Trump's Christmas Gift to America: New Math and No More Weather
I have another idea on how he can gift us, but I'd be arrested for saying it
The next time Mother Nature blows the roof off your house, praise the Lord that the drug companies treating your injuries will have to pay you for the privilege.
I say “injuries” because, since there won’t be any warning when it happens, you’ll be in the house, thanks to the regime’s latest gut-wrenching attack on weather scientists. And since the feeble-minded dolt from hell is telling us that we are now working with negative percentages when it comes to drug costs, it means you’ll get paid by insurance companies when you get hurt! Whoopee!
This makes me want to clean my arteries with Lysol, just like the same dumb ass suggested we do when he was busy killing us all off during Covid. Remember that?
No? I never forgot. How about a refresher? Yeah. I wrote this before 75+ million Americans voted again for this depravity:
The End of Weather Research
It’s so bad that even Al Roker is mad.
Check out these two tweets, the first from OMB Director and Project 2025 maestro Russell Vought, who thinks he’s the president, and then Al Roker, the affable and popular weather guy from NBC’s Today Show:
Al had thoughts:
Taking a sledgehammer to the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado (NCAR) is the very same thing as destroying weather-related research itself. The center has been the source of some of the United States’ most remarkable weather-related discoveries since at least the early 1970s. It is relied on by weather forecasters to provide forecasts and warnings of impending disasters.
The NCAR’s impact on human life has been profound
Here are some of the NCAR’s discoveries (much of this, especially the organizational parts, is in the words of the research center itself):1
Aviation and Public Safety
Microburst and Wind Shear Protection: NCAR developed the Low-Level Wind Shear Alert System (LLWAS) and “specialized Doppler radar algorithms that have virtually eliminated aircraft accidents caused by microbursts and wind shear.”
Most of you have heard of “wind shear” by now if you’ve done any flying. The NCAR is why. I’d sure hate to see Russ Vought caught in a wind shear, wouldn’t you?
Aircraft Icing and Turbulence: “The center created widely used products for detecting aircraft icing and turbulence, which are now staples for the Aviation Weather Center.” This airline safety improvement speaks for itself.
Wildfire Smoke Modeling: “Research such as the 2018 WE-CAN experiment has significantly improved the ability to predict the impact of wildfire smoke on air quality and visibility.”
Let’s say you live in Chicago and the weather forecaster is telling you that it’s going to be a smoky day because of Canadian wildfires. The NCAR is why.
Meteorological and Climate Breakthroughs
Madden-Julian Oscillation (MJO): In 1971, NCAR scientists discovered something called the MJO, a tropical “pulse” of clouds and precipitation now used to help predict extreme weather events long before they occur.
These patterns are now so commonly understood by scientists that we take for granted when weather forecasters tell us we’re in for a rough patch of weather.
From the NOAA, which is also under attack by the Trump regime, and Vought in particular: “An animation illustrating the organization of the MJO into its enhanced and suppressed convective phases during an MJO event during the spring of 2005. The green shading denotes conditions favorable for large-scale enhanced rainfall, and the brown shading shows conditions unfavorable for rainfall. The MJO becomes organized during late March through May as the green shading covers one half of the planet, and brown shades the other half all along as these areas move west to east with time. Notice how the shading returns to the same location on the order of about 45 days.” This isn’t Farmer’s Almanac stuff. It has saved lives and billions of dollars in property damage by helping people prepare for major weather events.2
GPS Dropsondes: NCAR invented the dropsonde, a device, according to the research facility, “released from aircraft into hurricanes to collect pressure, temperature, and wind data. This technology revolutionized hurricane path and intensity forecasting.”
If Vought has his way, the days of tracking hurricanes before they slam into Mar-a-Lago may come to an end. So there’s at least that positive.
Ozone Hole Research: NCAR helped discover the underlying reasons for the Antarctic ozone hole, helping to identify the specific chemicals causing it. Vought calls this climate alarmism. Scientists call it understanding why something happens.
El Niño Prediction: “Through long-term international experiments like TOGA (1985–1995), NCAR advanced the science of predicting El Niño events.”
Community Computational Modeling
NCAR has also contributed scientific research for use by the scientific community without charging fees for it, something that must make Caligulus Trumpus’s orange combover stand on end. The research center has contributed several open-source models to the cause of global atmospheric research:
Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) Model: “A next-generation system used for both operational forecasting and research.”
Community Earth System Model (CESM): “A cornerstone for international climate assessments, including those by the IPCC.”
Whole Atmosphere Community Climate Model (WACCM): “A comprehensive model spanning the Earth’s surface through the thermosphere.”
Supercomputing and Infrastructure
Supercomputing Leadership: “NCAR was the first customer of the CRAY-1A supercomputer in 1977. Today, it operates the Derecho supercomputer at the NCAR-Wyoming Supercomputing Center to run massive climate simulations.”
Mauna Loa Solar Observatory: “NCAR manages this key facility for measuring solar activity and predicting space weather that could disrupt global communication systems.”
Recent Accomplishments (2024–2025)
2024 Solar Eclipse: “NCAR’s High Altitude Observatory (HAO) led the CHEESE and FeSun experiments in 2024 to capture high-resolution data on the Sun’s corona.”
Nobel Peace Prize Contribution: “Dozens of NCAR scientists shared in the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize for their extensive work with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).”
Oh. Oh, my. NOW I know why the pedoFührer hates them. They got a Nobel Peace Prize! And he won’t, no matter how many boaters he kills in the Caribbean.
