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hatrack

(59,587 posts)
Mon Jan 15, 2018, 04:03 PM Jan 2018

Shitstain's NASA Nominee Not Just Unqualified, But Also Gay-Bashing Climate Liar And All-Round Fool

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Bridenstine is a former combat pilot who once worked at a space museum. That’s not even a fraction of what should be required for a NASA administrator, but at least he can probably point in the direction of space — you can’t say that of DeVos. But that’s the best part of his resume.

His genuinely extreme social views include:

He railed against the 2013 Supreme Court decision declaring same-sex marriage constitutional. "The court’s decision was a disappointment not only because it is contrary to millennia of human experience," he said, "but also because it is clearly contrary to the choice of the people as expressed in a constitutionally valid process.”

He also attacked the Boy Scouts for allowing gay members, which he presented as moral relativism that failed to recognize gay as “wrong.” And he supported anti-transgender “bathroom bills.”

And for a hate-cherry on top, he made some of his rants about the evils of gay people on the radio show of Frank Gaffney. Gaffney’s show isn’t just conservative, it’s a Christian-identity, white nationalist playground that the Southern Poverty Law Center has labeled as part of a hate group.

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And there are other problems that make Bridenstine particularly unsuited to NASA.

He reeled off this string of climate denial myths on the House floor in 2013:

global temperatures stopped rising 10 years ago. Global temperature changes, when they exist, correlate with Sun output and ocean cycles. During the Medieval Warm Period from 800 to 1300 A.D.—long before cars, power plants, or the Industrial Revolution—temperatures were warmer than today.

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https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/1/15/1732975/-Trump-s-unqualified-choice-to-be-NASA-chief-runs-into-turbulence

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Shitstain's NASA Nominee Not Just Unqualified, But Also Gay-Bashing Climate Liar And All-Round Fool (Original Post) hatrack Jan 2018 OP
Absolutely appalling Ohiogal Jan 2018 #1
They can't get competent people any more because no reputable person The Velveteen Ocelot Jan 2018 #2
He is bought and paid for by oil and gas too. redstatebluegirl Jan 2018 #3
USA! USA!! USA!!! longship Jan 2018 #4
"but also because it is clearly contrary to the choice of the people as expressed... bitterross Jan 2018 #5

Ohiogal

(32,000 posts)
1. Absolutely appalling
Mon Jan 15, 2018, 04:06 PM
Jan 2018

The brilliant, hard working, and dedicated scientists working at NASA deserve better than this shit

The Velveteen Ocelot

(115,704 posts)
2. They can't get competent people any more because no reputable person
Mon Jan 15, 2018, 04:08 PM
Jan 2018

wants to work for them. So they have to scrape the bottom of the wingnut barrel.

longship

(40,416 posts)
4. USA! USA!! USA!!!
Mon Jan 15, 2018, 05:04 PM
Jan 2018

The new shithole backwater of the planet.

Yell it with me everybody!

USA!!!

Drumpf! Making America great again!!!


 

bitterross

(4,066 posts)
5. "but also because it is clearly contrary to the choice of the people as expressed...
Mon Jan 15, 2018, 05:18 PM
Jan 2018

"but also because it is clearly contrary to the choice of the people as expressed in a constitutionally valid process.”

These idiots don't seem to get that the Supreme Court overruling the tyranny of the majority is actually a Constitutionally Valid Process. One that the founders put in place for just that reason. Just because a public ballot was held to enshrine discrimination doesn't make it any less awful than when legislatures in the states passed segregation laws and Jim Crow laws.

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