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The Center for American Progress reports:
Obama is famously low key. That's why on the hit Comedy Central show "Key & Peele", Keegan-Michael Key plays "Luther, President Obama's anger translator". The [annual White House Correspondents' Association dinner], however, is a rare place where the President can cut loose--as long as he uses humor.
In a hilarious admission that he has been too low key to convey the moral outrage justified by humanity's myopic march toward self-destruction--and by the brazen denial of climate science by many conservatives--Obama brought out "Luther" to express that outrage. And then, in an ingenious twist, Obama became so outraged that he didn't need Luther and in fact Luther himself couldn't take the genuinely angry Obama, who says of denial, "What kind of stupid, shortsighted, irresponsible, bull-"
Here's a video of the event.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 28 2015, @09:43AM
You're on a train, and are approaching something that looks like a strong wall. You know if the train hits a strong wall, a big disaster is the result. You are told that acting on the controls of the train affects the movement of the train, and that if you don't act quickly you'll no longer be able to stop the train before it hits the wall. However, you've got no unambiguous proof that the wall is really massive (it might just look massive, after all), and there are some people telling you that any correlation between acting on the controls and train movements that have been observed are pure coincidence. They also warn you of the inconveniences caused by halting the train.
So what do you do, halt the train, or run the train into the wall in the hope that it won't be as massive as it looks?
(Score: 4, Funny) by c0lo on Tuesday April 28 2015, @12:44PM
No, you're not on a train.
You're waiting for a train. A train that'll take you far away. You know where you hope this train will take you. But you can't know for sure. Yet it doesn't matter. Now, tell me why?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 2) by GreatAuntAnesthesia on Tuesday April 28 2015, @01:24PM
> You're waiting for a train. A train that'll take you far away. You know where you hope this train will take you. But you can't know for sure. Yet it doesn't matter. Now, tell me why?
I've never seen a turtle.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 28 2015, @06:46PM
You're on a train
No, you're not on a train.
You're on a train called "denial"?
Not as much fun as "A Streetcar Named Desire", but deniers can't be choosers!! (Stella!!!!!!!)
(Score: 4, Insightful) by fritsd on Tuesday April 28 2015, @02:09PM
They also scream at you that they'll sue you for your last penny, if you cause the train to halt and thereby cause them to miss their important appointment.
FTFY.
(Score: 5, Interesting) by fritsd on Tuesday April 28 2015, @02:15PM
Anecdote: something similar actually happened to me. In my life I have (so far) pulled the emergency brake of a train thrice; twice to save someone's life (running along on the outside with their hand stuck inside), and once to save someone's fingers (stuck between the door from the inside, so invisible from the outside, and with 10 minutes to the next station). I was screamed at for causing the train delay, and threatened to have to pay a € 250 fine (the other two times I was thanked instead). I'm glad I never had to pay, otherwise I might be reluctant to pull the brake the next time I see the same event unfolding.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 29 2015, @12:42AM
After three incidents I have to conclude that you must be putting people in jeopardy to create an excuse to pull the brake.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Tuesday April 28 2015, @03:26PM
What matters most is, that you take your meds.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 28 2015, @03:43PM
I suppose you have first-hand experience about that.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 28 2015, @08:59PM
That analogy only holds if you acknowledge the big hairy toll-taking troll who guards the engine room. He'll only let you turn the knobs on the controls some amount proportional to all of the things that you care or enjoy about modern living that you turn over to him.
(Score: 2) by sjames on Wednesday April 29 2015, @01:18AM
And you left out that he left the back door unlocked and fell asleep.