Bwaaaaaaaaaaaaah -OMFG Obama sent fake snow to the South

[malaise]

http://www.ajc.com/news/news/conspiracy-theorists-think-government-planted-fake/nc9cW/
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This week's wild weather across the south of the U.S. has raised a controversial question online: was it just a light snow, or a nefarious government conspiracy?

It was definitely just snow. But the last few days have seen scores of videos like this from skeptics who claim the snowflakes aren't the real deal.

"I have a sample of 'snow' ... leaving the snow unmelted." (Via YouTube / sugar magnolia)

The conspiracy reasoning goes like this: the snow is unusual in Georgia and other southeast areas and doesn't melt when burned. Therefore, it must be fake snow, distributed by the government, as a diversion from big government tyranny:

[Phentex]

1. All I know is the fake sun melted it

Within 2 days!

[Coyotl]

15. That can be blamed on Obama's cover-up.

[awoke_in_2003]

34. Thanks, Obama. nt

[Roy Rolling]

75. Only one way to find out....

Throw the snow in the water

[Cha]

86. Spectacularly

Obama's fault!!

thanks C!

[silverweb]

2. Rachel did a wonderful piece on this.

[font color="navy" face="Verdana"]Hilarious.

See Rachel's take here.

"There just ain't no cure for stoopid."

[malaise]

3. That's where I first saw it

[Volaris]

108. yep lol. "Because..Kenya, or something." RIOTOUS. Love Rachel

[malaise]

109. Just the expression on her face was hilarious

[Volaris]

114. "DO YOU KNOW HOW MANY TIMES THE IRS DIRECTOR WENT TO THE WHITE HOUSE???"

"No, really, do you?"

absolutely hilarious. Love her.

[malaise]

115. Ha

[Iggo]

12. That was great!

[Agschmid]

18. Thanks for the link!

[Pretzel_Warrior]

32. this is great. she and her staff clearly read DU also

some of her lingo seems more like what I've seen here when we go after woo on and conservative conspiracy theories.

Well done, Rachel!

[hootinholler]

50. That is choice!

USDA Prime debunkery there!

[Historic NY]

102. Snort....

lets tell them its artificial.

[MADem]

4. The Great And Powerful Weather God Obama should send some of that snow to Sochi!

Hell, if they make the snow from that water coming out of the taps in the Olympic Village, it'll be the color of Tang!

[malaise]

5. Why is he ignoring California?

[MADem]

7. Indeed, you'd think he'd wave his snow-making wand and help out the drought-stricken areas! nt

[LibertyLover]

22. There you go again -

inserting logic into a right-wing conspiracy theory.

[awoke_in_2003]

35. Because California elected him twice...

and it would just be too obvious if he helped them out, duh.

[awoke_in_2003]

36. Wait, that's not it...

His powers can only be used for evil. Thanks, Obama.

[Dopers_Greed]

21. I'm surprised he hasn't already

Since he has the "flexibility" to bow to Putin now that the election is over.

[Pretzel_Warrior]

33. no. that is the point. He is purposefully keeping snow from Sochi just like he did in Vancouver

because what the conservatives won't admit is they truly believe he is the Messiah.

Putin got on Obama's bad side and now this is what he gets. Putin is now killing stray dogs and packing dog meat into dry ice so he can send to Obama as a practical joke.

Isn't this all just like the ancients who thought there were demigods and gods controlling every little aspect of their lives. Their locus of control is external which is why many of the "rugged individualist" white conservatives are actually perfect examples of learned helplessness.

[MADem]

44. OMG....that's hilarious!

And we KNOW there are people out there who would buy it, hook, line and sinker!!!

And on the "learned helplessness" angle!

[pacalo]

6. I bet those same people bought every roll of duck tape they could find

when the media said it would protect us from 'nukular' exposure.

