
Just waiting to hear about the mountain Trump was born on, and how many cranes are going to need to carry his fat corpse back when he’s done in life?
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u/midwest_riverman Sep 13 '26
I used to see news clips and thing that the propaganda from North Korea was an odd translational error where the language being used really totally make sense. Not that it wasn’t propaganda but that it was an odd linguistic thing that made it seem even more insane. Then Trump happened. You watch Fox News now and they actually sometime talk about his golf game being an example of his “incredible work ethic”
There’s an interview recently in Fox where they start talking about his perfectionist streak that shows even when he goes golfing “he doesn’t just golf he gets out of the cart he moves the steak lines around he’s always working always thinking”. It literally comes across as insane word salad if you don’t just listen but read a transcript of it. Just like North Korea.
I was wrong the whole time. There isn’t a language barrier that made all
That propaganda make less sense. Those people parroting these talking points are just mentally ill and not the smartest.3
u/AcanthisittaNo6653 New Hampshire Sep 13 '26
Oh no. We get to make fun of both US and DPRK the same way.
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u/G-Unit11111 California Sep 13 '26
We're somehow worse than North Korea now, and I didn't think that was possible.
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u/NeilZod Sep 13 '26
The crazy thing is: El Niño is muting the Atlantic hurricane season (Although it is making a mess of the Pacific). This El Niño seems to be amplified by climate change. Trump is helping climate change in many ways (his war in Iran is ramping up coal use in many areas). In a very strange (and nonetheless damaging) way, Trump is responsible for this Atlantic hurricane season.
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u/Viking_Leaf87 Sep 13 '26
That's just the MAGA modus operandi. Anything that goes wrong can't be Trump's fault, but anything that doesn't go wrong is all thanks to him. You deserve 6 dollar diesel if you still think there's even a modicum of honesty coming out of Washington.
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u/supercyberlurker Sep 13 '26
That's Republicanism in a nutshell
Everything good is because of Trumps magic powers.
Everything bad is because of Obama.. no wait Biden!
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u/HighVulgarian Sep 13 '26
That’s also how Christians are groomed to think
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u/TwistedRichie Oregon Sep 13 '26
Just like everything good is attributed to God and everything bad is attributed to Satan.
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u/ForMoreYears Canada Sep 13 '26
This is literally an old Russian pre-Communist trope called "Good Tsar, bad Boyars" wherein everything good is attributed to the Tsar, and anything bad is attributed to him receiving bad advice from his advisors aka Boyars.
America has gone full Russia.
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u/Icy-Lobster-203 Sep 13 '26
It's funnier with MAGA because their Trump mythology requires them to also believe that Trump only hires the best people and can never make a mistake.
So, if he is getting bad advice, wouldn't that mean he made a mistake and hired bad people?
They are blind to that contradiction.
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u/RedLanternScythe Indiana Sep 13 '26
“Well, I think if they win, I should get all the credit. And if they lose, I should not be blamed at all."
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u/grungegoth Sep 13 '26
$7. Mark my words, it's coming. the red sea is shut now.
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u/Viking_Leaf87 Sep 13 '26
However much it takes to get people to think twice about voting Republican.
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u/SzmFTW Sep 13 '26
I mean, you’ve also just described Christianity. Everything bad is the devil, everything good is god answering your prayers, even if it’s bad for someone else.
You never see the Cleveland Browns thanking god for another 3-13 season..,
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u/khamike Sep 13 '26
Everyone prays that their team will win. They never consider that means the other side is praying they'll lose.
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u/_sarten Sep 13 '26
he must have blocked it with a sharpie
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u/Swamp_Dwarf-021 Sep 13 '26
Uhhh, he obviously nuked 'em!
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u/B-Z_B-S Massachusetts Sep 13 '26
Fun Fact: A nuke has the energy to stop a hurricane, for about a single second. Except it wouldn't have the directional force, and then you'd get a superheated, radioactive hurricane.
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u/Sustainable_Scotian Sep 13 '26
At this point, ill take it. Just make sure its a direct hit over my location
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u/Sustainable_Scotian Sep 13 '26
I thought the democrats had the weather machine?
