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Stephen Hawking Calls Trump A 'Demagogue' Who Appeals 'To The Lowest Common Denominator' (go.com)
An anonymous reader writes: British astrophysicist Stephen Hawking told ITV's morning show that Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican Party candidate for U.S. president, "is a demagogue who seems to appeal to the lowest common denominator." He said, "Gone are the days we could stand on our own against the world. We need to be part of a larger group of nations, both for our security and our trade." ABC News writes, "Stephen Hawking understands the workings of the universe -- but says he cannot fathom the popularity of Donald Trump. He went on to say that British voters should keep the United Kingdom in the European Union in a June 23 referendum, saying the EU provides essential support for British scientific research as well as its economy and security.
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Look, say whatever you want about any politician or any issue. But you don't make an argument like this...
Saying "gone are the days when you can operate as a singular nation" needs to be explained. First, you'd have to say that anyone is actually suggesting such a thing. Second, whether people are doing that or not doesn't mean that is or is not a good or reasonable idea.
Meh.
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The more people like him insult the people that support politicians like Trump, the more effort they'll put into making sure their candidate gets elected.
Well, as a non American i can confidently say that The Daily Show was probably the only source of news in the USA that even comes close to the amount we get out here in the world about the US.
Your domestic news services are truly terrible. It should give you pause that the best news source for you is on a comedy channel.
I recently spent a month in DC and the absolute shit that passes for news channels there boggles the mind. Now if you'll excuse me I want to get back to Kardashian Nazi UFO Junk Hunters Secret Superweapon Fashion Guide to the Bible.
So i should vote for the guy who i disagree with but know he's lying?
So you should vote for the woman you agree with even though you know SHE is lying?
That is better why again?
In the end you are voting for a woman who fundamentally is the ultimate tie-in to every status quo between government and business insider dealing that has existed for decades. Or you vote for the person who is part of none of that existing government/business wheel of fortune.
Or you can vote for the woman the press have an inherent interest in covering for and let her continue with behind-doers deals with business and governments all over the globe. Or you can vote for the person who the press will spend four yours putting every action under a microscope.
Think about what RESULTS you want, and vote for that. Not for what the person says they will or will not do.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
I find it hilarious how hypocritical you are.
You condemn President Trump for supposedly using "insults", yet we see your comment riddled with insults and attacks directed at President Trump!
If I called Trump an orange buffoon that would be insulting him.
Saying his success come from "ignorant ideas, insults, and conspiracy theories" is just harsh criticism.
I may be wrong in my criticism, but I don't think it's properly classified as an insult.
You ridicule President Trump for allegedly having "ignorant ideas", yet we see so much intolerance, anger, wrath and dislike displayed by you!
Again not hypocrisy. Intolerance, anger, wrath and dislike are often motives for spreading ignorant ideas, but you can have those qualities without being ignorant.
And I only really agree with "dislike", I don't think intolerance, anger, or wrath really motivate me with Trump.
You rail on about "conspiracy theories", yet you're the one projecting this weird notion of President Trump seeing success because of "ignorant ideas, insults, and conspiracy theories", rather than just admitting that he's successful because he has widespread public support!
It would be very comical, were it not for the fact that you're serious!
I was positing the reason for his public support... and you don't seem to understand what a conspiracy theory is.
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Perhaps that is exactly WHY people want to vote for him, voters are beyond tired of the status-quo, politics-as-usual, cookie-cutter politicians, and party hard-liners. They are looking for someone to shake up things.
Is it risky? Perhaps. But without risk, there can be no real gain, either.
I think Trump is a mess. But we will be offered only two choices come November, so look at the other choice. Yeesh. The bigger problem is that we desperately need to reform the election process and bring in IRV http://fairvote.org/ but we live in the here-and-now.
Just about everyone I know, including myself, want better choices.... but that time is over now. And even if it seems reckless to vote for Trump, remember that 1) it is only the President (Congress has just as much power) 2) it is only for 4 years 3) we have a set of checks-and-balances.
As for Hawking? I have a great deal of respect for him as a scientist and physicist.... but he should stick to what he knows. America is not his country and his field is not politics, economics, sociology, or management.
This election is all about a couple of guys trying to kick out the political establishment. If Trump or Sanders got elected, a lot of folks living on Capitol Hill would be selling their houses. But Sanders doesn't have a chance, given Hillary's super delegates. Here's a tip for an inspiring journalist: After Hillary wins, take a look at where the super delegates and their families and friends are working. Plush government jobs.
If you don't like the Democratic [sic] Party and their rules on choosing a presidential candidate . . . well tough shit for you. It's their Party, and they can cry if they want to. The Democrats are like the kid on the block who has a real leather football and says, "It's my ball, and we play by my rules!"