[taterguy]

8. And you wonder why I live in a tunnel

No snow down here

[malaise]

10. Thread win

[wandy]

9. Oh my "good-nice". Do you mean this is the first you've heard of fake snow..........

Why its just more proof that climate change is a farce. Global warming is such a liberal ripoff scam that the government is creation fake snow to prove it!
Why its so fake that it doesn't even burn!
http://www.geoengineeringwatch.org/chemically-nucleated-snow-what-is-it/

I warn you two times.......

Watch out where the gubbernment go. Don't you eat that chemical snow.
Watch out where the gubbernment go. Don't you eat that chemical snow.

And my momma laughed her butt off.

[malaise]

11. Bwaaaaaaaah hahahaha

[progressoid]

13. ...oh....my...god...

[snooper2]

14. Well if you are into chem trails this isn't too much of a stretch right?

Where are our chem friends at to chime in?

[Helen Borg]

63. Yup.

Chemtrail + cold = Fake snow

[Springslips]

82. Or HAARP...

The government can control the weather with their magic machine in Alaska.

[mstinamotorcity2]

16. Repugs Repeat after me.....

The World is Round, The World is Round

[2naSalit]

27. Not according to

many I hear and see in the news these days. Have you noticed how people have started saying, "...across the world" lately? It's like the world is now flat and those who think it's round, well...

[Aristus]

17. Under other circumstances, I might be moved to ask:

"Is there something in the water down there?"

But of course, we know that there is.

Lots of stuff.

Nasty stuff.

Brain-cell-killing stuff...

[ReRe]

67. The brain-cell-killing stuff is also...

... in that bottle of 130 proof

[Javaman]

19. this is what happens when we grossly underfund mental health programs. nt

[RexDart]

20. I guess they've never had a shave ice.

Phil Plait, who does the Bad Astronomy blog did it up nicely.

http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2014/02/03/conspiracy_debunked_atlanta_snow_doesn_t_melt.html

[Spitfire of ATJ]

23. ...

[NastyRiffraff]

24. There are some things so stupid, so wacked out

I'm literally left speechless. my jaw actually dropped. Ye gods.

[Iliyah]

25. Don't ya'know the one who controls the weather controls the world!

[hrmjustin]

26. Wow, just wow!

[Blue_Tires]

28. I *really* wish legitimate news outlets would stop dignifying these loons and nutbars

[Jamaal510]

29. Ah...there's nothing like a

good anti-government CT to keep one's adrenaline flowing.

[Cha]

87. ..

[Aerows]

30. We are getting more "fake snow"

today. LMAO. I guess they didn't get the memo that when it goes below freezing, even if it is this far South, precipitation turns to ice and chunks of it fall from the sky.

[awoke_in_2003]

37. Fort Worth is getting fake snow today....

I bet Obama is manufacturing that cold air, too.

[Aerows]

38. It's definitely Obama's fault

I criticize him for some policy decisions, but this is loon-ville.

[awoke_in_2003]

39. He'll never get re-elected...

if he keeps this up.

[Aerows]

40. LOL!

[awoke_in_2003]

41. He is going to change the constitution...

I heard the pukes at work discussing it at work. I left the room to have a cigarette- it is better for my health than listening to them.

[woodsprite]

42. Must be Democratic air, since Republican air would be hotter than hell. n/t

[awoke_in_2003]

65. Damn libruls...

[malaise]

53. He's messing with that Christie fundraiser

[awoke_in_2003]

66. Ah, I bet you are right...

[Blue Owl]

31. Pay no attention to the polar vortex, you numbskulls

[freshwest]

113. Didn't Rushbo declare that a Liberal Conspiracy? Never happened! It's all a lie! n/t

[VWolf]

43. D'oh! Thanks, Obama!!!! n/t

[tclambert]

45. Fake snow would come from a chemical factory, possibly owned by the Koch Brothers

or Freedom Industries or some such RIGHT WING company. Obviously some sort of plastic/petrochemical derivative. It's not government. It's clearly a corporate conspiracy to distract from the environmental disasters in West Virginia and the Alberta Tar Sands. Oh, and to make the local simpletons question global warming. Because if it snows in Atlanta, it must mean the entire worlds is colder. Forget the fact that it rained in Prudhoe Bay, Alaska (on the Arctic Ocean) in December for the first time in recorded history.