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u/tangerinelion Sep 13 '26
Well you see it transferred to Trump when he won so he stopped the hurricanes. Duh.
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u/cTreK-421 Sep 13 '26
But somehow when the weather is bad again then obviously the deep state took it back. Duh.
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u/backpackwayne Sep 13 '26
"there is no evidence Trump has anything to do with the Atlantic’s unusually quiet hurricane season."
Could you stop this softballing horrible crap-fest? It's total bull shit! Not lack of evidence.
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u/atriaventrica Sep 13 '26
It's daily beast. They shit on him religiously. Guaranteed that's a tongue in cheek mocking line.
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u/hobbykitjr Pennsylvania Sep 14 '26 edited Sep 14 '26
Ummm it's El nino right??
Someone on Reddit was explaining El nino like 6 months ago and they said expect a quiet hurricane season for the Atlantic and more storms in Pacific (among other things)
I've repeated that to a few people (who were going on a cruise etc) and we Googled it to confirm.. why is it a mystery?
Next year's hurricane season should be extra bad in theory
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u/DeterminedThrowaway Sep 13 '26
"No evidence" is the same thing as saying "total bullshit" to educated people
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u/Ryogathelost Florida Sep 13 '26
It's a shame, but contemporary journalism needs to remind readers intermittently what is and is not real, lest they become lost in the zero-visibility BS conditions.
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u/Hootbag Maryland Sep 13 '26
It's clearly a victory for Hegseth and the T-Force over Cobra and their Weather Dominator. /s
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u/tackleboxjohnson Sep 13 '26
I mean, his stance on increasing fossil fuel consumption doesn’t help the global warming induced super el nino which stymied atlantic hurricane formation this summer, but it’s not like he’s directly responsible and he definitely doesn’t hold that environmental stance because of his desire for hurricanes not to hit Florida
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u/darkstar3333 Sep 13 '26
Get ready for absolute hurricane destruction any time now.
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u/Machiavvelli3060 Sep 13 '26
It's a shame he can't stop:
- school shootings,
- nonexistent voter fraud,
- immigrants taking jobs Americans refuse to do,
- wasteful spending,
- inflation,
- dead senators collecting a paycheck, or
- war with Iran.
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u/biloxiboi Sep 13 '26
Jesus Christ this country is in trouble.
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u/fryguy5134 Sep 13 '26
It has been spiraling the drain for a long time. Time to flush that turd and reform our Constitution with a few amendments to prevent this dumb shit from happening again. If we don't, and very soon, we are surely doomed.
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u/biloxiboi Sep 13 '26
I honestly believe we’re past that point. Guess I’m kinda grateful I don’t have offspring that has to grow up feeling the repercussions of this mess. I think the days of the “good ole USA” are gone.
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u/Orygregs Sep 13 '26 edited Sep 13 '26
No hurricanes have formed in the North Atlantic Ocean so far this year.
Isn't reduced hurricane activity in the Atlantic a known pattern of El Nino weather systems?
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u/Purify5 Sep 13 '26
Yes, there were six hurricanes in the Pacific. But they tend to make landfall in Mexico and Central America. Although that one hit Hawaii.
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u/tackleboxjohnson Sep 13 '26
Yep. We’re in uncharted territory with the strength of this el nino though, and currently this year holds the record for latest formation of a hurricane in the atlantic (a record which is being broken daily since Sept. 11th) because it’s the first time we haven’t recorded one. It’s quite possible that one doesn’t form this hurricane season.
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u/ZhaozhouCongshen Sep 13 '26
Season is not over yet.
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u/wanderingpeddlar Sep 13 '26
As long as we are being affected by this massive El nino the Atlantic is going to be quiet. Now with water temps the way they are If the El nino does not come back next year and the water is as hot as it is now we will be deep in the shit.
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u/ZhaozhouCongshen Sep 13 '26
Last time I talked shit about hurricane season being over in September, I lost power for 2 weeks from an October hurricane.
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u/wanderingpeddlar Sep 13 '26
LOL not talking shit just science, and if a Hurricane can cross an entire continent to come get me the US will be in ruins and Canadians will be moving north till the gulf of Mexico cools down.
