… or until his Orangeness gets his ass impeached.
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Politics for dummies; or fuck everything
Politics for dummies; or the yuge cyber!
Roger Waters: Trump Eres Un Pendejo
This is what the “leader of the free world” has said
A very NSFW photo series featuring quotes President-elect Donald Trump has said about women has gone viral on Tumblr. Aria Watson, an 18-year-old student at Clatsop Community College in Oregon, told BuzzFeed News she created the series, titled “#SignedByTrump,” for her final project in her Introduction to Photography class. “The election was going on at the time, and I felt very strongly about the candidates and their views, so I decided to mix my political opinions with my photography,” she said. Watson said she posted her photos on Facebook and Instagram but the photos were removed. She then posted her photos to her Tumblr, where the post gained more than 50,000 notes in a day. It has since received almost 100,000 notes. She said she kept the models anonymous because the viewer can then picture the people however they want. She added that the models are friends and family, and that one photo is a self-portrait.
“Over the past few days, I’ve gotten messages that have brought me to tears,” she said. “To everyone who has supported me and “#SignedByTrump,” don’t let anyone silence you. Don’t be afraid to speak up about what you are passionate about. I don’t know why Donald Trump is in office, or how this even happened, but he is. What we need more than ever is to come together. We are stronger together,” she said.
Take back your huddled masses and push off
Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,
With conquering limbs astride from land to land;
Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand
A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame
Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name
Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand
Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command
The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.“Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!” cries she
With silent lips. “Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”
Who’se line is it, anyway?
Obama-Biden bromance
Trump Vs Science
Trump has indicated little respect for the findings of science. He has openly repeated the long and frequently debunked suggestion that vaccines can induce autism. He’s said that the climate consensus generated by the international scientific community is little more than a plot by the Chinese to hamper other economies. His science policy plans, where they exist, completely reflect this disdain. For energy, he plans to do the exact opposite of what would be required to address climate change by lifting restrictions on the production of shale, oil, natural gas and clean coal, and he plans to seek a wholesale culling of federal regulation regardless of whether there’s a scientific basis for the rules. He has also said that wind farms are “disgusting looking” and claimed they’re “bad for people’s health” which there is no evidence for.
The new Vice President also has some questionable views on science. It could be said that Mike Pence’s conservative and religious views have coloured his perceptions of science. In 2009, he wrote that embryonic stem cell research is “obsolete” and has claimed that smoking doesn’t cause cancer. He’s a proponent of guy conversion therapy (cure the gay away), which is ineffective and illegal in several states. He also believes that creationism is a legitimate scientific theory.
It’s now being murmured that Ben Carson, the man who shattered the stereotype that brain surgeons were intelligent, has been put forward as Education Secretary. Carson is a young Earth creationist and adheres to the idea that the Earth is somewhere between 6,000 and 10,000 years old, and that evolutionary biology is essentially hocus pocus. He is on record stating that the Big Bang is a fairy tale. He has previously spoken out against free college education, and also once claimed that the Biblical figure Joseph built Egypt’s Great Pyramids in order to store grain and is under the impression that scientists believe that aliens built them.