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Best thread EVER: USA Today fact-checked The Babylon Bee about Trump wanting a Space Navy for the Moon, but then the real U.S. Navy got involved and ROFL
Twitchy ^ | October 30, 2020 | Greg P.

Posted on 10/30/2020 7:05:06 PM PDT by McGruff

The Babylon Bee had this really funny satirical article up earlier this week joking that President Trump proposed a Space Navy now that NASA found water on the Moon:

With Moon Water Announcement, Trump Proposes Space Navy https://t.co/aG1at5Wp1F

— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) October 27, 2020

And then the morons at USA Today decided this needed a fact check, which led to an even funnier “retraction” from the Bee:

Sadly, we must retract this one. We'd like to thank @USATODAY for calling us out with this fact check. We will strive to do better. pic.twitter.com/5tk5ApSQjv

— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) October 30, 2020

(Excerpt) Read more at twitchy.com ...


TOPICS: Humor
KEYWORDS: babylonbee; factcheck; factcheckers; h2o; media; mediots; moon; moonwater; oops; spacenavy; usatoday; water
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To: OldGoatCPO

“the Navy built a barrier to stop Sailors from throwing Peso to $hit River Queens.”

That’s pretty selfish. Bet there was a woman behind that one.


61 posted on 10/30/2020 8:46:51 PM PDT by dsc (Do not pray for easy lives; pray to be stronger men.)
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To: dsc

Yeah I forgot about the chow line. Midrats will not be the same. :)


62 posted on 10/30/2020 8:49:56 PM PDT by Equine1952
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To: coaster123

Now you are talking about the Kamala space navy.


63 posted on 10/30/2020 8:52:47 PM PDT by Texas resident (Biden is China's bitch)
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To: rlmorel

“...Think Olongapo where the girls have antennae...”


and Space Herpes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MnJrenTkGGE

Its a real thing: Herpes Virus Reactivation in Astronauts During Spaceflight and Its Application on Earth

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmicb.2019.00016/full#h4


64 posted on 10/30/2020 8:55:00 PM PDT by LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget
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To: clintonh8r

The continuing stupidification of the media.

Or just plain ignorant foul ups that cannot succeed at anything else.


65 posted on 10/30/2020 8:55:58 PM PDT by Texas resident (Biden is China's bitch)
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To: LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget

LOL!

Space Herpes!!!!!!!


66 posted on 10/30/2020 8:57:09 PM PDT by rlmorel ("Leftism is the plaything of a society with too much time on its hands." - Candace Owens)
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To: McGruff

We sent them up the Bee!!! Ha Ha!


67 posted on 10/30/2020 8:57:12 PM PDT by griffin
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To: McGruff

Think of some of the lunar features:

Sea of Serenity
Ocean of Storms
Lake of Forgetfulness
Bay of Love (Sinus Amoris) - you could translate it “Gulf of Love”


68 posted on 10/30/2020 9:16:51 PM PDT by scrabblehack
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To: reg45

All those ranks are already in the terran Navy ...lol


69 posted on 10/30/2020 9:17:10 PM PDT by Robocop5626
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To: Equine1952
I will grab you some chow line in case you need to secure anything.

True story,76 Med cruise had some cadets aboard as well as some new crew. Over the PA came the directive to “Set the mail buoy watch!”. Head up to the 04 level and there he stands all tucked in for GQ, wearing a full life jacket, a gunfire support helmet over his sound powered phone and binoculars around his neck. People are trying to be surreptitious in taking his picture. He stands there scanning the surrounding ocean. Just when you think he is the most clueless fellow on history, over the PA comes”Now relieve the mail buoy watch!”. A few minutes later another fellow shows up dressed the same. He takes the binoculars and phones and starts looking. Ah we were young, and sailors!! I hear they trapped a sea bat under a box on the bow if you wanna see it...

70 posted on 10/30/2020 9:31:02 PM PDT by Robocop5626
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To: Texas resident

I served with one of those foul ups. Crencent wrenches with no lower jaw, half a pair of pliers, hammer with no handle, and a socket set with no sockets. Are you reading me. A sub at test depth can’t afford stupid.


71 posted on 10/30/2020 9:35:51 PM PDT by Equine1952
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To: Vermont Lt

https://twitter.com/ctdonath/status/1322238555008258053?s=21


72 posted on 10/30/2020 9:41:23 PM PDT by ctdonath2 (Interesting how those so interested in workERS are so disinterested in workING.)
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To: rlmorel
Thank you for your service. For many years, I was into the Civil War, traveled to many of the battlefields, and did a lot of historical research. I came across the music of a Civil War band called The 97th Regimental String Band. I have many of their CD's. One of them was titled "Saturday Night at Sea," so all the ballads were related to sea faring. This is their rendition of "What Do You Do With a Drunken Sailor."

97th Regimental String Band

73 posted on 10/30/2020 9:46:37 PM PDT by mass55th ("Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." ~~ John Wayne)
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To: Equine1952

“half a pair of pliers”

Wouldn’t that be a plier?


74 posted on 10/30/2020 10:20:14 PM PDT by o-n-money
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To: Equine1952

A ceiling aboard ship? I think not.


75 posted on 10/30/2020 10:37:59 PM PDT by chulaivn66 ("...government will follow its natural tendency to despotism.")
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To: chulaivn66

Tell that to the mail bouy watch while he’s standing there with a bucket of steam with a handful of monkey shit.


76 posted on 10/30/2020 10:46:28 PM PDT by Equine1952
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To: Disambiguator; The MAGA-Deplorian

This nation has by design been flooded with foreigners for at least a generation.


77 posted on 10/30/2020 10:58:47 PM PDT by A strike (FrontTowardEnemy)
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To: Robocop5626

“cadets” ?


78 posted on 10/30/2020 11:00:55 PM PDT by A strike (FrontTowardEnemy)
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To: Billthedrill

I was in the region but never made it to Olongapo, the stories I heard from the other jarheads that were there make me glad I didn’t go.


79 posted on 10/30/2020 11:14:29 PM PDT by Spacetrucker (George Washington didn't use his freedom of speech to defeat the British - HE SHOT THEM .. WITH GUNS)
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To: KarlInOhio

OOH-RAH!!!


80 posted on 10/30/2020 11:15:25 PM PDT by Spacetrucker (George Washington didn't use his freedom of speech to defeat the British - HE SHOT THEM .. WITH GUNS)
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