Discussion: Lindsey Graham Throws 'Not A Scientist' Line Back At GOP Climate Deniers

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Actually it’d be more like 97 out of 100 doctors… I’m surprised at ol’ Lindsey for being not so dumb for a change.

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The same guys are not engineers so they let their constituents continue to drive over rusted out bridges. They aren’t doctors but they presume to know better than doctors and their patients’ needs. Their ignorance extends to any conflict their dogma has with reality. It is not imaginative, but even the Gohmert level Einsteins have been able to repeat it well enough to get by.
And yeah even the room temperature IQ congress critters have bunches of staffers able to analyze technical publications and prepare executive summaries. All they have to do is ask. Good luck with that.

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LOL. You picked that photo because of how prissy he looks in it, didn’t you TPM? Don’t worry…we’ll keep it on the down-low…

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“Well I’m not a scientist,” Graham responded. “but here’s the problem
I’ve got with some people in my party: When you ask the scientists
what’s going on, why don’t you believe them? If I went to 10 doctors and
nine said, ‘Hey, you’re gonna die,’ and one says ‘You’re fine,’ why
would I believe the one guy?”

C’mon Lindsey, it’s called DENIAL. And it’s a core value of your party.
You cannot fix stupid when the fixee refuses to learn from the evidence before their eyes. It should not take rocket science to see that glaciers are melting, that the planet’s average temperature has risen steadily over the last 150 years which happens to coincide with the industrial revolution and the use of petroleum. And throw in a huge increase in the number of people on Earth.

YOU CAN’T FIX STUPID IF STUPID REFUSES TO LEARN.

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"Graham also offered some dry answers to Meyers’ prodding about Donald Trump, saying that he would make Republicans in Congress “step up to the plate” on immigration, where Obama has “failed miserably.”

He makes it sound like Obama is to blame for the GOP being so racist they wanted the entire country to fail so they could blame it on the black man. The GOP promised on day one that they would do NOTHING and that is what they did.

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Holy Moly.

I apparently agree with Lindsey Graham on something…

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"If I went to 10 doctors and nine said, ‘Hey, you’re gonna die,’ and one says ‘You’re fine,’ why would I believe the one guy?”

Self-reinforcing delusions are a helluva drug (and you thought I was going to go with “denial”)…

http://www.quora.com/What-is-a-self-reinforcing-delusion

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[rant on]
I’m fucking tired of the innuendo about Graham’s sexual orientation. I don’t give a rat’s ass who he sleeps with. How about picking on him for what he says or does in congress and in public? There’s plenty of ammo there (although not in this particular story).
So just shut it about his sexuality.
[rant off]

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Lindsey’s clock is stopped on “12-O-Fear”. He’s scared of everything, which makes him right twice a day on the climate change.

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Oh, yeah? What about SNOW, huh? If the earth is warming, how come Senator Inhofe was able to bring a snowball – a snowball – into the Senate chamber? Didn’t even melt! Huh? HUH? (sigh…)

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You are not a GYN either. Yet, you and your brethren are all up in women’s vag’s business.

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Good for Graham. Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.

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Not to worry, scientists have made a discovery about the sun’s “heartbeat” that they say indicates that Earth’s Northern Hemisphere could experience a deep freeze in 15 years.

Then again a new study out of the United Kingdom predicts the Earth is about to go through a major climatic shift that could mean decades of cooler temperatures and fewer hurricanes hitting the United States.

It’s getting harder and harder to decide which set of scientists to believe.

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Don’t worry your pretty little head over it. The adults will take care of things for you.

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Yup, they do:

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v521/n7553/full/nature14491.html

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Actually it’s:
97 say you are going to die.
2 say they are not sure and it requires “further study” for at LEAST 30 years.
1 says it’s all a grand conspiracy by Obama’s “Jack-Booted-Thugs” to confiscate your guns and bibles.

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He is desperate to stand out in a field of clowns. I have no doubt that if he was leading in the polls, he would be denying climate change with the worst of them.

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No worries! If you’re a Republican, Jeebus’ gonna’ take care of it!

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GOP back to Graham: The earth is heating because of rebound from the last ice age and because of natural cycles in solar output. Also, the earth stopped heating in 1998.

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