Go ahead . . . vote for Hillary . . . you have no other choice.
On the Republican side of the bench . . . their Establishment is not so concerned that Trump is batshit crazy, but because he would toss out a bunch of Capitol Hill folks, as well. Yes, Trump will say it, and yes you are fired.
For all the shit they take here . . . I see the Millennials as a voice that will "just say no" to the politics as it is today.
Schroedinger's Brexit: The UK is both in and out of the EU at the same time!
Total fucking clickbait publicity. I expect it will be blasted all over Facebook as more echo chamber noise for people opposed to Trump.
People *crave* the values reinforcement of having their own little constellation of important voices (usually celebrities) telling them that their choices are the right ones. The stand-up comedians who issue zingers, the out of context historical quotes from revered figures, the out-of-their-field intellectuals, the shamanic Native American, etc.
The stand-up comedians are the ones I don't get -- somebody whose idea of funny is a stream of profanity and sexual innuedno is someone whose ideas on politics matters?
The thing I can't quite figure out is if these people are just so suggestible that they'll let these "opinion leaders" tell them what to believe or if they just have so little confidence in their own decisions they need all the reinforcement they can get. Maybe both. Or maybe it's just herd mentality and they just don't want to somehow be out of the "in" crowd.
Trump will destroy your country. There will be riots. If he deports eleven million people, there will be very big riots. Cities will burn. If he tries to get Mexico to build a wall, the international community will turn their backs, Mexico won't do it (of course), and more cities will burn. America couldn't last forever of course, nowhere does, so this is a perfectly normal turn of events.
But mark my words. If he wins, he will destroy you.
And people are no longer making babies because of the shitty socio-economic system that deprives them of the time, resources and willingness to procreate. Fortunately, there's immigrants who are providing fresh manpower to wipe the European's arses when they get old and discover that their iPad retina pros have no app for that.
The last time European nation-states (another relatively recent notion) started raising barbed wire around their borders and brainwashing their citizens about how better and unique and ancient and God-chosen their own culture was, the final results were some 70 million people dead (of their own), thousands of years of history in rubbles, and a country solely made of immigrants to become by far the biggest cultural, political and military power, in the world and possibly in history.
Pretty please! Im Italian and I've spent the last 20 years getting lectured and laughed at because Berlusconi. Now you're on the brink of electing a person so special and unique that Berlusconi is Mother Teresa in comparison. I'll be lighting a candle if you do. Sincerely yours.
My parents are pretty right wing but it was refreshing to hear them during the primaries say how horrid Trump was. Unfortunately, now that he's the nominee he's somehow turned into the only one who can save this country and I'm "brainwashed" (my father's exact words) for seeing Trump as dangerous. When I brought up stuff like him retweeting stuff from neonazi's, my father doubled down on insisting that this was all lies concocted by the media.
The really dangerous thing about Trump is how vague he is - even moreso than your run of the mill politician. Trump supporters pick what they like from Trump's conflicting statements, ignore the rest, and insist that their vision if Trump is who would be President if he was elected. In truth, though, nobody knows just what Trump would be like in the Oval Office. I don't even think Trump knows. The best case scenario is bad, though, and I shudder to think of the worst case scenario.
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nation-states (another relatively recent notion) started raising barbed wire around their borders and brainwashing their citizens about how better and unique and ancient and God-chosen their own culture was, the final results were some 70 million people dead (of their own),
The figure was 6 million Jews, then 4 million, and now historians say probably 1.5 million is a better number, the Red Cross released a report (suppressed for 70 years) saying around 125 thousand died in the camps, but you go to jail if you question it in some politically oppressed places.
thousands of years of history in rubbles, and a country solely made of immigrants to become by far the biggest cultural, political and military power, in the world and possibly in history.
Wait, the Zionists declared war on Germany before the war started and began boycotting to starve Germany to death. Japan was also illegally blockaded in a similar attempt to starve them. That's why they joined with Germany in the fight against the private centralized bankers who are now controlling the world. Zionists won the war while destroying the west and their cultural artifacts, all according to plan. So your concern is bogus. That's how Israel was created: For "God's Chosen People" who have high walls and barbed wire fences and require DNA tests for citizenship. You're not saying Israel should tear down their borders and interbreed with Muslims are you? See how silly you sound to me? You just don't know your history. I bet you think the US Civil war was over slavery... it wasn't. Like the American Revolutionary War, and all other wars, it was a Banker War.
I say, "What's good enough for Israel is good enough for America".
Only historically ignorant people turn a blind eye on the fact that Germany was the last region to form into a nation state and get on the track to becoming a super power, and was thus targeted for war and suppression by the established super powers and the international banking cartel that has them by the balls. Your rewriting of history is stupid since you're dooming yourself to repeating it.