I was sure that Chelsea Manning was going to get elected Senator from Maryland. He had everything going for him, a huge Progressive cult following for being an trans-woman, anti-American, anti-cop, anti-military, traitor.
His victory was certain.
No Republican would have been able to stop him.
Then he did the unthinkable. The one real sin of Progressivism. The one act that could not be forgiven as #Resistance.
He acted the tiniest bit friendly with someone on the other side.
That was it. He was infected with the NAZI cooties.
There was no excuse possible. He stood next to a member of the alt-right for more than a second and didn’t bash his head with a bike lock. That’s enough to make Manning part of the alt-right.
its been over a week since ive let everyone who helped me out of prison down, so many of you have helped me thru tough times, i tried too hard to do too much, im sorry im a human being and not a symbol, i have hit rock bottom
This is just like my last post about Bill Nye, the one thing that I progressive can’t do is be seen being amicable with a non-Progressive. They will be torn down by their own side for this.
Commit treason against the Unites States an go to jail for it, that’s a plus. Shake an alt-right hand and they will burn you at the stake.
I can’t wait until the next American civil war. We just need to release a video on Twitter of the Left’s commanding general shaking hands with Sebastian Gorka and they’ll just start shooting each other.
He became a hyper-progressive, not just pushing “the end is nye” climate change hysteria, but promoting progressive gender nonsense as well.
For some reason I fail to understand, Jim Bridenstine, Trump’s nominee for NASA director, invited Bill Nye to be his guest at the State of the Union.
There has been controversy about the nomination of Jim Bridenstine since he was not a NASA employee but a Congressman.
I don’t care. I don’t believe the someone has to be a “space professional” to be NASA director. NASA is a goverment agency, and the skills it takes to run an agency are very different than the skills it takes to perform an EVA.
Besides, Obama picked Charles Bolden, a former astronaut, to be NASA director and the first thing they did was Muslim outreach. They then focused NASA’s efforts onto climate change. The NOAA already existed for that job. Under Obama the shuttle was mothballed with no plan to phase something new in any time soon and the James Webb Space Telescope was back burnered. It was ruined as a agency and when Trump was elected, the proof was the bellyaching of Rouge NASA employees. I thought real space scientists would be excited about going back to the moon and then onto Mars. Turns out they just wanted to do more climate change data fudging.
Obama had sucked the Right Stuff out the NASA and if a Congressman can put it back in there, I’ll support that 100%.
A real scientist would be excited to meet the potential future director of NASA. I know I would.
Bill Nye Does Not Speak for Us and He Does Not Speak for Science
By attending the State of the Union with NASA administrator nominee Jim Bridenstine, the Science Guy tacitly endorses climate denial, intolerance and attacks on science
500 Women Scientists is a progressive, Social Justice organization.
500 Women Scientists is a grassroots organization started by four women who met in graduate school at CU Boulder and who maintained friendships and collaborations after jobs and life took them away from Boulder. Immediately following the November 2016 election, we published an open letter re-affirming our commitment to speak up for science and for women, minorities, immigrants, people with disabilities, and LGBTQIA.
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So as typical progressives, there was no amount of interaction with the other side of the aisle that is acceptable.
As scientists, we cannot stand by while Nye lends our community’s credibility to a man who would undermine the United States’ most prominent science agency. And we cannot stand by while Nye uses his public persona as a science entertainer to support an administration that is expressly xenophobic, homophobic, misogynistic, racist, ableist, and anti-science.
That’s not the language of scientists. That is the language of social justice activists. Anti-Science is a weasel phrase for “doesn’t tow the line on man made climate change.” Saying “NASA is about space exploration and I’m going to stop wasting resources on being redundant to the NOAA and start heading back to the moon” is not anti-science. Obama did worse to NASA than Trump ever could.
Also, “but Trump.”
Scientists are people, and in today’s society, it is impossible to separate science at major agencies like NASA from other pressing issues like racism, bigotry, and misogyny. Addressing these issues should be a priority, not only to strengthen our own scientific community, but to better serve the public that often funds our work.
Nope. Science is a methodology used to better understand how the universe works. Good science gets repeatable results. If you want to be taken seriously as a scientist, do good science.
Bridenstine’s anti-science record and his stance on civil rights, and to implicitly support a stance that would diminish the agency’s work studying our own planet and its changing climate. Exploring other worlds and studying other planets, while dismissing the overwhelming scientific evidence of climate change and its damage to our own planet isn’t just dangerous, it’s foolish and self-defeating.
Bridenstine wants to put people on the moon and on Mars and has tried to expand the area of commercial space exploration. To me that sounds like good policy for NASA.