That, or the Chinese butterflies that stir up hurricanes. The Chinese have launched a butterfly training program, don'tchaknow.

[clarice]

46. Pay no mind to the man behind the curtain..nt

[hootinholler]

47. I just have a puddle where my snow sample was

That Obama sent a fish to steal it!

[sheshe2]

48. Aaaah...Obama is just playing with them!

See what's for sale here~

https://www.google.com/webhp?source=search_app#q=tin+foil+hats+for+sale&tbm=shop&spd=13708560709303185711

[malaise]

89. LOL

[yellowcanine]

49. OMG I thought this was an Onion Story. But it is real. Unbelievable.

Scientific literacy just hit an all time low in the South. If you heat snow directly with an open flame it goes directly from solid to gas. Throw the snow into a sauce pan and put it on the stove, geniuses.

[malaise]

58. This is a genuine case of

Ignorance is bliss.

[yellowcanine]

51. A friend of mine said his cousin told him he saw a black helicopter making snow over Atlanta.

[Fortinbras Armstrong]

110. Or was it his cousin's brother-in-law's aunt's hairdresser's proctologist's stepson.

[yellowcanine]

118. It might have been his aunt's hairdresser who also offers proctology services.

[shenmue]

52. OMG teh prezodint!

He can do everything!!!111!1!!

[truebluegreen]

54. I am totally out-matched, overwhelmed and overcome.

I can't think of anything to say, any smilies, any snark, anything to express adequately how stupid this is.

But it certainly is a demonstration of the apocalyptic perils that menace conservatives, everywhere they look. Wow.

Which leads me to ask, again, why haven't they taken up their arms against a sea of troubles, and by opposing end them? Seriously. Isn't that what all their fucking guns are for?

[SurfingScientist]

55. I encourage these people to visit NH...

... after a good ol' Nor'Easter. Find someone who's busy clearing the driveway of 3 ft of that white stuff (hint: that's what everybody will be doing). Tell them the white stuff was put there by a government conspiracy.

See how long you can go before being wheeled off in a straight jacket...

[tularetom]

56. If Obama can make fake snow and cause that much of a disruption to business as usual

They might want to think twice before they fuck with him.

[Volaris]

116. RIGHT????

either hes all powerful and their idiots, or hes not...and their idiots.
Oh wait...ok NOW this all makes sense

[steve2470]

57. that's like something Harddawn.com would put up...

and that's a SATIRE site. Unbelievable stupidity. Boggles the mind.

[nyquil_man]

59. I wonder if it's related to this:

[Tree-Hugger]

64. Obviously

That's mind control from the gays to subvert traditional marriage and kill baby Jesus.

Dear God, we need science in schools now more than ever.

[uppityperson]

71. Metallicatasized salts.

[xocet]

74. Unreal! n/t

[tanyev]

60. West Virginians better not try to burn their snow right now.

It might explode.

[malaise]

61. The poor folks in West Virginia are now melting snow

to bathe their children - they're correctly terrified of the water.

[get the red out]

62. It's real snow, at least as far down as Kentucky

And I was in Tennessee last weekend and their snow was real too.

Deeper south.....my guess is that the President enlisted the help of the Pleiadians in spreading a snow-like substance with their scout ships traveling inter-deminsionally through the star gate on the dark side of the moon (you know, the side we aren't allowed on).

[malaise]

69. ROFL

[jmowreader]

68. This has something to do with Benghazi

[malaise]

70. and the IRS

Acorn and anything else.

[frylock]

72. can y'all send some of that fake snow to cali?

we are woefully behind on our seasonal fake snowfall.