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u/ZhaozhouCongshen Sep 13 '26
I understand El Nino and La Nina
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u/wanderingpeddlar Sep 13 '26
It never occurred to me that you didn't.
I am sitting here well away from the strike zones tracking water temperatures and wondering how bad next year is going to be.
Its like watching a train heading at a bus and not being able to look away.
With FEMA gutted and its budget slashed a record hurricane season could look like NC after the last one but its the entire east coast and it keeps happening all season long.
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u/DeaconFrost9 Sep 13 '26
Am I now dumber for reading this?
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u/JustletmeBee2026 Sep 13 '26
Depends. Are you now a Republican? If yes, you’re technically “developmentally handicapped”.
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u/No_hero_here Sep 13 '26
The fuck he did. I live in Hawaii and we just got rocked by two hurricanes.
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u/wanderingpeddlar Sep 13 '26
You guys are getting hit because of the El Nino. And your not out of the shooting gallery yet.
There are two more storms warming up in the Pacific right now. One has just became a named storm.
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u/No_hero_here Sep 13 '26
If Trump would just deport the El Niño we could be free of this. /s
Oh and I’m acutely aware of what’s brewing out there.
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u/Hubert_J_Cumberdale Hawaii Sep 13 '26
Norbert is gonna weaken before it gets here. We're finally gonna get a short break to recover.
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u/wanderingpeddlar Sep 13 '26
Good I hope they both veer off into the pacific and your done for the year
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u/peskyghost Sep 13 '26
If you’re gonna post these articles can you pin At least a summary of the article on Reddit for those who get paywalled
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u/Obidoobie Sep 13 '26
These mother fuckers are so dumb man. I swear they’re just making shit up because they know their constituents are just as fucking stupid and they’ll believe it.
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u/cwm9 Hawaii Sep 13 '26
Hawaii, having suffered two already, would like to remind everyone about El Nino.
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u/JerHat Michigan Sep 13 '26
Cool, so a hurricane is on the way.
September and October are like the peak hurricane season months, aren’t they?
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u/Organic_Rough4433 Sep 13 '26
Wait a second. I didnt know trump was Jewish? LOL
Its a joke. Specifically from protect our parks and how they riff that the jews control the weather.
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u/CountOnBeingAwesome America Sep 13 '26
I'm tired of this bafononery. Trump needs to be removed and every god damn idiot that enables him, down to the people serving them coffee, needs to be help accountable.
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u/gitree22 Sep 13 '26
Then he needs to get to work on all the tornados and floods that have plagued the entire country all summer
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u/GibletofNH Sep 13 '26
What a fragile ego he has. I am so sick of this man, why is America held hostage by an utter moron stooge?
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u/Austin_Peep_9396 Sep 13 '26
It’s the Democrats. Only the Democrats can control the weather, remember?
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u/ObjectiveGlittering California Sep 13 '26
Back in May, the NOAA predicted a tame hurricane season.
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u/BarkerBarkhan Sep 13 '26
"The only way to stop a bad guy with a weather machine is a good guy with a weather machine." - MTG, probably, 2022
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u/boofin19 America Sep 13 '26
Isn’t it a known fact when there’s a strong El Niño there’s a particularly weak Atlantic hurricane season(s)?
Edit to add: I think I learned this in 7th or 8th grade science nearly 25 years ago and for some reason retained that info….
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u/1973Triumph Sep 13 '26
As Trump stated he was a gift from God. So he can control the weather.
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u/jet_fueled_genius Sep 13 '26
How have we accepted this kind of trolling from our government as normal
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u/Fishfindr Sep 13 '26
So Trump credits Trump for stopping something that no one can control. Got it, thanks Daily Beast.
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u/Former-Case6484 Sep 13 '26
Irma hit on Sept. 17th if I remember correctly. Theres still possibilities.
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u/PsyDragon Sep 13 '26
I mean the amount of hot air he expels from both ends likely does have a massive atmospheric effect.
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u/BaconISgoodSOGOOD Sep 13 '26
Something the GOP can platform on - less hurricanes under a DJT administration! They must have located and disabled that democratically owned hurricane maker.
Too good to be true!
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u/ProperBar4339 Sep 13 '26
I mean, he’s definitely trying to make climate change as bad as possible.
