Donald Trump Stares into Solar Eclipse WITHOUT Safety Glasses, While Aides Shout "DON'T LOOK!"

[Thomas Sr.]

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http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-solar-eclipse-photo-stares-without-glasses-video-white-house-balcony-dont-look-aides-a7905771.html

*Donald Trump Stares into Solar Eclipse Without Safety Glasses, While Aides Shout 'Don't Look!'*

Experts say that looking at a solar eclipse without special eyeglasses could cause serious eye damage
by Alexandra Wilts
Tuesday, 22 August 2017

WASHINGTON DC -- Donald Trump has been caught looking at the solar eclipse without safety glasses, despite all expert advice saying this practice is dangerous.

“Looking directly at the sun is unsafe except during the brief total phase of a solar eclipse (“totality”), when the moon entirely blocks the sun’s bright face, which will happen only within the narrow path of totality,” NASA wrote on a webpage discussing how to view the 2017 solar eclipse safely.

“The only safe way to look directly at the uneclipsed or partially eclipsed sun is through special-purpose solar filters, such as ‘eclipse glasses’ or hand-held solar viewers.”

But this didn't stop the President, who has a reported tendency to act against the advice of his aides, from sneaking a peak after taking off his protective glasses. He squinted as he briefly looked up at the sun.

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[VIDEO]

NBC News ✔ ‎@NBCNews

President Trump sneaks a peek at the #SolarEclipse2017 after taking off his protective glasses

3:00 PM - Aug 21, 2017
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Mr Trump watched the rare spectacle from the Blue Room Balcony at the White House – hundreds of miles away from the eclipse’s path of totality – next to his wife Melania and son Barron.

According to the White House pool report, the President initially gesticulated to a crowd of administration staffers gathered below the balcony and pointed to the sky. As he did so, one of the White House aides standing beneath balcony shouted “don't look!”

Mr Trump’s apparent failure to heed advice against looking at the sun was immediately mocked on Twitter.

“Thought warnings about Sun were fake news...,” wrote Twitter user Devin Duke.

Tricia Fairness‏ joked, “‘My eyes are the best. I have the best eyes. Nobody can see the eclipse like me. Believe me.’ - Trump on Eclipse 2017.”
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...AND ALSO TODAY...

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https://weather.com/news/climate/news/trump-disbands-climate-advisory-committee

*Trump Disbands Climate Change Advisory Committee*
August 21, 2017
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With Trump, our America has an president who is an Anti-Science IDIOT.



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[DoD]

"Thomas Sr." <thomas.sw...@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:73ee879c-f822-44d8...@googlegroups.com...

Snip bullshit...

> With Trump, our America has an president who is an Anti-Science IDIOT.

With homo hummel, alt.fan.rush-limbaugh has a truth impaired IDIOT.... It is
SOOOO easy to show just how much
of a despicable hate-filled, halfwitted homo you are hummel...

https://twitter.com/Scavino45/status/899742649015468032

http://cdn.thegatewaypundit.com/wp-content/uploads/DHxkHPtXYAEDeXy.jpg

[NoBody]

On Mon, 21 Aug 2017 20:18:57 -0700 (PDT), "Thomas Sr."
<thomas.sw...@gmail.com> wrote:

>
>-----------
>http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-solar-eclipse-photo-stares-without-glasses-video-white-house-balcony-dont-look-aides-a7905771.html
>
>*Donald Trump Stares into Solar Eclipse Without Safety Glasses, While Aides Shout 'Don't Look!'*
>
>Experts say that looking at a solar eclipse without special eyeglasses could cause serious eye damage
>by Alexandra Wilts
>Tuesday, 22 August 2017
>
>WASHINGTON DC -- Donald Trump has been caught looking at the solar eclipse without safety glasses, despite all expert advice saying this practice is dangerous.
>
>“Looking directly at the sun is unsafe except during the brief total phase of a solar eclipse (“totality”), when the moon entirely blocks the sun’s bright face, which will happen only within the narrow path of totality,” NASA wrote on a webpage discussing how to view the 2017 solar eclipse safely.
>
>“The only safe way to look directly at the uneclipsed or partially eclipsed sun is through special-purpose solar filters, such as ‘eclipse glasses’ or hand-held solar viewers.”
>
>But this didn't stop the President, who has a reported tendency to act against the advice of his aides, from sneaking a peak after taking off his protective glasses. He squinted as he briefly looked up at the sun.

Is there a person alive who has not looked at the sun for a second or
two at some point in their lives. The blink, look away reflex kicks
in almost immediately. He looked (at most) for half a second. i
worry far more about all the people who put their trust into the
so-called "eclipse glasses" that no one certified as being safe.