Since he doesn’t want NASA focused on climate change, he’s anti-science.
Further, from his position of privilege and public popularity, Bill Nye is acting on the scientific community’s behalf, but without our approval. No amount of funding for space exploration can undo the damage the Trump administration is causing to public health and welfare by censoring science.
Calling climate change quackery, “quackery” is not censoring science.
No number of shiny new satellites can undo the racist policies that make our Dreamer colleagues live in fear and prevent immigrants from pursuing scientific careers in the United States. And no new mission to the Moon can make our LGBTQ colleagues feel welcome at an agency run by someone who votes against their civil rights.
The job of NASA is satellites and missions to the moon. If you let Dreamers and trans bathrooms stop you from putting satellites in space and men on the moon, you are the anti-science problem.
As women and scientists, we refuse to separate science from everyday life. We refuse to keep our heads down and our mouths shut. As someone with a show alleging to save the world, Bill Nye has a responsibility to acknowledge the importance of NASA’s vast mission, not just one aspect of it. He should use his celebrity to elevate the importance of science in NASA’s mission—not waste the opportunity to lobby for space exploration at a cost to everything else.
The expansion of human knowledge of phenomena in the atmosphere and space;
The improvement of the usefulness, performance, speed, safety, and efficiency of aeronautical and space vehicles;
The development and operation of vehicles capable of carrying instruments, equipment, supplies and living organisms through space;
The establishment of long-range studies of the potential benefits to be gained from, the opportunities for, and the problems involved in the utilization of aeronautical and space activities for peaceful and scientific purposes.
The preservation of the role of the United States as a leader in aeronautical and space science and technology and in the application thereof to the conduct of peaceful activities within and outside the atmosphere.
The making available to agencies directly concerned with national defenses of discoveries that have military value or significance, and the furnishing by such agencies, to the civilian agency established to direct and control nonmilitary aeronautical and space activities, of information as to discoveries which have value or significance to that agency;
Cooperation by the United States with other nations and groups of nations in work done pursuant to this Act and in the peaceful application of the results, thereof; and
The most effective utilization of the scientific and engineering resources of the United States, with close cooperation among all interested agencies of the United States in order to avoid unnecessary duplication of effort, facilities, and equipment.
If NASA is busy with social justice, it’s not doing space exploration. I want space exploration.
The true shame is that Bill Nye remains the popular face of science because he keeps himself in the public eye.
On this, we agree.
Bill Nye does not speak for us or for the members of the scientific community who have to protect not only the integrity of their research, but also their basic right to do science. We stand withothers who have asked Bill Nye to not attend the State of the Union. Nye’s complicity does not align him with the researchers who have a bold and progressive vision for the future of science and its role in society.
No one is stopping you from doing science because of your race, gender, sexual orientation, or etc. It’s that your social justice science sucks. You are the same kind of people that are currently destroying math. Stop trying to destroy science too.
At a time when our ability to do science and our ability to live freely are both under threat, our public champions and our institutions must do better.
Only your bad science is under threat.
I’m embarrassed by these 500 Women. They aren’t scientists. They are social justice warriors in lab coats.
This letter is a tragedy, and I don’t feel like taking lessons on what is science from people who believe that a man can become a woman by identifying that way.
The only thing about this letter that makes me nod my head in approval is watching the progressive mob tear one of it’s most vocal members down for shaking hands with a Republican.
I’ve had a number of people, online, throw the name Paul Nehlen at me. It’s been in response to my assertion that the worst anti semitism in America right now is coming from the Progressive Left.
Sure there are some neo Nazis on the alt right, but they have no power. They are losers. They are neo Nazis because they are angry, powerless losers.
The anti semites on the Left are professors, big name activists, politically influential people (*cough Obama, John Kerry cough*).
So they throw out Paul Nehlen. He’s running against Paul Ryan in the GOP primary. He did this before and lost. That’s putting it mildly. He was beaten like a starlet that said “no” to Hollywood producer.
I had to look up who he is. This is his Twitter feed.
7/ In its hit piece, BuzzFeed appears to channel its feigned outrage at two of my comments. The first is my reference to "Jewish media," which BuzzFeed attempts to portray as "antisemitism" instead of the well-founded observation it is. Let's have a look at the salient details:
I need somebody to help me play him in a game of Risk. When we beat him, hopefully he’ll shoot himself in his basement and then I won’t have to hear about him anymore.
If anybody in the Trump administration reads this blog. I’d like to submit a last minute addition to his SOTU address tonight.
