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panhandlinpaulBrendan O'Connor
4/15/16 12:36pm
She’s so right. It’s important parents tell their children the truth about this and how people are intentionally twisting the science for their financial benefit. And just like Sarah said, it is totally a fundraising tool for craven politicians who don’t give a fuck about the future and just what their special interest cronies want.

Sarah Palin has never been so right.
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  Tommy Coloradopanhandlinpaul
  4/15/16 12:42pm
  Why are you out of the grey? Is this satire or are you really just that ignorant?
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  panhandlinpaulTommy Colorado
  4/15/16 12:50pm
  I’m dead serious and sad that I have to explain it to you. Maybe that’s why you’re still in the grey?
  
  The controversy over climate change is being driven by those with an agenda. For example, the oil industry.
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Cam/ronBrendan O'Connor
4/15/16 12:17pm

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  Thaag TidestalkerCam/ron
  4/15/16 12:21pm
  Oh it is ON like RED DAWN.
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  BobbySeriousThaag Tidestalker
  4/15/16 12:28pm
  or...
  
  GIF
  
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rewodBrendan O'Connor
4/15/16 12:17pm
Any 8 year old with a baking soda volcano is more of a scientist than Ms. Palin.
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  Mount_Prionrewod
  4/15/16 12:23pm
  Paper mache is hard science. Once it dries.
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  GlitterbombFartsrewod
  4/15/16 12:27pm
  Maybe she’s born with it...
  Maybe it’s Crazy-lline.
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The Once and Future KingBrendan O'Connor
4/15/16 12:22pm
She’s expressing her thoughts via complete sentences made of words that make sense when used together. So that’s an improvement.
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  Manic OttiThe Once and Future King
  4/15/16 12:24pm
  “sense”
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  KatmanduThe Once and Future King
  4/15/16 12:29pm
  Trust me, it’s a fluke. She must’ve said it early in the day before she’d had a chance to have her morning “OJ”. If you know what I mean. Wink, wink.
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KatmanduBrendan O'Connor
4/15/16 12:22pm

I get stupider every time I listen to Sarah Palin. I can feel my brain cells dying in protest.
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  butcherbakertoiletrymakerKatmandu
  4/15/16 12:34pm
  Dave...my mind is going...I can feel it...I can feel it...
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  Dave butcherbakertoiletrymaker
  4/15/16 12:37pm
  Daisy. Daisy. How I love you dear...
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God isn't real. Grow up.Brendan O'Connor
4/15/16 12:18pm
If I see one more person confuse weather with climate, I will BLOW MY FUCKING BRAINS OUT.
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  rewodGod isn't real. Grow up.
  4/15/16 12:20pm
  I’d beseech you not to, but that bullshit happens so often, you’re probably already dead.
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  steinoGod isn't real. Grow up.
  4/15/16 12:31pm
  Denier logic: “If global warming is real, why do we still have winter, huh? Shouldn’t the globe be warm all year round?”
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bern10Brendan O'Connor
4/15/16 12:20pm
Yo, seriously: FUCK anyone who is a global warming denier. You’re probably over the age of 50 and going to be dead before my kids have to deal with the harsh realities of how badly “The Greatest Generation” screwed up this planet.

Global warming is one of the biggest reasons why I’d love to abolish the electoral college. Because maybe if we didn’t leave every election in the hands of shit kickers from Western Pennsylvania and Ohio, some of us “coastal elites” whose property will be underwater in 60 years might get our issues taken seriously.
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  Y0UT00-ahh-Fuck-Itbern10
  4/15/16 12:28pm
  “...probably over the age of 50 and going to be dead before my kids have to deal with the harsh realities...” “...shit kickers from Western Pennsylvania and Ohio...”
  
  Actually, you’d be surprised how many young people there are in more progressive areas/states who don’t give a shit, don’t recycle and don’t care just because they’re “not ever having kids”.
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  Katmandubern10
  4/15/16 12:32pm
  Let’s see, you managed to hit both ageist and classist there. Keep up the good work. Maybe next time you’ll hit the trifecta.
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Sons of Sam MaloneBrendan O'Connor
4/15/16 12:25pm
I’m still waiting for John McCain to go around and personally apologize to every American (and the English language) for unleashing her on American politics.
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  RobNYCSons of Sam Malone
  4/15/16 12:41pm
  Never going to happen. And if he gets a primary opponent again in Arizona he’ll go crawling back to her for an endorsement like he did in when he was last up for reelection.
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  Sluicer's ghostSons of Sam Malone
  4/15/16 1:10pm
  You are soooo underselling McCain's incompetence and stupidity.
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Quantum SuicideBrendan O'Connor
4/15/16 12:22pm
She’s not the scientist Bill Nye is, but she’s definitely proving herself to be as much a comedian as Tina Fey is. Sarah Palin is a joke.
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  GoodNaturedCadQuantum Suicide
  4/15/16 12:41pm
  A comedian makes jokes. Sarah Palin is a joke.
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  Quantum SuicideGoodNaturedCad
  4/15/16 12:49pm
  If she’s not a comedian, then why is it everything she says is so laughable? Hmm? Hmmmmm?
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lewis55number2Brendan O'Connor
4/15/16 12:28pm
Has she ever spoken in a complete, grammatically correct, non-run-on sentence? This is a serious question.

I know humans typically don’t speak with perfect grammar or in perfectly complete sentences. But as someone who has worked as a (local) journalist, I also know that most people speak in language that approximates grammatically correct complete sentences closely enough that it is not very hard to quote them as speaking in complete sentences just by adding a bit of punctuation to their quotes. (Slightly tweaking quotes to make them into readable sentences is standard practice in most journalism. NYT does it with every quote you see in the paper every day.)

But with Palin, you can’t do that. Its such a word salad — such a profound verbal onslaught of non-sequiturs within sentences — that I wouldn’t even know where to begin.

Like just look at this!?:

“It is being used as a fundraiser, it is being used as a partisan issue unfortunately so that parents can be first and foremost in their child’s life and influence them to trust science and believe in science and not leave it to the teachers.”

She seamlessly changes to a separate thought in the middle of a clause! That’s actually hard to do for most people.
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  cepalglewis55number2
  4/15/16 1:12pm
  As an academic effort, let me see if I can do it.
  
  “It is being used as a fundraiser. It is being used as a partisan issue, unfortunately.”
  
  LINE BREAK ACCIDENTALLY ATE AN INEXPLICABLE “SO THAT” HERE
  
  “Parents can be first and foremost in their child’s life and influence them to trust science, and believe in science, and not leave it to the teachers.”
  
  It can be done, but you gotta excise that conjunction.
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  Muscatocepalg
  4/15/16 1:28pm
  LINE BREAK ACCIDENTALLY ATE AN INEXPLICABLE “SO THAT” HERE
  “Parents can be first and foremost in their child’s life and influence them to trust science, and believe in science, and not leave it to the teachers.”
  It can be done, but you gotta excise that conjunction.
  
  But it still seems vaguely nonsensical, in that I genuinely don’t know whether or not it’s supposed to be a good - or a bad, or a whatever -thing for parents to want children to trust science rather than teachers. It seems mostly to me just a string of words she’s somehow heard in a vaguely related context before, regurgitated. I just want to shake her sometimes and scream “what do you mean???”
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