Posted on 08/24/2017 2:08:50 PM PDT by ForYourChildren
President Trump is the best moon in the entire solar system. He has the greatest craters—beautiful, beautiful craters—and the softest lunar dust. The journalists who cover him don't have such soft dust. Sad!
You may never have thought of Donald Trump as the moon—a huge, heedless mass, forever doomed to repeat the same cycles day after day, year after year. OK, maybe you have. But either way, Trump apparently thinks of himself just that way. In the middle of a 56-minute Tweet squall this morning, the President retweeted this image, showing his smiling, full-color face slowly eclipsing a grim, black-and-white image of former President Barack Obama. The caption on the picture reads, "The best eclipse ever!"
It's never terribly easy to parse Presidential tweets. This one is even tougher than most, since there are so many different approaches you could take. There's indifference: Trump's retweet finger is a finely honed instrument, designed for speed, not discernment. He sees it, he likes it, he retweets it. The man is busy, after all.
There's exhaustion: The eclipse? The eclipse? We're now politicizing the eye-widening, soul-stirring, kumbaya-fest that was the total solar eclipse? Feel free to go lie down in a darkened room if you'd like. The front desk will call you in 2020.
Then, of course, there's the scientific—and this is perhaps one Trump should have thought about a little bit more than he apparently did. Eclipses happen because every now and then, in predictable but still primally unsettling cycles, a warm, bright, life-giving object is obscured by a dark, dead, insensible rock. The rock is tiny—400 times smaller than the big, bright thing. But it's also 400 times closer, so it appears much bigger than it is—its size and importance a mere illusion of proximity.
(Excerpt) Read more at time.com ...
LOL
Time spends a whole article trying to prove a meme is scientifically incorrect.
Dumb!
Do these cultist Progressives have absolutely no sense of humor, or is theirs merely “eclipsed” by their hate of Trump?
What a bunch of Maroons!
How many memes are scientific?
Is that the new criteria: all memes must be “scientific”?
Almost as stupid as spending a week trying to prove Trump didn't condemn racism.
BLEEP em if they can’t take a joke.
More like a ‘Political Eclipse’ event and probably caused by ahem, ‘Political Warming’ too!
It’s a fricking meme, you chowderheads.
Only a moron would spend time trying to parse a joke.
They took Tucker Carlson seriously when he joked that Trump looking at the sun without glasses was the single most impressive thing any President has ever done.
Dumass writer didnt even get the meme right
A sense of humor and appreciation of sarcasm requires an jntelligence lacking in many liberals
The word "parse" can mean different things. Here it means finding a plausible sounding excuse to condemn a tweet--and indeed it was not terribly easy, for he completely failed on the plausibility part.
Erma Gawd
Really ? All that nonsense over a joke?
I thought the tweet was funny. The fact that Time rants about it makes it even funnier.
Wonder if I could make a Time cover photo of Obama into a cat litter box liner. I think it might become a big seller to Viking kitty owners whose cats might want to “moon” and dump on Obama and Time simultaneously.
Now, Trump needs to retweet a dirty limerick. They’d never figure it out.
These jerks don’t get it. It was a spoof... a joke. No ordinary person looked at it from a sun/earth/ moon alignment perspective.
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