“If there is anything I have learned in the last year as president, it is this. The Democrats treat America the way their donor and buddy Harvey Weinstein treats his star actress. They abuse her and fuck her every which way possible. Then they bad mouth her when she finally gets up the courage to push back against the mistreated.”
London is having a huge spike in gun crime. An increase of 42%. This, improbably, in a city in a nation that has banned hand guns and made gun ownership impossibly difficult.
It seems that the issue is when you have uncontrolled migration from Middle Eastern war zones, people tend to bring stuff from home with them. Stuff like AK-47’s, handguns, and hand grenades.
A country can ban the civilian sale of all the guns they want, people will just walk them into the UK and Sweden from Syria in a backpack.
Maybe now is a good time to note that the Mexican cartels have been using military weapons in their war against the Mexican government.
I’m just thinking that if some Somali can carry an AK into Malmo, it’s just as easy for someone to carry one from Nogales to LA.
I said over there very much the same thing I said here, i.e., Trump isn’t a cause but a symptom. When the public face of the LBGT community became censorious, progressive scolds who seems to enjoy sticking their thumb in the eye of moderate Middle America, there was push back. That push back was part of Trump’s appeal.
Fewer young women are calling themselves “feminists” because that word has become associated with shrieking, blue hair harpies, who wear vagina costumes in public and cry about “the patriarchy.” They don’t want to be associated with that.
If the LGBT community goes down the path where “LGBT” becomes inexorable associated with the worst sort of anti-social debauchery and crybullying over preferred pronouns, it will be rejected as well.
In a nutshell, I don’t care who you have sex with – as long as they are consenting adults – but I hate a radical leftist.
In a rush to prove my point, I was called a homophobe, transphobe, Nazi, fascist, white supremacist/nationalist, and and FOX News watching bigot.
I brought up the problem of Brendan Eich, the co-founder of Mozilla who was fired after a couple of days as CEO for making a $1,000 donation to Prop 8. My point was that there was no evidence that he discriminated in the office. He simply donated money to a political cause he agreed with, based on his Catholic faith. Both his right to donate and his faith are protected by the First Amendment.
The response was that those protections don’t apply to the private sector (true, but still a matter of principle) and that he deserved what he got for his hateful behavior.
To which I said “Being a good Catholic that believes in Catholic doctrine.”
The answer was “Yes.”
This went around and what it came down to is that any Christian or Jew, and theoretically Muslim (but you know how progressives bend the knee to them) who believes that marriage should exist between one man and one woman should be fired for being hateful.
That technically it is illegal to discriminate against someone because of their religion is not an issue, they are not firing you for being a Christian or a Jew, just for believing in ALL the tenants of the faith. You can still work, if you renounce your religious belief in the sin of homosexuality.
This is of course regardless of whether or not you actually did anything discriminatory, it’s simply the thought crime of your beliefs.
Some pigs are more equal than others.
And they wonder why mainstream America is becoming less accepting of gays.
Yep, 12 Strong is just too masculine for these milquetoast limp-dicks.
“As Hollywood begins to navigate the #MeToo landscape,” Tatiana Siegel reported, “one of the first casualties appears to be big-screen erotica. In the wake of the Harvey Weinstein scandal, studios are steering clear of sex.” Alyssa Rosenberg, writing in the Washington Post, hopes that Hollywood’s embarrassed executives are navigating “the end of a very narrow way of thinking about what’s alluring.” Instead of movies that objectify women, she suggests more films that portray sex and sexuality in intelligent ways.
This reckoning is long overdue. And it can be extended to another genre that has distorted how men behave: war movies. Hollywood has shown itself capable of making excellent war movies (think “Three Kings,” “Paths of Glory,” and “The Best Years of Our Lives”), but most are problematic. Some of the biggest war movies of the post-9/11 era don’t just show violence in ways that are often gratuitous and occasionally racist. They model a cliched form of masculinity that veers from simplistic to monstrous.
For instance, you can see Rambo and John Wayne return to life in the latest war blockbuster, “12 Strong,” which was produced by Jerry Bruckheimer, who also brought us “Black Hawk Down.” “12 Strong” is an extravaganza about a Special Forces team that fought the Taliban in Afghanistan in the weeks and months after 9/11. During the movie’s pivotal scene, the leader of the Green Berets, played by Chris Hemsworth (the grievously handsome star of the Thor franchise), decimates a hive of Taliban fighters with his rifle ablaze as he gallops ahead on his fearless horse (yes, he’s riding a horse). In the same way that Hemsworth’s assault weapon goes rat-tat-tat and the bad guys fall like bulleted dominoes, the scene itself checks off one born-in-Hollywood cliché after another: of the rugged gunslinger, the warrior in camo, good versus evil, the modern vanquishing the profane, a man at his fullest.