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u/genericreddituser147 Sep 14 '26
Which, in a roundabout way, does kind of make him responsible for the oddly quiet hurricane season on this side. And the historically active season on the Pacific.
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u/Altruistic_Zombie461 Sep 14 '26
Aside from the ridiculous notion that Trump can stop hurricanes, how will he explain why he didn't stop the next big one that will inevitably level some part of a red state?
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u/ElectricPotatoStar Sep 13 '26
Is this is true and they are even half-serious, this is some supreme-leader Kim Jong cult shit right there.
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u/Embarrassed_Neat1924 Sep 13 '26
They’ve run out of crazy crap to say. Kristi “Ice Barbie” Noem (Gnome) already thanked him for no Hurricanes last year.
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u/2stinkynugget Sep 13 '26
We actually need hurricane rains for our agriculture. We don't need destructive storms, but we desperately need the hurricane rain.
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u/girlnamedtom Washington Sep 13 '26
White House at this point is synonymous with trump. So, yeah, he’s always taking credit where credit is never due. fdt
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u/RiseDelicious3556 Sep 13 '26
Can he cure leprosy?? I've got this boil on my ass I'd like to show him--up close
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u/amoshart Sep 13 '26
How long before he raises Lazarus from the dead?
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u/EdwardOfGreene Illinois Sep 13 '26
First Lazarus will need to die. They'll probably lock him in an ICE camp until he does.
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u/NeutralBias Hawaii Sep 13 '26
“This is also the first time since at least 1941 that this has happened. Year-to-date ACE is lowest since 1941 as well. If we get through September 21st without any hurricane formations, it will be the first time since 1914 (there were none that season),” he continued. “Can we get there? Nine days to go. The NHC thinks we will notch at least seven more. The race is on.”
In response, the White House wrote: “Thank you, President Trump!”
Oh wow, so hurricanes Lala and Lowell were just all in our heads, and all the damage we sustained from them really came from a Godzilla attack? Amazing!
God what a giant middle finger to everyone in Hawaii.
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u/mike0sd America Sep 13 '26
It would be great if we could just make fun of this cult, we can, but also they are doing real damage to the world so we can't just sit back and laugh. But holy shit is it hilariously embarrassing to be a Republican these days. Cucked into supporting a pedophile and they have to act like they've never seen the evidence!
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u/gpgarrett Sep 13 '26
They’ve done this before. More of their flood the zone with news (any news) to distract from real issues.
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u/1iIiii11IIiI1i1i11iI Sep 13 '26
With the power of Magic Marker! It's not allowed to call itself that without containing magical powers, such as stopping hurricanes.
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u/silent-sight Sep 13 '26
Will they also blame him when extreme weather strikes out the west coast this winter and next summer?
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u/adamttaylor Sep 13 '26
I mean, given all the hot air that he spews out, I'm sure that it has to do something, right?
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u/Pure_evil1979 Sep 13 '26
He didn't stop the act of nature. He just used an executive order to rename them so that we never have a "hurricane" again
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u/altaleft Sep 13 '26
it rained today so i didn’t have to water my lawn. where do i send my thank you letter?
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u/jesus_fatberg Sep 13 '26
He stopped Hurricanes in the Gulf of Mexico by changing it to Gulf of America. Ingenious…
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u/wy1dsta1yn Sep 13 '26
Isn’t this just because we are in an El Niño period. Not that I expect the chucklefucks at the White House to know that. But still, there are usually reasons for this sort of thing but sure, senile orange guy controls the weather I guess. We are beyond cooked
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u/MorbotheDiddlyDo Sep 13 '26
So we CAN control the weather.
Which if we can control the weather why wouldn't we make sure its peak conditions for wind energy in one spot using our weather control?
Checkmate athiests.
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u/manticore16 New York Sep 14 '26
I'm waiting for "He eats the sun and drinks the skies, and they both go with him when he dies" from Community.
Though I'd take Señor Chang's reign over this.
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u/Marmar79 Sep 13 '26
I love to think that this is just some time that we will all look back at and laugh about but the reality this will likely be US history going forward unless someone within grows a fuckin spine and quick.
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