This Makes Me Immeasurably Happy
Y’all, the Scientific American magazine has made their first ever political endorsement.
The endorsement is fact based and relatively calm but devastating.
“His administration has been even worse for science than we feared,” Scientific American Editor-in-Chief Laura Helmuth told HuffPost in an email. “We couldn’t include all of our objections to his record in two print pages.”
I dunno, I guess I’d have to agree with him being even worse than I expected. I said he was going to get us all killed. I just didn’t know that he was also going to cook us and eat us.
Thanks to Epp for the heads up.
Blinded!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCwW8PEPyq8
1Headline:
CDC director suggests masks are ‘more guaranteed to protect against Covid’ than vaccine
Power-worship blurs political judgment because it leads, almost unavoidably, to the belief that present trends will continue. Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.
~ George Orwell
2This stance by Scientific American really is momentous. They are one of the most respected and influential scientific information sources in the world.
I’ve subscribed to SA since the 1960s, they have rarely ever let a hint of a political leaning appear on their pages.
The Trump Cultists and Republicans really are an existential mortal threat to the entire Earth and everything on it. They need to be eradicated.
3“I just didn’t know that he was also going to cook us and eat us.”
To Serve Man
Precisely what the RepubliKanamits will do to us all, via climate change or outright omnicide.
That RNC party ‘non-platform statement’ two page wishlist?
It’s a cookbook!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/To_Serve_Man_(The_Twilight_Zone)
“While being held back by a Kanamit guard, Patty cries: “Mr. Chambers, don’t get on that ship! The rest of the book To Serve Man, it’s… it’s a cookbook!””
4@Sandridge
One of my fav TZs. Right after Burgess Meredith “Time Enough at Last” and Keenan Wynn, “A World of His Own”.
5Sandridge @3:
6“They need to be eradicated.”
The most repugnantly obvious thing about them to me is that for an ideology that beats it’s chest so hard when screaming about freedom and no one telling them what to do, they sure as hell don’t mind deciding for everyone else.
They’re eradicating themselves.
Problem is, they’re killing us all too.
Micr @5,
Don’t forget the TZ episode that was Serling’s favorite of all, “He’ Alive”. Which is still seriously prescient even today.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/He%27s_Alive
“”He’s Alive” is episode four of the fourth season of The Twilight Zone. It tells of an American neo-Nazi who is inspired by the ghost of Adolf Hitler. Writer Rod Serling scripted a longer version of the teleplay to be made into a feature-length film, but it was never produced.
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Portrait of a bush-league Führer named Peter Vollmer, a sparse little man who feeds off his self-delusions and finds himself perpetually hungry for want of greatness in his diet. And like some goose-stepping predecessors he searches for something to explain his hunger, and to rationalize why a world passes him by without saluting. That something he looks for and finds is in a sewer.
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Where will he go next, this phantom from another time, this resurrected ghost of a previous nightmare – Chicago? Los Angeles? Miami, Florida? Vincennes, Indiana? Syracuse, New York? Anyplace, everyplace, where there’s hate, where there’s prejudice, where there’s bigotry. He’s alive. He’s alive so long as these evils exist. Remember that when he comes to your town. Remember it when you hear his voice speaking out through others. Remember it when you hear a name called, a minority attacked, any blind, unreasoning assault on a people or any human being. He’s alive because through these things we keep him alive.”
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7P.P. @6 “They’re eradicating themselves.”
Whatever the fock it takes, just got it done ASAP…
I don’t know if repugnantican politicians will ever embrace science and climate change. I mean some think the earth is flat. Maybe only a historic landslide will shake some into looking at themselves with a bit of reality. No hope for cultists, but maybe their voices will be drowned out a bit. Nah, wishful thinking.
8We need more voters with actual brains to flee the repugnantican party like some have in 2020. That might happen.
I love reading about an endorsement based on intelligent discernment of facts and information. And the subsequent intelligent commentary by intelligent people. It makes my day.
9Mask wearing may be better than a vaccine.
We had better get some seriously better PPE designed, because it doesn’t look like we will be losing it any time soon…
10This is a huge deal, and I am grateful. I still remember sitting in the school library and reading Scientific American.
11I also remember watching to serve man. Who knew I’d wind up living in the Twilight Zone?
12@Sandridge
Omg I can almost hear Sterling say “a bush-league Führer”. Biden needs that in a campaign ad.
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