This explains everything.
The research center also identified a rare “jet-forced Santa Ana” wind that overwhelmed firefighters in the January 2025 Los Angeles fires. This discovery was made possible because the research facility, which has been in service since 1960, has a scientific infrastructure that allows scientists to react quickly to ongoing events.
Vought wants to destroy this.
Why? Nobody knows. Maybe the peace prize thing? I just can’t imagine why even a Trump jackal would want to suddenly rid the nation of such useful pure science.
It seems to be just a mad whim.
The New York Times explains the coming catastrophe rather well:
The National Center for Atmospheric Research was originally founded to provide scientists studying Earth’s atmosphere with cutting-edge resources, such as supercomputers, that individual universities could not afford on their own. It is now widely considered a global leader in both weather and climate change research, with programs aimed at tracking severe weather events, modeling floods and understanding how solar activity affects the Earth’s atmosphere.3
NCAR, under the banner of the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, was the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) first funded project, consisting of the unified efforts of 120+ colleges and universities. Its headquarters are in Boulder, Colorado, with additional facilities in Wyoming and Hawaii. Vought wants to disable the headquarters and, I’m guessing, gas the people who work in the Wyoming and Hawaii facilities.4
Nowadays, Vought is using the NSF as an attack vector on science funding.
The New York Times again:
Scientists said dismantling the center’s climate research would do irreparable damage to cutting-edge meteorology and advances in weather forecasting.
“It’s the beating heart of our field,” Kim Cobb, a climate scientist and the director of the Institute at Brown for Environment and Society, wrote in a post on Bluesky. “Generations of scientists have trained there, and almost everyone I know relies on deep collaborations with NCAR scientists.”
Now, that beating heart may die.
The New Math
This week, we also learned a new math concept.
It’s called the “Over 100 percent rule.”
For those of you who attended school at any point in your life, it may come as a surprise, but the stable genius that 70+ million Americans mysteriously voted for announced a 600 (sometimes a thousand!) percent decrease in drug costs. Amazing!
He announced this during whatever that was called last night, when he interrupted the end of Survivor and other network TV shows to shock and awe us with a display of dementia I haven’t seen since my Aunt Emma tried to bake the cat in a microwave back in 1977.
I was confused, so I broke down and asked AI what this means for me as a Medicare recipient.
Since it’s been a couple of years since I checked in on ChatGPT, I thought I’d give it a whirl.
Here is the question I posed:
President Trump said in his speech last night that drug prices are down by 600 percent. Was does this mean in real numbers? Can you provide an example?
ChatGPT was kind enough to answer, but it didn’t praise me, so I was a little annoyed. In fact, I have a feeling that ChatGPT, which keeps a log of our questions, I’m told, now thinks I’m a complete imbecile. To wit:
What percentage decreases mean in math
If a price goes down 100 %, it means you pay $0 — the entire price was eliminated.
You cannot have a standard price go down by more than 100 % — that would mathematically mean the seller pays you to take the product, which doesn’t happen with drug pricing. PolitiFact
Wow, ChatGPT? For real? But the Trump regime uses AI for EVERYTHING. Don’t they know this? Anyway, do go on:
So when someone says a price is down 600 percent, that literally means:
The product’s price would not only be free, but the seller would pay you six times the original price to take it.
Good Lord, even ChatGPT overuses the word “literally.” It continues with an example:
Example:
If a drug originally costs $100, a 600 % decrease would imply the price becomes:
$100 − ($100 × 6.00) = −$500
In other words — you’d receive $500 instead of paying $100
➡️ That never happens in real pricing.
Okay, fine. But doesn’t this mean that the insurance companies should now be paying us when we get prescriptions?
ChatGPT tried to let me down gently when it said that’s not how things work.
Notes
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Oh, one more thing…
Ask for a raincoat for the holidays. You’re gonna need more than one, methinks. And an extra shelter if you can afford one.
Footnotes
Many of these links are derived from U.S. government sources, meaning they may disappear under Russ Vought’s heavy hand.
“NSF NCAR Timeline | Archives.” 2025. Ucar.edu. NCAR. 2025. https://www.archives.ucar.edu/exhibits/ncar-timeline#:~:text=System%20Model%20workshop-,1996,Earth%20System%20Model%20(CESM.
“What Is the MJO, and Why Do We Care?” 2014. NOAA Climate.gov. December 31, 2014. https://www.climate.gov/news-features/blogs/enso/what-mjo-and-why-do-we-care.
Friedman, Lisa, Brad Plumer, and Jack Healy. “National Center for Atmospheric Research to Be Dismantled, Trump Administration Says.” The New York Times, December 17, 2025. h
Ucar.edu. “Who We Are | National Center for Atmospheric Research.” NCAR, 2025. https://ncar.ucar.edu/who-we-are.
Omg, he is dismantling the world. We are letting ourselves be eaten up. Heroes, where are you? This takes some power to lead. Please god there are people who step into feeling strong enough to go beyond ordinary ways to deal with what does not obey those ways.
The rundown on NCAR's contributions is genuinely useful, especially the microburst detection work--I didn't realize how much of modern aviation safety depends on that infrastracture. The "600 percent decrease" bit with ChatGPT trying to politely explain basic math is darkly funny, but the underlying point about gutting weather research is grim. When you cut the systems that help predict disasters, people die, full stop. The satirical tone works here because the actual policy decisions are so absurd they read like parody anyway.