The only time the âaw gee shucksâ conversational style works is when the person using it is highly intelligent. Worked for Twain/Clemens, Robert Frost, Carl SandburgâŚbut all it does is accentuate the ignorance of this idiot.
Lining the coast of california with desalinization plants would not in one hundred years produce enough salt to finally silence a slug that stupid.
Itâd get salt on it and start to shrivel up but then look around and tell people she donât believe in all that hokum about osmosis and such is the magnitude of her ignorance sheâd be preserved.
Wait. Sarah Palin just advocated a monumentally expensive government infrastructure program as a viable solution to something? And she wasnât torn apart by angry randroids?
This is the same one who made it a point of pride that Wasillaâs government does so little that she didnât have to soil her hands with statist âworkâ? Something doesnât compute here; and itâs not just the price per acre/foot of desalinating water by any current or prospective near future technology.
Sarah Palin: wants to be POTUS; doesnât understand âpotableââŚ
Trump / Palin 2016!
If the many worlds theory is true, then there are timelines where Palin became president. I feel profound pity and sympathy for anyone living in one of those timelines, assuming any of them are still alive.
Palin is regurgitating, in unrecognizably digested form, conservative talking points on the drought, which boil down to:
âIf we built reservoirs to capture the water coming down out of the mountains instead of wastefully putting it into rivers (to preserve wetlands and fish runs) there would be plenty of water.â
With desalination plants to fill in the cracks.
Translation: Unlimited growth, lush golf courses, and mansions in the desert with green lawns and water features, are more important than wetlands and fish.
I like how she has to throw in the falsehood that everyone is leaving California to support her dumb-ass point.
And of course all of Californiaâs major rivers already have reservoirs (which are well below capacity) so solving the drought by building more water storage makes about as much sense as solving a famine by building more pantries.
Only those where McCain died in office. Or, possibly, on the 2008 campaign trail.
Oh, very well put! Iâm going to borrow that simile for the next time I run into one of these âbuild more reservoirs!â people.
Ooooohhh, well sure, you just go throw facts at a perfectly good talking point.
Iâm glad youâve gone on record as opposing building pantries. Pro-hunger, pro-drought. I bet you think privatizing air is a bad idea too.
I am a little bit tired of conservatives blaming every crisis on liberals and environmentalists. Does it ever occur to them that if we didnât fuck up the environment in the first place, some of these crisises could have been avoided?
And now that we are in a crisis the only solution is to fuck the environment up even more? Sure letâs dam up every natural waterway. As long as the 2% get to keep thier country clubs and thier lawns green. Thatâs the only thing that matters anyway. Who cares that Pacific Ocean ecosystem is collapsing as long as Nestle can make a few million dollars more?
I dunno, the public really seemed to respond to that recent State-of-the-Union address in which she advised âDo not, my friends, become addicted to water, or it will take hold of you and you will resent its absence!â
They do that because they get a double bang for the buck. It takes the heat off of them and it discredits the people who propose solutions they dislike.
It isnât factual, it isnât fair, but it works. It buys the arseholes a few more years to live the good life and . . . well, their kids will be wealthy enough to live in places that arenât fucked over.
Iâm cool with it, as long as from now on the Palin-brood commit to only drinking cool, refreshing California ocean-water.
If stupid were a resource palin would be a diamond mine.
Iâm okay with them desalinating it. Theyâd just have to hand crank the dynamo to supply their own power to do it.
Wouldnât she be a stupid mine? With rich, nearly endless veins of moronite and idiocystos?