[#BeamMeUpScotty]

On 08/22/2017 07:47 AM, NoBody wrote:
> On Mon, 21 Aug 2017 20:18:57 -0700 (PDT), "Thomas Sr."
> <thomas.sw...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> -----------
>> http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-solar-eclipse-photo-stares-without-glasses-video-white-house-balcony-dont-look-aides-a7905771.html
>>
>> *Donald Trump Stares into Solar Eclipse Without Safety Glasses, While Aides Shout 'Don't Look!'*
>>
>> Experts say that looking at a solar eclipse without special eyeglasses could cause serious eye damage
>> by Alexandra Wilts
>> Tuesday, 22 August 2017
>>
>> WASHINGTON DC -- Donald Trump has been caught looking at the solar eclipse without safety glasses, despite all expert advice saying this practice is dangerous.
>>
>> “Looking directly at the sun is unsafe except during the brief total phase of a solar eclipse (“totality”), when the moon entirely blocks the sun’s bright face, which will happen only within the narrow path of totality,” NASA wrote on a webpage discussing how to view the 2017 solar eclipse safely.
>>
>> “The only safe way to look directly at the uneclipsed or partially eclipsed sun is through special-purpose solar filters, such as ‘eclipse glasses’ or hand-held solar viewers.”
>>
>> But this didn't stop the President, who has a reported tendency to act against the advice of his aides, from sneaking a peak after taking off his protective glasses. He squinted as he briefly looked up at the sun.
> Is there a person alive who has not looked at the sun for a second or
> two at some point in their lives.

Streets that run east/west have you driving into the sun morning and
night.....



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That's Karma

[First-Post]

Hummel's nonsense has been debunked nearly as fast as it was put out
there on other social media such as twitter.

Just how desperate are sad little washed up trolls like Tom that the
best criticism they can come up with is that the pres glanced up at
the sun for a split second before putting on the eclipse glasses that
he had in his hand?

Next up, Left goes crazy over which direction the president wipes his
own ass. Calls it a threat to national security.

[DoD]

"First-Post" <ProgressivesW...@invalid.org> wrote in message
news:7mcopct6a4f1adnno...@4ax.com...

People like homo hummel have no self respect... Liars never do...

[First-Post]

On Tue, 22 Aug 2017 13:22:49 -0500, "DoD" <danski...@gmail.com>
wrote:

There are thousands just like him on Twitter and Facebook.
Stupid little minions with hardly any followers, no bio line and not
even an avatar that swarm threads and make idiotic and vitriolic
comments.
They're considered to be simply jokes by nearly every legitimate
"tweeter" trying to have a discussion.
Since the "looking into the sun" didn't get any traction at all, they
have now moved on to ranting about the president's son, Barron, for
not wearing a suit at the event and just dressing like a kid.
That ain't doing so well for them either.

[DoD]

"First-Post" <ProgressivesW...@invalid.org> wrote in message

news:vv0ppc9fsk2lojjif...@4ax.com...

If he wore a suit, that wouldn't be correct either, they would have accused
of
being rich and flashy or something along those lines.

[Thomas Sr.]

On Tuesday, August 22, 2017 at 9:40:02 AM UTC-4, First-Post wrote:
> Just how desperate are sad little washed up trolls like Tom that the
> best criticism they can come up with is that the pres glanced up at
> the sun for a split second before putting on the eclipse glasses that
> he had in his hand?

If desperate, ignorant, and just dumbass STUPID, far-right wing Ko0Ks such as yourself, Postie, think that even looking directly at the sun for even a very short time with your naked eyes does not cause harm to your eyes, then I suspect someday there will be a lot of you wing-nuts wandering around using white canes with red tips.

IF NOTHING ELSE, the president of the United States is suppose to sent an *example* for the American people. A very great many medical doctors, scientist, and NASA itself have been warning people for weeks NOT to look at the sun during the eclipse without special projection. The fact the idiotic Trump comes out on a balcony and the first thing he does is looks up at the naked sun and point at it shows how fucking CLUELESS this man-baby is.

Obama was a smoker, but he DID NOT smoke it public for others to see. He also tried repeatedly to quit.

Between Trump's STUPID and SHAMELESSNESS he leaves a stain with almost everything he does and everywhere he goes.


You are fucking DUMB for trying to defend Trump for being DUMB, Postie.


You extremist far-right nutjobs are BIGLY SAD.

. . .

[Thomas Sr.]