[Codeine]

73. Not much different from our very own chemtrail freaks.

Ignorance is ignorance.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

76. best piece of news i have heard all week!

[bluestate10]

77. The right needs more sedative than it is humanely possible. First they call the President an

amateur incompetent. Then they whiplash sane people by claiming that the President does things that could only mean the President has all knowing, God-like powers. The President simply can't be both.

[AC_Mem]

78. Good Grief!

My friend called me the other night and told me about this - I figured it was another republican conspiracy theory.

Shine on,
Annette

[Half-Century Man]

79. My current working hypothesis is

There is a finite amount of intelligence available on Earth, and with the ever expanding population.....

I also speculate; There are some, in a completely unselfish grassroots movement, who refuse to use their dwindling allotment of intelligence to save it for the future (I guess). It is worth noting that, as their public use of intelligence goes down, commonly their volume increases.

[sinkingfeeling]

97. LOL!! Great one!

[WillyT]

80. Well... I Guess If You Believe Shit Like This...

[ProSense]

81. I wasn't sure about opening this thread.

Now I wish I hadn't.

[Demenace]

83. Again while we mock the Right wing for their capacity to buy into nonsense...

...we should realize we ourselves have in recent times developed the capacity with regards to buying into the nonsense peddled by certain people that we have chosen to trust without any doubts!

I know a few here will ask the question, 'what in the world are you talking about?' My answer in advance of this question is simply that you look in the mirror and say, some of us around have not bought into the same mindset that the government is out to get us!

[JoeyT]

84. He sent some more today. It was a pretty half-assed, though.

At this rate, if he doesn't step up his game, the chemtrails and fluoride are going to be too dilute to do anything and the FEMA camps won't even have fences. I am disappoint.

[DireStrike]

85. I've heard Obama can make it rain, but snow? That's cold.

[mdbl]

88. How much longer will so called "news" publications print thoughts from the mentally ill?

It seems every bipolar thought makes it on the front page.

[Loaded Liberal Dem]

90. Okay, HERE's how STUPID these muthrefakirs are:

They think global warming is a hoax, and the cold weather and snow is a hoax!

[malaise]

91. Well the idea that any of them can string two thoughts together at the same time

is the real hoax.
Welcome to DU

[Loaded Liberal Dem]

92. Thanks!

[Incitatus]

93. Do they have a theory as to how Obama managed to spread millions/ billions? of tons

of fake snow across the south?

[malaise]

94. Theory

Do you think one of them has a fugging clue about the notion of a theory?

They have blind faith and obsessive hatred - the only two sources of fuel to keep their fire of ignorance aglow.

[sinkingfeeling]

95. OMG, just when you think people can't get any more stupid!

[iandhr]

96. Just when I thought I heard it all.

[demwing]

98. We built snowmen in our yard in Atlanta

but the sun won't melt them and now we have a snowman army and we can't get rid of them!



THANKS, OBAMA!

[malaise]

99. You did that?

It is so freaking cute

[demwing]

100. Oh hell no!

It was just a joke

I live in Florida, where it won't snow, ever (till the climate changes again...)

[malaise]

103. LOL

[pkdu]

101. Snowghazi! Nt

[FSogol]

104. LOL

[angrychair]

106. DUZY

You win the Internets!



Snowghazi... awesome

[Rozlee]

105. The next time one of those idiots calls Obama my Messiah...

I'm going to tell them he's their Messiah. They think he can change the weather and make it storm. Sounds kinda god-like to me. Bunch of nutbars.

[MrScorpio]

107. Huh… What?!?

[Orsino]

111. The best tinfoil hats have earflaps. n/t

[BobTheSubgenius]

112. Seeing clouds to make fake snow?

That seems like a rather paltry achievement, compared to causing a massive temperature drop over thousands of square miles.

[JDPriestly]

117. They must think Obama is a magician.

It couldn't be climate change, aka global warming, could it?

Gotta' blame somebody. Why not Obama?