- Scott Pelley fired: the destruction of 60 Minutes;
- David Brin on the dismantling of the ocean monitoring system;
- Several posts about how Trump and his administration are simply in it for the money;
- And several posts about conservative morality: demons, hating homosexuality, approving abusive parents, hating Islam, admiring fascism, and the dumb plan to restrict international flights from blue-city airports.
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Try to take a bigger view. There are certain broad categories all these items fit into.
— Destruction, Tear-Downs, Cancellations —
Another shoe drops.
- NY Times, yesterday: CBS News Fires Scott Pelley of ‘60 Minutes’, subtitled “Mr. Pelley, a former ‘CBS Evening News’ anchor, was ousted after months of tensions between staff and Bari Weiss, the network’s editor in chief.”
- CNN, updated today: Scott Pelley fired by CBS after ‘60 Minutes’ clash with management
- Hollywood Reporter, yesterday: Scott Pelley Fired From ‘60 Minutes’ After Ripping New Leadership in Tense Meeting, subtitled “The veteran correspondent and former ‘CBS Evening News’ anchor had called out Bari Weiss and new ’60’ EP Nick Bilton in a meeting Monday.”
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- FB: David Brin on the dismantling of the ocean monitoring system.
- “Pure vandalism. Climate change, and all the associated effects, don’t exist if we destroy the data. The barbarians are inside the gate. Trump administration to dismantle ocean monitoring system. They already savaged NASA science (to fund the insane Artemis moondoggle), especially Earth atmosphere science. But it’s not just Climate. It’s ALL science and all fact professions who are the main obstacle vs restoration of 6000 years of filthy feudalism.”
— In it for the money —
NY Times, opinion by Thomas L. Friedman, yesterday: Trump Has Failed as Commander in Chief
With each passing month of his presidency, Donald Trump behaves more like America’s commander in thief than its commander in chief.
With the example of that $1.776 billion slush fund. And protection fro him and his family from tax audits.
Also:
- JMG, today (from Washington Post): Trump Diverts $90M In Natl Park Funds For His Projects
- JMG, today (from Bloomberg): SpaceX IPO To Further Enrich Multiple WH Officials
- NY Times, opinion by Clive Irving, today: What Elon Musk Really Wants [gift link]
- “Forget all of Elon Musk’s talk of heading to the moon and Mars, or ‘extending the light of consciousness to the stars.’ The real reason for his forthcoming initial public offering — very likely to be the largest ever, opening up a small piece of SpaceX to the stock market — is far more mercenary.”
(There *are* idealistic people in the world, but they’re not conservatives.)
— Conservative morality is superstitious cave-man tribalism —
- JMG today (from Christian Post): Vatican’s Chief Exorcist In DC: UFOs Are “Demonic”
- We know UFOs are demons because an *exorcist* has told us so!
- Another example of how the religious interpret everything new in the world in terms of ancient stories by sheep-herders.
- JMG, today (from Newsweek): Rep. Andy Ogles Blames Homophobic Post On Staffer
- He posted “homosexuality has no place in America” and then withdrew it after feedback even from Republicans. Note the comments in the JMG post, from supporters defending his original statement.
- Friendly Atheist, Hemant Mehta, today: A Connecticut law protects kids from abusive homeschooling parents. Republicans opposed it., subtitled “A modest homeschooling oversight law aimed at preventing abuse has sparked outrage from conservatives and Christian advocacy groups”
- Because… Christian conservatives *want* to be able to abuse their children?
- Right Wing Watch, Kyle Mantyla, yesterday: Micah Beckwith Says Hating Islam Is A ‘Winning Issue’ For Republicans
- So followers of one religion hate followers of another religion. Pure tribalism.
- Salon, Amanda Marcotte, today: MAGA fails to conquer arts and music, subtitled “Trump’s losses at the Kennedy Center and Freedom 250 follow Turning Point USA’s Super Bowl humiliation”
- I’ve noted this before. Conservatives and MAGA has very basic tastes. Trump has never invited great artists to the White House, as all previously presidents have done. Trump’s idea of culture is Kid Rock.
- JMG, today: Fuentes Hails Spencer Pratt: We Need A Fascist Dictator To Take Over Blue Cities And “Murder All The Criminals”
- Once again — religious conservatives don’t believe in principles, such as those in the US Constitution. They are fundamentally small-minded people afraid of anyone unlike themselves.
- Many stories about this. I’ll pick this one.
- The Hill, yesterday: Mullin faces backlash over ‘naive or dumb’ plan to pull CBP from blue-city airports
- Trump’s current Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin suggested that the government might restrict international airline flights from landing in airports in Blue States.
- Does he not realize that all big cities in the US are blue? Even in states that are otherwise red? What other international airports are there?
- This is why, over and over, I can’t help but observe that conservatives are dumb, uninformed, or dimwits. Or merely selfish.
