It might be true that they haven’t ever seen Mt. Rainier not completely covered in snow, but that doesn’t mean it doesn’t happen, or that it’s unprecedented.
▪️You don’t have to go back too far to find similar pictures and comments. This web post was from 2020 and has a picture credited to the National Park Service at an unknown date (but prior to this year) showing a beautiful, but very bare Mt. Rainier. (Picture posted in comments)
https://www.historylink.org/file/21111
▪️In 2015, hot weather caused greater than normal snowmelt on Rainier, which many articles covered showing the bare rock. (Again, pictures in the comments)
https://www.knkx.org/post/mount-rainiers-glaciers-retreating-likely-fastest-rate-ever-seen-summers-heat
▪️In fact, there was a group post back then lamenting that they had “never seen the Rainier peak without snow.” Although that person was admittedly just 16.
http://www2.lifeinusa.com/communities/seattle-wa/mt-rainier-melted-snow-july-2015https://www.nps.gov/mora/faqs.htm
▪️Going back further, an informational booklet on Mt. Rainier published in 1978 (when the person from this meme was 5) had a cover photo of Rainier in the summer showing ~1/2 snow coverage on the top. But this was presented showing the beauty of the area, not pronouncing doom. (Photo in comments)
http://npshistory.com/publications/mora/barnett-c1978.pdf
This is from the 1978 booklet:
🔹”Finally, some 10,000 years ago the climate began warming up again and the great ice shield slowly retreated. The alpine glaciers, which had extended many miles down the canyons retreated to their high altitude "last stand". This is how we see the landscape today. But remember that the forces of nature are constantly at work.”
▪️Also, the current FAQ from the NPS on Rainier says this:
🔹”Does the snow at Paradise ever melt?
Although Paradise is one of the snowiest places on Earth where snowfall is measured regularly, it does enjoy a brief but glorious snow-free season. In most years, the area is snow-free from about mid-July through late September. October snowfall usually melts in between storms. The ground is usually completely snow covered for the winter by Thanksgiving.”
https://www.nps.gov/mora/faqs.htm
It’s funny to see the left use the same conspiratorial rhetoric as the right did a year ago regarding the jobs numbers being downwardly revised. So many on the right, who knew nothing of how the jobs numbers are calculated or why they revise them, were convinced the downward revisions were a conspiracy to help Biden win.
If people want to have a debate about the birth death model or the survey methods, ok, but that’s not what’s happening here. Most people are under the delusion that the BLS report is the govt reporting every job created and lost, and are thus easily swayed it’s rigged when it suits their political ends.
This is almost laughingly misleading, as it leaves out everything before the letter.
▪️After being repeatedly lampooned by the Smothers Brothers over Vietnam, Johnson finally had enough. One night at 3 am he called the head of CBS William Paley, demanding that he “get those bastards off my back.”
▪️Paley then asked the heads of CBS entertainment to get them to back off of LBJ. However, instead of backing off the Smothers Brothers doubled down, booking a folk musician performing “Waist Deep,” an anti-war song about a soldier being stuck in the mud while “the big fool says to push on,” clearly a dig at LBJ.
▪️At the last minute, CBS cut the song from the pre-taped show to the outrage of the Smothers. They continued to push the boundaries off and on for the rest of his presidency, with CBS sometimes cutting segments that they thought went too far. Basically, it was a soft form of censorship.
▪️It wasn’t until Johnson made his surprise announcement not to run in 1968 ...