I am not at all surprise other reasonable people Got It -- while you dumbass Trump-zombies still DO NOT.

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https://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2017/08/of-course-trump-stared-directly-into-the-eclipse.html

*Of Course Trump Stared Directly Into the Eclipse*

Everything's eventual
by Jason Rhode
August 22, 2017

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Trump Looks At Sun During Full Solar Eclipse Despite Shouted Warning

Esme Cribb
12:37 PM - 21 Aug 2017
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Jason Miller ✔ ‎@longwall26

And inevitably.

3:37 PM - Aug 21, 2017
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Readers,

I’m Jason Rhode. You may know me from Paste, the online magazine about real-world fun. Politics is the subject I write about. Hi. How are your eyes? Not blinded, I hope. Ha ha ha, but seriously, if you looked at the eclipse today, seek medical attention. There’s no joking around about nature’s curses.

I write you today to make a single argument. This reality extending all around us? It is clearly a simulation. No human being could dare Darwin this flagrantly. Did Trump stare into the eye-murdering eclipse? Was he making a point about his strength? My God, does it matter? Where are we? How did we get here? Why is there so little public drinking in these plague years?

I kid. No, wait, I don’t. This image boggles the mind, beyond the dreams of Sixties acid. Trump stared at the blinding sun as if it was a new fire.

Folks. Donald Trump [https://www.pastemagazine.com/tag/Donald+Trump] stared at the sun during an eclipse, and what else can we say about it? I have no doubt there will soon be an avalanche of pieces titled “Donald Trump stared into the Sun, triggering libs.” The American alt-right will spend a full week blinding themselves, all in an effort to show how little they care for polite society.

Here’s the first three paragraphs from the TPM story [https://www.pastemagazine.com/tag/Donald+Trump]:

"President Donald Trump’s administration on Monday took a moment in the afternoon to observe the first total solar eclipse to pass over the United States from one coast to the other since 1918.

"White House pool reporter Ted Mann, from the Wall Street Journal, tweeted updates from the nation’s capital, which was not in the path of totality and saw a partial solar eclipse that peaked at 2:42 p.m ET.

"Scientists warned [https://www.livescience.com/20433-solar-eclipse-blind.html] during the lead-up to the eclipse that looking directly at the sun during the phenomenon could result in permanent eye damage, but according to Mann, Trump looked at the sun despite a shouted warning."

To be clear: they had special NASA glasses at the White House. Everyone else had them. Trump’s son, Barron, did not stare into the retina-shredding eye of heaven. His father -- the President -- did that.

When I was a child, I learned about how eclipses can blind you. That was year one of public schooling, right after the lessons about how to stop fire (hint: rolling) and taking bites out of crime. I’ve known that to not stare at eclipses longer than I’ve known my Dad’s middle name. Trump stared at an eclipse.

It turns out the joke is on all of us, just as the sun’s radiation is. Trump’s policy is to debase the coinage of language, of reality. After Trump, there will be no high, no low, no good, nor bad, nor thinking to make any such distinctions. Trump is not a mere President. He’s a cultural wizard. Donald crashes our human concepts in the same way he smashed through our ideas of what was politically possible. Before Trump, there were rules in human society: “do this” and “Dear Lord, don’t do this.”

Our Donald is as beyond them as the American public is beyond Myspace. A common image after Charlottesville was one of the American public sailing into uncharted waters. But Trump is farther out now in the game of reality, not politics. I don’t know what’s up or down anymore—none of us do -- and we have Trump to thank for this. He has set us free of the old ways. Every day can and will be Purge now. I have realized man’s laws and nature’s rules -- SUCH AS NOT STARING DIRECTLY AT THE GODDAMN SUN -- ARE FOR HATERS AND LOSERS.

His supporters are correct. Trump really is a transformational president. He is not cut from the same cloth as Bush or any other conservative executive of the last fifty years. He is, as they say, one of a kind. Just not in the way they think.

Trump practically called on the youth of the world to stare into the retina-killer without any hesitation.

Horseshoe theory is not true in politics, but it is verifiable in many human domains. The very rich and the very poor are alike in that they dress as they want and neither seem to have real jobs. At some level of drunkenness, the chemical line between being poisoned and sloshed is blurred into nonexistence. There is a tier of hardcore drug abuse where it no longer matters whether the user is actually brave or just too oblivious to make wise decisions.

