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[Flo_Evans]

It's really surreal to see the United States so quickly become the villains of the world. Legion of evil, this administration.

ha! we've always been evil.

There's no way that the Federal Governments copy, is the only copy.

Right?

I mean I would hope so.

 

[Buckle]

The most cartoonishly evil administration..

 

[The Artisan]

The GOP is the single most dangerous organization on the planet. Their actions right now, threaten and continue to threaten the continued stability of global human civilization more then any other group of people in existence.

worse than isis though?

 

[Ryouji Gunblade]

They've really become a grosser version of the Captain Planet villains.

 

[AstroNut325]

Edit:
Saw this on Reddit, found it appropriate:

 

[SwiftDeath]

MEANWHILE AT THE LEGION OF DOOM....

I kind of feel like the Legion of Doom still wants a planet to wreck havoc and chaos on.

Like an apocalyptic wasteland devoid of human life seems like a less fun playground where they also might be dead too.

This feels more like the insane asylum a half a mile further down evil road territory

 

[Angelus Errare]

I don't recognize this country anymore..

I do, it's the same old ass racist, homophobic, money driven white men who quite literally don't give a fuck about anyone else. They've always been here.

 

[Kirye]

There can't be proof about global warming if they delete it all, obviously.

This is just ridiculous though, you can't just shred your bills hoping the debt goes away. Guess what? Shit's still there.

 

[TheSaddestSort]

Well, Harper already provided the playbook.

 

[Lubricus]

Ice Cap melting?

What Ice Cap?

Fake news indeed.

Oh, they know it is melting. From the Heritage Foundation ( a very conservative think tank):

The Arctic region is becoming increasingly important for a number of geostrategic reasons. Thawing ice allows lucrative shipping lanes to open and increases the possibility of natural resource exploration. Since four of the five Arctic littoral countries, in addition to Iceland, are also members of NATO, the alliance cannot afford to ignore the Arctic.

The U.S. should make the Arctic a higher priority for NATO while working to allay the concerns of Canada, which is wary of a stronger NATO presence in the Arctic...


However, the Arctic also offers many opportunities. Some estimates claim that up to 13 percent of the world’s undiscovered oil reserves and almost one-third of the world’s undiscovered natural gas reserves are located in the Arctic region. As ice continues to dissipate during the summer months, new shipping lanes have offered additional trade opportunities.

For example, using the Northeast Passage along the Russian coast reduces a trip from Hamburg to Shanghai by almost 4,000 miles, cuts a week off delivery times, and saves approximately $650,000 in fuel costs per ship. Unlike in the Gulf of Aden, there are no pirates operating in the Arctic...

Nevertheless, there have been some alarming developments that show that Russia is increasingly militarizing the Arctic. Russian air and submarine patrol activity in the Arctic and the North Sea has hit Cold War levels. The North Sea Fleet is now the largest fleet in the Russian navy. Recently, it was announced that Russia was reopening airbases on archipelagos above the Arctic Circle that were closed at the end of the Cold War.

Russia has made its position on the Arctic very clear. In 2011, after announcing the creation of two new Russian “Arctic Brigades” to be deployed in the Arctic, Vladimir Putin said: “As for our own geo-political interests (in the Arctic)…we shall be protecting them firmly and consistently.”

http://www.heritage.org/trade/report/nato-the-arctic-challenges-and-opportunities

 

[geomon]

Oh my god, he's literally trying to destroy the world.

 

[gimmmick]

I hope the state of California is backing up all this data. It's really troubling to see how much this administration is going backwards with the progress Obama has made the last 8 years.

 

[Killer Queen]

What the fuck is wrong with them?

Create your own legacy, stop destroying others.

That will be their legacy.

 

[ISee]

That's indeed very terrifying. I'm beginning to hate Trump and his administration.

 

[Chuck Norris]

That's indeed very terrifying. I'm beginning to hate Trump and his administration.

Beginning?

 

[btrboyev]

The next president sure is going to have to fix a lot of shit in a few months.

 

[Deleted member 10571]

And all this from a voted-in president who can't (allegedly) even fucking read.

Literally trying to doom the planet. What is wrong with that fuck? What can possibly go on in his head, realistically?

 

[Zolo]

The next president sure is going to have to fix a lot of shit in a few months.

The main hope is the current administration will be too busy with infighting and scandals to do too much damage.

And all this from a voted-in president who can't (allegedly) even fucking read.

Literally trying to doom the planet. What is wrong with that fuck? What can possibly go on in his head, realistically?

Something obviously since he uses Fox News as a news source as the President of the US with all resources that come with that position.

 

[perfectchaos007]

Saw this on Reddit, found it appropriate:

That must have taken hours to edit frame by frame. props to the .gif artist

 

[ISee]

Beginning?

I was never a fan and treated him like the idiot he is (aka laughing at him). But in the last couple of days... this orange monkey could be dangerous for all of us (and not just the u.s.a.).

 

[Dehnus]

https://www.theguardian.com/comment...researcher-donald-trump-deleting-my-citations


This is absolutely horrifying, It's going to make a lot of research impossible, because you won't have any starting point or any data for comparison. I get that he doesn't believe in global warming so therefore the data should be meaningless to him and all he needs to do is deny it, so why delete it?

Unless of course they know the data is valid and they are knowingly deleting it which should be a crime against humanity. This research is all taxpayer funded by the way.

Kill planet if old.

EU Researchers and Other Activists in the world :"Don't worry we got it." .

Basically US scientists have been trying to smuggle out and back things up like crazy, as they were already afraid of this (While the Republican Pest Infestation said they shouldn't worry). Seems like they should have worried and they were right to worry, so with their friends all over the world, the data is now safe. Right out of the hands of the Republican pests and their Orange OompaLoompa saviour .

