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Stephen Hawking: "I may not be welcome" in Trump's America
KITV-TV ^ | March 20, 2017 | Judith Vonberg, CNN

Posted on 03/20/2017 11:29:51 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

British scientist Stephen Hawking fears he "may not be welcome" in the United States now that Donald Trump is President.

In an interview with ITV's Good Morning Britain on Monday, Hawking described President Trump's election as "a definite swing to a right-wing" and a "more authoritarian approach."

He was especially critical of the appointment of Scott Pruitt, "a man who does not believe that carbon dioxide causes climate change," as head of the Environmental Protection Agency.

"He should replace Scott Pruitt at the Environment Protection Agency," Hawking told ITV.

"Climate change is one of the great dangers we face, and it's one we can prevent," he said.

"It affects America badly, so tackling it should win votes for [Trump's] second term, God forbid."

He suggested that the appointment of Pruitt, as well as the promise of a border wall and the sanctioning of two oil pipelines, are designed to "satisfy [Trump's] electorate, who are neither liberal nor that well-informed."

"I have many friends and colleagues [in the US] and it is still a place I like and admire in many ways," he said, "but I fear that I may not be welcome."(continued)

(Excerpt) Read more at kitv.com ...


TOPICS: Government; Politics; Science
KEYWORDS: boohoo; climatechange; first100days; globalwarming; globalwarminghoax; hawking; keepowt; trump; trump45; trumpenvironment
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

It’s not Trump’s America you ignorant egghead. It is OUR America. Mr. Trump serves at our pleasure. And WE are well pleased. So take a chill pill, Stephanie.


41 posted on 03/20/2017 11:55:25 AM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts (Good judgement comes from experience. And experience? Well, that comes from poor judgement.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“I may not be welcome” in Trump’s America

Translated from Leftspeak to vernacular English: “I hate Trump’s America”.


42 posted on 03/20/2017 11:56:32 AM PDT by rightwingcrazy (rightwingcrazy)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

This poor guy has ruined science with his brand.


43 posted on 03/20/2017 11:57:17 AM PDT by Theodore R. (Let's not squander the golden opportunity of 2017.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Larry Flynt is sure self-absorbed.


44 posted on 03/20/2017 11:59:12 AM PDT by BookmanTheJanitor
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

He’s delusional. Needs to go out in space and inspect black holes.


45 posted on 03/20/2017 11:59:19 AM PDT by I want the USA back (The media is acting full-on as the Democratic Party's press agency now: Robert Spencer)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Well, it’s not as if Hawking is in any position to jump the fence, so I think he’d be okay.


46 posted on 03/20/2017 12:00:06 PM PDT by Boogieman
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To: traderrob6

I have a friend who is a Field Medalist. All his interpretation of society comes through the prism of math.

He claims that the French doctrine of pre-emption on crime and terror is not an oppression threat, but a great opportunity for demand in research... or something to that effect. I have to look back the quote.


47 posted on 03/20/2017 12:01:56 PM PDT by JudgemAll (Democrats Fed. job-security Whorocracy & hate:hypocrites must be gay like us or be tested/crucified)
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To: Pontiac
theoretical physics? I'll be darn, I'm theoretical about all kinds of things. I'm pretty sure I'm as smart as Hawkings.
48 posted on 03/20/2017 12:02:37 PM PDT by abbastanza
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To: Luircin

There are many people like this - geniuses in their professions, stupid in many other things. I know some of them - my veterinarian is amazing at his work; but his political spoutings are ignorant and hilarious.


49 posted on 03/20/2017 12:03:03 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

"Yeah, yeah, I know, he's the wheelchair dude who invented time."

-PJ

50 posted on 03/20/2017 12:04:14 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too (The 1st Amendment gives the People the right to a free press, not CNN the right to the 1st question.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

See? Now thats the big difference: We won’t keep you out because you choose to believe in fairy tales.

Unlike your brethern who want those who deny the myth of climate change to be stripped of our livlihoods, free speech and freedoms.

That ought to tell you something.


51 posted on 03/20/2017 12:04:34 PM PDT by Adder (Mr. Franklin: We are trying to get the Republic back!)
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To: Luircin
How can a man be so smart and so stupid at the same time?

I have found that to be oddly common place. People can be quite intelligent on one subject, and blithering idiots outside their area of expertise.

52 posted on 03/20/2017 12:04:38 PM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
and a "more authoritarian approach."

I keep seeing this charge by the Left, but I just don't see it. If anything, his conservative agenda will decrease that approach.

53 posted on 03/20/2017 12:05:26 PM PDT by Paradox ("Donald Trump", the biggest Strawman ever created.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

No Stephen, its Obama’s death panels you should be concerned about.


54 posted on 03/20/2017 12:06:28 PM PDT by G Larry (There is no great virtue in bargaining with the Devil)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

So, a return to rule of law is authoritarian...

Genius is often accompanied by idiocy.


55 posted on 03/20/2017 12:07:29 PM PDT by JimRed ( TERM LIMITS, NOW! Building the Wall! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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To: Stephen Hawking

For a "smart" guy.....Your kind of an IDIOT !!!

56 posted on 03/20/2017 12:09:30 PM PDT by HP8753 (Live Free!!!! .............or don't.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
"Climate change is one of the great dangers we face, and it's one we can prevent," he said.

Then why are you not taking China and India to task? (crickets)

57 posted on 03/20/2017 12:09:42 PM PDT by JimRed ( TERM LIMITS, NOW! Building the Wall! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“”Climate change is one of the great dangers we face, and it’s one we can prevent,” he said. “

I guy as smart as Hawking comes up with a statement this idiotic!? Wow. We can’t prevent climate change!


58 posted on 03/20/2017 12:11:29 PM PDT by Castigar
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To: Vic S

It’s not just a record, it blows away the next best by 2 decades. It’s such an extreme amount of time to survive a progressive disease, especially as he was already in a wheelchair decades ago, which indicates a great deal of progression had already occurred by then.

It’s also interesting that, as the Big Bang models of the universe he spent his whole life creating are disintegrating under their inconsistencies, he should now turn his thoughts to politics instead.


59 posted on 03/20/2017 12:11:57 PM PDT by thoughtomator (Purple: the color of sedition)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Have never been impressed by this mans IQ. Well, okay, maybe when I was young and dumb. But he is welcome to visit America anytime he wants. And we will allow him to exhale CO2 while he is here.


60 posted on 03/20/2017 12:21:21 PM PDT by justa-hairyape (The user name is sarcastic. Although at times it may not appear that way.)
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