And at some level of Ralph Wiggum-ness, the distinction between too dull to live, and too dull to outwit, ceases to exist. Well, we have arrived here at last. The Framers and fiction writers imagined it would take an Nietzschean overman to knock the props out from under America. They figured the destroyer of the American republic would be a Julius Caesar-type. In other words, a charismatic authoritarian like TV’s 'Coach', or some whiskey-blooded Machiavelli who winked at the camera.

To end American government, you’d just need to stop democratic government from being effective. Easily done. But stopping American culture is a thornier task. To end American culture -- really shut the door on it -- you’d need to do the following:

You’d have to prove that none of our practices and goals amounted to anything: that Horatio Alger was wrong, that meritocracy was a penny-whistle sham, that democracy was disproven, that the Boy Scouts would cheer the culture war, that the statesmen of legend had all been sharp-toothed attorneys with state machines behind them. To disprove American culture, you would have to create a situation where the saying “In this country, anyone could grow up to be President, even you” was proven nightmarishly wrong.

It would take a billionaire oaf, who was beyond the reach of justice, decorum, or good taste, being put in charge of the world’s oldest large democracy. But that wouldn’t do it; the man would have to be so flexible on nature’s law -- on kindergarten levels of self-preservation -- that on one fine day he would stare into the sun, despite his servants screaming at him not to do so. That’s what it would take. Trump has done the impossible: he has made himself even blinder. Why would we expect anything else?

This goes in the history books, like the time his son turned over documents through Twitter, or the time before that, when Trump told us the real purpose of the travel ban OVER TWITTER. He really is a man who makes the impossible happen, and if he has purposefully done this to blow our collective minds, he is greater artist than the designer of the eclipse, God Almighty. Yesterday, in the name of the moon, Donald Trump owned himself harder than any of his critics ever could. I salute you, sir.
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"The American alt-right will spend a full week blinding themselves...."

. . .

[NoBody]

And what of the hospitals setting up for a flood of blind people?
Nope, no one came.

[NoBody]

On Tue, 22 Aug 2017 13:59:11 -0700 (PDT), "Thomas Sr."
<thomas.sw...@gmail.com> wrote:

>On Tuesday, August 22, 2017 at 9:40:02 AM UTC-4, First-Post wrote:
>> Just how desperate are sad little washed up trolls like Tom that the
>> best criticism they can come up with is that the pres glanced up at
>> the sun for a split second before putting on the eclipse glasses that
>> he had in his hand?
>
>
>If desperate, ignorant, and just dumbass STUPID, far-right wing Ko0Ks such as yourself, Postie, think that even looking directly at the sun for even a very short time with your naked eyes does not cause harm to your eyes, then I suspect someday there will be a lot of you wing-nuts wandering around using white canes with red tips.

Then how come there are no reports of folks flooding the ERs because
of having looked at the sun? Of the millions of people who looked at
it with glasses, there is likely an equal number who just took a quick
look. And....nothing!

>
>IF NOTHING ELSE, the president of the United States is suppose to sent an *example* for the American people.

And he did. The message was "don't buy into the overhyped media".

[NoBody]

On Tue, 22 Aug 2017 07:47:04 -0400, NoBody <NoB...@nowhere.com> wrote:

Silence from Tom...

[Thomas Sr.]

On Wednesday, August 23, 2017 at 6:47:16 AM UTC-4, Yak wrote:
> What the right gets is that you deranged leftist buttplugs will do
> anything to place Trump in a bad light.


No one on the Left has to do that; Trump does it for us himself.

. . .

[Rudy Canoza]

On 8/23/2017 3:47 AM, Yak wrote:

> On Tuesday, August 22, 2017 at 10:56:55 PM UTC-4, Thomas Sr. wrote:
>> I am not at all surprise other reasonable people Got It -- while you dumbass Trump-zombies still DO NOT.
>

> What the right gets is that you deranged leftist buttplugs will do anything to place Trump in a bad light.

Fuck off, Trump-felcher. Trump places *himself* in the bad light, every
time. He is not only incompetent and unfit as president, he is also
morally a fucking scumbag. Everyone can see that.

[Rudy Canoza]

On 8/23/2017 9:17 AM, Yak wrote:

> What part of "There's plenty to criticize the man about"

What part of my refutation of your juvenile whinge about placing Trump
in a bad light didn't you get, Trump-felcher? "Trump places *himself*
in the bad light" - that is a true statement. No one, ever, has
unfairly or wrongly put Trump in a bad light. Every time he is in a bad
light, he has set up the lighting himself.

[Rudy Canoza]

On 8/23/2017 9:18 AM, Yak wrote:

> As I said, there's plenty to criticize the man about. This isn't one of those things.

