What’s this now?
They love each other?
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I guess by this point Donakd Trump figures he can get away with writing anything.
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His “power of positive thinking” schtick isn’t going to get him out of this one.
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The amount of groveling he’s doing to try to portray himself as some sort of great peacemaker is so transparent. Yet, so many will eat it right up. Never mind he got us into this mess.
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You already know that bullshit is for his base and as a foundation for the GOP’s talking points when vomiting it back to their constituents and when dealing with the press. The press has got to push back at them and hit them with facts and timelines.
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well that lasted a “long time”…
Israel-Iran war live: Trump declares ceasefire in ‘12-day war’; Israel reports three dead in Iranian missile attack
As dawn broke in Israel and Iran, confusion reigned as to whether the two countries were still at war. Israelis, who fell asleep to the news that a ceasefire had been agreed to, woke up to four consecutive missile warnings, heading back and forth to the shelters as a missile hit a residential building in Be’er Sheva, killing three, according to the Israel fire and rescue centre.
Iran experienced some of its most intense Israeli bombings yet overnight, with one social media users in Tehran writing “the bombardment tonight in Tehran was extremely intense. For a full hour the explosions wouldn’t stop. We are a completely defenseless people.” …
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No, it was always awarded to actual scientists for actual research. It’s been used a couple of times to criticize anti-scientific policy, but from the start it was awarded to real scientists.
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At the beginning it was mostly not for real scientists - it was a mix - silly-sounding research, pseudo-science and outright fraud and scams, and piss-taking/social commentary (e.g. Dan Quayle getting an education award, Michael Milken for economics, a peace prize for Daryl Gates just after Rodney King, etc.). It was a pretty mixed message at best, and over the years they winnowed it down to legit research while making a point that it might sound silly, but was still potentially valuable science. That message was very much absent at the beginning, or at least lost in the mix.
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Still wrong.
“ Did They Really Do These Things?
Are these things real? Yes, indeed. You can look it up. That’s why we give you the references.
The only exceptions came in 1991, the very first year of the ceremony, and 1994. In 1991, three additional Prizes were given for apocryphal achievements. In 1994, one prize was based on what turned out to be erroneous press accounts. Those four apocryphal achievements are not included in the list on this page. ALL the other Prizes, in all years, were awarded for genuine achievements.”
The prize came out of the Journal of Irreproducible Results, which was a humorous compendium of silly but real research. The apocryphal achievements were NOT the focus or purpose of the prize, not from the first prize in 1991 or it’s origins before then.
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It’s pretty clear that T****’s purpose behind the fake ceasefire is to be able to escalate when Iran “violates” the nonexistent ceasefire that they never agreed to.
The administrations response has been a perfect example of everyone around T**** declaring that he hasn’t shat himself, including Faux News, then him proudly announcing that he shat himself.
This way, he gets to claim success in negotiating a ceasefire (that doesn’t exist) and then still getting a war to try to reverse his unpopularity. What it looks like is all but half of his base are seeing right through it, despite a full-court press from the corporate media.
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Huh, I’m surprised. The 2004 Ig Nobels included the “Gorillas in our Midst” study which was real science, but also one that was given to Coca Cola “for using advanced technology to convert liquid from the River Thames into Dasani, a transparent form of water, which for precautionary reasons has been made unavailable to customers”. Because using two different method of water purification combined to give it bromates. So at least some of them weren’t complimentary.
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Oh, definitely not all (or even most) complimentary. Until they really caught on, I’m sure most of the researchers who won weren’t too happy about it. Being made fun of (no matter how richly deserved) has that effect on people. 
Now that it’s well-known, it’s less offensive, but it didn’t start that way.
I still stand by my initial analysis, that T**** would never be associated with it because he’s not a scientist or even as deep of a thinker as Dan Quayle.
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Cease fire has different meanings to different people. Do foreign countries involved in a war look to social media for guidance?
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The Seven Circles of Heil.
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Holy crap, trump was just asked about the cease fire…
He got angry and said neither country knows what the f*ck they’re doing.
He said a swear.
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Another one for the “every accusation is a confession” folder.
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You built that.
I guess he thought the whole world would just do his bidding.
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CBS Execs Have Second Thoughts About Paying Trump Bribe Money After California Threatens Bribery Inquiry
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