Hooray for science!

 

[Flo_Evans]

That must have taken hours to edit frame by frame. props to the .gif artist

Im sure they used motion tracking software lol.

 

[Woorloog]

I'm thinking that climate change denial and actively working against those who'd try to fight climate change (ie everyone but fucking USA), including sabotaging research efforts, should be considered a crime against humankind.

 

[Ac30]

worse than isis though?

ISIS can kill a few hundred people at a time. Trump's administration is taking rights away from tens of millions while actively destroying the planet we live on, and will only fuel anti-western sentiment in Africa and the Middle East.

ISIS is chaotic evil, the entire administration is lawful evil. Far more damaging.

 

[Dehnus]

I feel like Donald Trump is a test from God and Evangelical Christians are failing.

They failed the moment they wend for predestination together with he rest of Calvinism.

"What part of "However you treat the least of my brothers..." did you not understand?"

 

[Trojita]

Fucking terrifying. And the act of even getting access or restoring the data that archivists were able to get will be a mess. Fragmented data not all in one place, checks to make sure the data is accurate and not modified, being able to access all the archives.

 

[Flo_Evans]

Fucking terrifying. And the act of even getting access or restoring the data that archivists were able to get will be a mess. Fragmented data not all in one place, checks to make sure the data is accurate and not modified, being able to access all the archives.

This is like, a great use for torrents.

 

[SolicitorPirate]

Yo America, could you stop being a straight up super Villain? Thx

 

[Trojita]

I feel like Donald Trump is a test from God and Evangelical Christians are failing.

If Revelations is real I'm pretty sure Evangelicals will be the one to put the Anti-Christ in power.

 

[zethren]

Yo America, could you stop being a straight up super Villain? Thx

As an American, I second this request.

 

[DiipuSurotu]

ha! we've always been evil.

Is this a variant of "Both sides"?

 

[Freeza Under The Shower]

If Revelations is real I'm pretty sure Evangelicals will be the one to put the Anti-Christ in power.

so like, last year then?

 

[Beartruck]

What happens when the bull gets into the china shop. No time for finesse, just anger and smashing and eating overcooked steak with ketchup.

 

[Angelus Errare]

Im sure they used motion tracking software lol.

Yea it's pretty simple in After Effects, might need to go in and tweak a frame here and there but it's motion tracking abilities are pretty good.

 

[AstroNut325]

That must have taken hours to edit frame by frame. props to the .gif artist

Also found this at Reddit: An app that makes that GIF!

 

[Usobuko]

Is this a variant of "Both sides"?

The post it quoted implies that the US was good before Trump administration but to innocent brown people in the middle east who getting drone strike for example , US was always evil.

Less than a variation of both side and more of the recognition of the flaws of one's country rather than blind patriotism.

 

[Gouty]

This saddens me greatly, knowing that as human beings, we collectively have very shitty memory. We are doomed to repeat this shit over and over and over again.

I wouldn't sweat it, the planet is going to take care of its pesky human problem.

 

[perfectchaos007]

Also found this at Reddit: An app that makes that GIF!

megaton!
edit: the version on the Appstore is terrible. You win this round, Android

 

[Pop-O-Matic]

so like, last year then?

As I said before, Trump isn't the Anti-Christ. He's too blatantly evil for that honor.

 

[Dalek]

Pure evil.

 

[Biggest-Geek-Ever]

It really is sickening how many people in power (who even have children and grandchildren!) do not give a solitary fuck about the future of this planet.

 

[GifGafIsTheBestGaf]

Actually deleting scientific data? This is literally horrifying.

History will not be kind to this pure evil.

All the people in power, including Trump, who did not stop this should have their names stained in the history books forever.

but they are just going to delete it again when re-elected


sad jokes aside, is it possible for these evil bastards to not do an evil deed for just one day?

 

[shem935]

There a gif of nazis burning books in Indiana jones?

 

[HaloRose]

If any aliens out there come save us please!!

 

[akira28]

so...we got backups of this shit right? Does no one think this will come back to haunt them? Is Trump planning on dying in the next 4 years or something? Being blamed for the 2nd great Cataclysm is not going to help his legacy.

 

[Lightning_Roller]

Fuck the trump administration. That is all.

 

[Mr. Giggles]

I wouldn't sweat it, the planet is going to take care of its pesky human problem.

Yes.

When the white walkers come.

 

[Cheerilee]

What exactly is disappearing? The article was really vague on this, just "my citations". Are they looks to government databases that are now gone? Are they relocating or actually deleting? I don't get it and it makes this read more like sensationalism.

The government hosts a multitude of scientific information. This guy works in Arctic science, and frequently references government information.

Once Donald Trump was elected on November 8, a number of "paranoid" scientists said "Fuck" and started making offsite backups, because they felt that climate change-denier Trump couldn't be trusted to host actual scientific information.

Trump was sworn in on January 20.

On January 21, literally the day after he was sworn in, the US National Strategy for the Arctic was deleted. The Implementation Plan for the US National Strategy for the Arctic was deleted. And the Progress Report for the US National Strategy for the Arctic was deleted. And these are just the files in the area of study that this one scientist works with.

Once a week, this scientist has to go through a new list of environmental information that (by way of broken links in his own work) he has discovered that the Trump Administration has found and deleted, which has not been "moved" or "misplaced" because he needs to spend 20 minutes finding backups of the information in the hands of "crazy" archivists who fortuitously made backups out of fear that the Orange Bastard might try to do something so goddamn evil.

 

[SolarPowered]

literal russian stooge

 

[Makki]

Pluto is a planet