Of course it is. Staring at the sun without eye protection is stupid.
This confirms his stupidity. As before, he put himself into a bad
light, just as he put himself into a bad light by repeating that
long-debunked myth about Pershing ordering a war crime by murdering
Filipino guerrillas with bullets dipped in pigs' blood.

Trump puts himself into a bad light every time he speaks. Everyone can
see that, even Trump-felchers like you.

[Rudy Canoza]

On 8/23/2017 9:43 AM, Yak wrote:

> On Wednesday, August 23, 2017 at 12:30:10 PM UTC-4, Rudy Canoza wrote:
>> On 8/23/2017 9:18 AM, Yak wrote:
>>> On Wednesday, August 23, 2017 at 11:06:02 AM UTC-4, Thomas Sr. wrote:
>>>> On Wednesday, August 23, 2017 at 6:47:16 AM UTC-4, Yak wrote:
>>>>> What the right gets is that you deranged leftist buttplugs will do
>>>>> anything to place Trump in a bad light.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> No one on the Left has to do that; Trump does it for us himself.
>>>
>>> As I said, there's plenty to criticize the man about. This isn't one of those things.
>>
>> Of course it is.
>

> Of course it isn't.

Of course it is. It obviously is.

[NoBody]

On Wed, 23 Aug 2017 09:43:09 -0700 (PDT), Yak <y...@inbox.com> wrote:

>On Wednesday, August 23, 2017 at 12:30:10 PM UTC-4, Rudy Canoza wrote:

>> On 8/23/2017 9:18 AM, Yak wrote:
>> > On Wednesday, August 23, 2017 at 11:06:02 AM UTC-4, Thomas Sr. wrote:
>> >> On Wednesday, August 23, 2017 at 6:47:16 AM UTC-4, Yak wrote:
>> >>> What the right gets is that you deranged leftist buttplugs will do
>> >>> anything to place Trump in a bad light.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> No one on the Left has to do that; Trump does it for us himself.
>> >
>> > As I said, there's plenty to criticize the man about. This isn't one of those things.
>>
>> Of course it is.
>

>Of course it isn't. No more important that a second-by-second deconstruction of a handshake; or analyzing why the guy holds on to a railing when going down stairs or any other stupid mundane story that makes front page news on the likes of CNN. I didn't vote for the guy, but this kind of reporting is just silly shit. I'm right, you know I am.

>
>>Staring at the sun without eye protection is stupid.

Don't forget that stupid Rudy doesn't know the difference between a
glance and a stare.

[NoBody]

On Wed, 23 Aug 2017 09:17:45 -0700 (PDT), Yak <y...@inbox.com> wrote:

>On Wednesday, August 23, 2017 at 11:12:18 AM UTC-4, Rudy Canoza wrote:

>What part of "There's plenty to criticize the man about" didn't resonate in the gaping crevasse of your concrete skull?

That pretty much describes Rudy.

[NoBody]

<Tommy crickets.wav>

[Thomas Sr.]

nobody spams again.

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[Ubiquitous]

In article <73ee879c-f822-44d8...@googlegroups.com>, thomas.sw...@gmail.com wrote:

>http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-solar-eclipse-photo-stares-without-glasses-video-white-house-balcony-dont-look-aides-a7905771.html
>
>*Donald Trump Stares into Solar Eclipse Without Safety Glasses, While Aides Shout 'Don't Look!'*
>
>Experts say that looking at a solar eclipse without special eyeglasses could cause serious eye damage
>by Alexandra Wilts
>Tuesday, 22 August 2017
>
>WASHINGTON DC -- Donald Trump has been caught looking at the solar eclipse without safety glasses, despite all expert advice saying this practice is dangerous.
>

>“Looking directly at the sun is unsafe except during the brief total phase of a solar eclipse (“totality”), when the moon entirely blocks the sun’s bright face, which will happen only within thto view the 201

>
>“The only safe way to look directly at the uneclipsed or partially eclipsed sun is through special-purpose solar filters, such as ‘eclipse glasses’ or hand-held solar viewers.”
>
>But this didn't stop the President, who has a reported tendency to act against the advice of his aides, from sneaking a peak after taking off his protective glasses. He squinted as he briefly looked up at the sun.

That's pretty pathetic if that's the biggest criticism of trump you can make!

[#BeamMeUpScotty]

The things Rudy doesn't know could fill a NEWSGROUP.... and they often do.







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That's Karma


*Rumination*
22 - Make the Socialists proud of you, strive to be the best at
mediocrity that you can be.

[NoBody]

Tom spams again and misses his own irony (once again).
>
>