Asshole of the Year Award 2024

I saw that.
It's an opinion piece by Bethany Blankley, a right wing FOX entertainment and Newsmax contributor "and commentator on Christianity and politics in America". She writes her opinion on various subjects such as:
Trump's Religious Upbringing and Faith Journey Chronicled in New Book (It's a joy to read).

I like to check for facts, not unsupported opinions.

 

It's only subjective until real damage is done, like ignoring the rule of law, abandoning our allies on the battle field, undermining the separation of power, threatening to take over other countries and their interests such as Greenland and the Panama Canal, etc.

 

Let me rephrase your statement so as to eliminate the derogatory word "moron".
"The biggest assholes are those who think that anyone who doesn't have the same beliefs is a moron", becomes;
The biggest assholes are those who think that anyone who doesn't have the same beliefs is not very intelligent or ignorant of scientific facts.

If you believe the Earth is an oblate spheroid and I believe it is flat, there is nothing wrong with you thinking I am not very intelligent or ignorant of scientific facts (or in common parlance a moron); as the objective fact is that the Earth is an oblate spheroid.

However, if you believe that blueberry Pop-Tarts taste the best and I insist that cinnamon Pop-Tarts taste the best and therefore you think that I am not very intelligent or ignorant of scientific facts (or in common parlance a moron); it would be wrong for you to think that I am not very intelligent or ignorant of scientific facts (or in common parlance a moron); as which Pop-Tart tastes the best is subjective, not objective.

 

Maybe this will help to explain it GregS"

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THIS WAS ON A FRIEND’S PAGE: An anguished question from a Trump supporter: ‘Why do liberals think Trump supporters are stupid?’

THE SERIOUS ANSWER: Here’s what https://www.usatoday.com/.../trump-university.../502387002/)

That when you saw a man who had made it his business practice to stiff his creditors, you said, "Okay." (https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-hotel-paid-millions...)

That when you heard him proudly brag about his own history of sexual abuse, you said, "No problem." (https://abcnews.go.com/.../list-trumps-accusers.../story...)

That when he made up stories about seeing Muslim-Americans in the thousands cheering the destruction of the World Trade Center, you said, "Not an issue." (https://www.washingtonpost.com/.../donald-trumps.../)

That when you saw him brag that he could shoot a man on Fifth Avenue and you wouldn't care, you exclaimed, "He sure knows me." (https://www.usatoday.com/.../president-donald.../4073405002/)

That when you heard him relating a story of an elderly guest of his country club, an 80-year old man, who fell off a stage and hit his head, to Trump replied: “‘Oh my God, that’s disgusting,’ and I turned away. I couldn’t—you know, he was right in front of me, and I turned away. I didn’t want to touch him. He was bleeding all over the place. And I felt terrible, because it was a beautiful white marble floor, and now it had changed color. Became very red.” You said, "That's cool!" (Donald Trump Shared a Hilarious Story About Not Wanting to Help a Dying Man)

That when you saw him mock the disabled, you thought it was the funniest thing you ever saw. (https://www.nbcnews.com/.../donald-trump-criticized-after...)

That when you heard him brag that he doesn't read books, you said, "Well, who has time?" (https://www.theatlantic.com/.../americas-first.../549794/)

That when the Central Park Five were compensated as innocent men convicted of a crime they didn't commit, and he angrily said that they should still be in prison, you said, "That makes sense." (https://www.usatoday.com/.../what-trump-has.../1501321001/)

That when you heard him tell his supporters to beat up protesters and that he would hire attorneys, you thought, "Yes!" (https://www.latimes.com/.../la-na-trump-campaign-protests...)

That when you heard him tell one rally to confiscate a man's coat before throwing him out into the freezing cold, you said, "What a great guy!" (https://www.independent.co.uk/.../donald-trump-orders...)

That you have watched the parade of neo-Nazis and white supremacists with whom he curries favor, while refusing to condemn outright Nazis, and you have said, "Thumbs up!" (https://www.theatlantic.com/.../why-cant-trump.../567320/)

That you hear him unable to talk to foreign dignitaries without insulting their countries and demanding that they praise his electoral win, you said, "That's the way I want my President to be." (https://www.huffpost.com/.../trump-insult-foreign...)

That you have watched him remove expertise from all layers of government in favor of people who make money off of eliminating protections in the industries they're supposed to be regulating and you have said, "What a genius!" (https://www.politico.com/.../138-trump-policy-changes...)

That you have heard him continue to profit from his businesses, in part by leveraging his position as President, to the point of overcharging the Secret Service for space in the properties he owns, and you have said, "That's smart!" (https://www.usnews.com/.../how-is-donald-trump-profiting...)

That you have heard him say that it was difficult to help Puerto Rico because it was in the middle of water and you have said, "That makes sense." (https://www.washingtonpost.com/.../the-very-big-ocean.../)

That you have seen him start fights with every country from Canada to New Zealand while praising Russia and quote, "falling in love" with the dictator of North Korea, and you have said, "That's statesmanship!" (https://www.cnn.com/.../donald-trump-dictators.../index.html)

That Trump separated children from their families and put them in cages, managed to lose track of 1500 kids, has opened a tent city incarceration camp in the desert in Texas - he explains that they’re just “animals” - and you say, “Well, OK then.” (https://www.nbcnews.com/.../more-5-400-children-split...)

That you have witnessed all the thousand and one other manifestations of corruption and low moral character and outright animalistic rudeness and contempt for you, the working American voter, and you still show up grinning and wearing your MAGA hats and threatening to beat up anybody who says otherwise. (https://www.americanprogress.org/.../confronting-cost.../)

What you don't get, Trump supporters, is that our succumbing to frustration and shaking our heads, thinking of you as stupid, may very well be wrong and unhelpful, but it's also...hear me...charitable.
Because if you're NOT stupid, we must turn to other explanations, and most of them are less flattering. (My bold)
- Adam-Troy Castro

 

In science facts are the best current explanation for what we observe.
When a better explanation comes along...the facts change.
Dogma is when facts don't change.

In 1958 recorded CO2 levels in the atmosphere showed a steady rise in CO2 levels.
In the sixties computers were used to refine the current knowledge and the models showed that the rise in CO2 could produce a warming of 3.6 degrees F in the next century.
In the seventies it was found that from 1940 to1970 the Earth had cooled rather than warmed due to a sudden rise in the use of aerosol pollutants. The media dubbed this another Ice Age. Aerosol pollutants were banned and the temperature resumed rising.

The summer of 1988 was the hottest on record...it has since been surpassed.


It is erroneous to claim that scientific facts change because many scientists follow the money.
Science facts change because we gain new knowledge of how the universe works.