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634-5789

(4,175 posts)
Fri Oct 15, 2021, 10:44 AM Oct 2021

NOT THE ONION: Pro-Trump candidate suggests'get all the boats out of the water' to lower sea levels

"I'm curious, Do you think the sea level would lower, if we just took all the boats out of the water? Just a thought, not a statement," wrote Scott Pio, who is challenging Democratic Del. David Reid in Loudoun County's District 32.

Facepalm level 9

https://www.rawstory.com/scott-pio-sea-level/

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NOT THE ONION: Pro-Trump candidate suggests'get all the boats out of the water' to lower sea levels (Original Post) 634-5789 Oct 2021 OP
. empedocles Oct 2021 #1
TFG supporters are idiots LetMyPeopleVote Oct 2021 #2
I think it's been estimated that it *might* lower levels by a couple of microns. Buns_of_Fire Oct 2021 #3
Get rid of all the oil tankers and container ships dalton99a Oct 2021 #4
lol We're so screwed. BeckyDem Oct 2021 #5
Also, Are there too many whales? Omnipresent Oct 2021 #6
Loudon Kentucky? Dirty Socialist Oct 2021 #7
No, Loudoun County, Virginia (see article). Mostly highly spooky3 Oct 2021 #9
This story will go international Submariner Oct 2021 #8
That's silly crud Oct 2021 #10
Curses. Foiled again. relayerbob Oct 2021 #11
tfg has the best of the best working for/with him...WHY DIDN'T BIDEN THINK OF THIS????? spanone Oct 2021 #12
I want this fact checked a few more times. LiberatedUSA Oct 2021 #13
Typical inthewind21 Oct 2021 #14
I have to say PCIntern Oct 2021 #15
This isn't "thinking out of the box" imho. BootinUp Oct 2021 #16
Plus, we could push the boats off the edge of the earth and not create waste to dispose of. Vinca Oct 2021 #17

Buns_of_Fire

(17,157 posts)
3. I think it's been estimated that it *might* lower levels by a couple of microns.
Fri Oct 15, 2021, 10:54 AM
Oct 2021

But you know what they say: A micron here, a micron there, and pretty soon we'll be talking millimeters!

Omnipresent

(5,691 posts)
6. Also, Are there too many whales?
Fri Oct 15, 2021, 10:58 AM
Oct 2021

Maybe if they weren’t a protected species, we could hunt and remove them from the sea, and lower the oceans even more!

spooky3

(34,406 posts)
9. No, Loudoun County, Virginia (see article). Mostly highly
Fri Oct 15, 2021, 11:06 AM
Oct 2021

educated DC and tech commuters and their families.

crud

(614 posts)
10. That's silly
Fri Oct 15, 2021, 11:11 AM
Oct 2021

Where would we put all the boats? They'd just make the dry land heavier and cause it to sink.

spanone

(135,795 posts)
12. tfg has the best of the best working for/with him...WHY DIDN'T BIDEN THINK OF THIS?????
Fri Oct 15, 2021, 11:22 AM
Oct 2021


they CAN'T be that stupid
 

LiberatedUSA

(1,666 posts)
13. I want this fact checked a few more times.
Fri Oct 15, 2021, 11:28 AM
Oct 2021

I’m having a difficult time processing this from the absurdity of it.

The freshman GOP in the House have opened the floodgates of stupidity and filled our safety dome with rivers of overflowing shit.

PCIntern

(25,484 posts)
15. I have to say
Fri Oct 15, 2021, 11:59 AM
Oct 2021

I have to say that these people have something wrong with their wiring but are remarkably creative in an insane way.

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