Prickly City by Scott Stantis for July 20, 2020

Well, science didn’t actually get us trump.

He just denies it.

This just in. Dr. Fauci says that breathing is essential to life. Democratic governors are going to issue orders requiring people to breathe. Fight for your liberty. Resist the order.

Scott, it was NOT “science” by itself.

If you remember, it was also Leadership from the president, which also included layers of bureaucracy and engineering below him, AND tax dollars, AND the will of the American people, which was guided by that leadership.

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TODAY, we have The Messiah, who is incapable of supplying leadership, selecting competent people, delegating, directing resources to solve problems, or even accepting that scientists know more about their specialties than he does.

Being a Stable Genius and all.

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NOW, we are in a war with an invisible enemy. Trump, The Messiah, is in charge.

What does he command?

Forget about the virus!

Invade Portland and beat the hell out of protestors until they give up their freedom.

Dominate the battlefield.

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#TraitorTrump

No, the GOP gave us Trump with decades of propaganda how government can’t accomplish anything and only the individual counts.

A better comparison would be WWII, when Americans were willing to sacrifice all sorts of things in a common cause to defeat a common enemy.

Can you imagine how these people would react when they rationed meat? Under a Democratic President, no less?

Now, you don’t have to be a Democrat to be their enemy. Anyone who disagrees with Trump is declared the enemy. If you’re a Republican, you’re a RINO. If you’re a scientist, you’re part of the “Deep State,” and utterly evil. Because you’re a professional who does his job and doesn’t lie.

In retrospect, the Access Hollywood video (Grab them by the *) foreshadowed the degree to which the right was willing to surrender its remaining principles and enable many of Trump’s worst impulses.

So it should not have come as a surprise when the GOP stuck with Trump as he became embroiled in a growing series of scandals, fired the FBI director, and tried to obstruct the special counsel’s investigation into his conduct.

Nor should it have come as a surprise when evangelical Christian leaders gave the president a pass on reports he had an affair with a porn star and paid her hush money.

They were merely reprising the moral compromises they had made during the campaign.

The right’s rolling acquiescence to Trump’s hostile takeover also foreshadowed the metamorphosis of the conservative movement on issues ranging from personal character and public ethics to fiscal conservatism, crony capitalism, free trade, immigration, global leadership, and human rights.

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It is Trump’s party now, marked not only by the GOP Congress’s rituals of sycophantic abasement but also by poll numbers suggesting the degree to which the conservative base has made itself over in Trump’s image.

In February 2018, in the wake of the passage of tax reform, 90 percent of Republican voters told Gallup pollsters they approved of Trump’s performance.

The approval of GOP voters seemed to extend beyond his policies to his personal qualities as well.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/weekly-standard/how-the-gop-became-trumps-party

Same one explain to me, which leader basically shut NASA down?

Yesterday was an all to fleeting example of what this board could be, today, sadly is the reality of what it is.

Actually, if you get Commander Roger Ramjet from the Space Force to recommend the mask, Trump might listen.

Stantis needs to stay here because this is onus of our national problems.

A reminder of what can happen when we all work together, and what can happen when we do not.

We all know the so-called moon landing never happened, right? It was all staged for TV in a secret studio. Just like the earth is a globe – pure hoax. Everybody knows that, right? All I want to know is when will my supermarket get the tin-foil back – I’m running out of hats! /s

Speaking of Weird Science….

Does anyone remember when Dubya said we were in danger from human-animal hybrids? What was with that, anyhoo?

Sadly, too many people gladly turn away from science and towards the fantasies that they’d rather hear…

I thought that flag had M TV on it.

And a resurgence of flat-earthers.

Once the premier nation in the world, today sliding into 3rd world status… still recoverable, but going to take a LOT of work, and somehow get the “knownothings” out of political office.

Someone will have to explain to me what manner of anything that Science has to do with the character being portrayed (yes, we all know who) in the second panel. Maybe it’s \Science…

Bush lite wanted to shut down the Hubble Space Telescope and transfer the savings toward going to Mars. That idea didn’t go down well with HST lovers.