The US Special Forces that went into Afghanistan fought the Taliban. They rescued women from being raped by Taliban forces. T
The Special Forces are … not like anybody in Hollywood because they all knew and went along with it for the money.
Taliban = raping terrorist = bad guys. Special forces = good guys. It’s not much more complex than that.
Whenever I write about the real-world impact of war movies – and I’ve gone to bat against “American Sniper,” “Zero Dark Thirty” and “13 Hours” — I always get responses along the lines of “Relax, these are just movies. Don’t take them so seriously. They’re harmless.” That’s when it becomes necessary to say that movies can create or reinforce narratives of history and gender that influence what people think and what they do. Boys and men develop their notions of masculinity from a variety of sources that include the films they watch (the extent to which this is true is, of course, open to debate). The time has come for Hollywood to turn away from war movies that, while satisfying to both a studio’s bottom line and a flag-waving concept of patriotism, perpetuate a model of masculinity that does violence to us all.
Rescue the women and children, protect the innocent, kill the terrorists. That’s not toxic. That’s been a man’s duties since the beginning of time.
Somewhere, a long, long time ago, some cave man looked at his son and said:
“Ugh, there is a saber tooth tiger coming this way. The women and children are hiding in the back of the cave. Take this sharpened stick and go kill it before it eats one of us.”
If Ugh didn’t do that, we as a species never would have survived. Over the millennia, their decedents have fought off predators and conquering hordes to protect the women and the children. That is a noble duty of men.
Don’t get me wrong, soldiers often do brave things and shouldn’t be denied credit for it. I’ve reported on the wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia, and Bosnia, so I’ve seen heroism from soldiers of many nationalities, as well as cowardice and abuse. That’s not the issue. What matters is that well into the second decade of our forever war, the combat movies that populate our multiplexes and our minds are devoted to a martial narrative of men-as-terminators that should have been strangled at its birth a long time ago.
Yes, we should all aspire to be John Kerry and bend over backwards to bolster our enemies because he’s sensitive and progressive.
Better yet, let’s not.
It doesn’t have to be this way. The best war film of the last year, “Thank You for Your Service,” based on the nonfiction book by David Finkel, quietly focuses on the troubles of a group of soldiers after they come home from a deployment in Iraq. The film has only two battle scenes, and both are excruciating to watch because their violence is frightening rather than glorious – the opposite of Bruckheimer’s feel-good shoot-’em-ups. The men in “Thank You for Your Service” are struggling with PTSD, painfully coming to the awareness that the combat that gave them such purpose in Iraq has injured their psyches. Nobody looks like Thor in this movie, nobody behaves like Thor, and the John Wayne style of masculinity that these men might have aspired to emulate is shown to be an artificial and harmful construct.
No, Thank You For Your Service was a liberal war movie that shit on the military, America, and patriotism. Liberals love a war movie that makes the military look awful. They get off on their hatred for traditional patriotic values. Talk about a toxic mentality.
“12 Strong” earned nearly twice as much in three days as “Thank You for Your Service” has earned in three months. And the numbers – more than $15 million in ticket sales for “12 Strong” in its first week – are Venmo pennies compared to the box office take of “American Sniper,” the macho movie about Navy SEAL sniper Chris Kyle that has earned more than half a billion dollars since 2014. Who is at fault for the lucrative war chum that Hollywood tosses into our Saturday nights – the movie studios or the movie-goers who love to consume this masculine nonsense?
I think the best explanation of this is to quote General George S. Patton, a man who pissed more testosterone that Maass has in his whole body.
“Americans love a winner. Americans will not tolerate a loser. Americans despise cowards. Americans play to win all of the time. I wouldn’t give a hoot in hell for a man who lost and laughed. That’s why Americans have never lost nor will ever lose a war; for the very idea of losing is hateful to an American.”
Chris Kyle was a winner, the men in 12 Strong were winners, Hollywood making a movie that rubs the idea of how shitty America is to it’s veterans in the face of Middle America is a loser.
I am at this point reminded of a quote, often attributed to George Orwell.
“People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.“
America celebrates those who are ready to do violence on our behalf. Protecting the innocent from those who want to do us harm is a virtue.
Confusing that virtue for a bunch of Hollywood elites abusing their power to take advantage of women is not virtue. It’s evil. So is terrorism.
Engaging in some sort of moral equivocation that makes one the same as the other is toxic idiocy.
American Sniper, Blackhawk Down, and 12 strong are movies for men who love their wives and children, and would put their lives on the line to protect them.
