Then I looked up word salad, and it turns out the term may apply after all (my emphasis):

“confused or unintelligible mixture of seemingly random words and phrases”, most often used to describe a symptom of a neurological or mental disorder. The words may or may not be grammatically correct, but are semantically confused to the point that the listener cannot extract any meaning from them. The term is often used in psychiatry as well as in theoretical linguistics to describe a type of grammatical acceptability judgment by native speakers, and in computer programming to describe textual randomization.

Interesting, no? So, it’s possible Cal is a ‘bot for testing our grammatical acceptability judgement. On current evidence, though, I’m going with my first evaluation: Trump voter trying to talk like he thinks a scientist would talk.

On the other hand, snow amounts and predictions were essentially spot on in other regions.

Uncertainty in long-range weather forecasts? Who would have thought? (Clearly not the denialists who jump on the usual uncertainty and attempt to blow it up – thinking is beyond them.)

Kevin … reading newspapers…

I think we can safely conclude from Kevin’s post that reading is not one of the things he’s mastered.

Threw people out without replacing them, cut funding, find people who want to kill the department, and want to give the cash to companies, not FEMA.

Among other things.

The budget they are operating under is Obama’s

Which means that all the economic improvements we’ve been seeing lately are also credited to Obama. Ok.