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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
If I wanted to know about physics I'd ask this gentleman. On anything else? Not so much.

These days I have doubts as to whether his translators are conveying Hawking's thoughts, or injecting their own.

21 posted on 03/20/2017 11:42:55 AM PDT by The Sons of Liberty (Send 0bama and the Clintons to a Black Site IMMEDIATELY for rendition on charges of TREASON!)
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To: JudgemAll
No one is denying science, we are denying when government zoning and eminent domain comes in lieu of a farmer’s knowledge of the land, period

BINGO!

22 posted on 03/20/2017 11:43:01 AM PDT by Fiddlstix (Warning! This Is A Subliminal Tagline! Read it at your own risk!(Presented by TagLines R US))
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Hawking is a puppet that gets its voice from a computer. If he is so smart, why cant he make his computer not sound like a computer?


23 posted on 03/20/2017 11:44:10 AM PDT by Delta 21 (The minority demands NOTHING !)
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To: All

Dear Prof Stupid: In Obama’s America, a disabled “liability” like you would have been killed in the womb...kindly shut your mouth...er, well, you know what I mean...


24 posted on 03/20/2017 11:44:12 AM PDT by Maverick68
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Oh brother.

He’ll have to share space on the victim wagon with Khazir Khan and his dead son who would supposedly (according to his father) not be welcome here if he were alive.


25 posted on 03/20/2017 11:45:13 AM PDT by Lorianne
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To: JudgemAll

Genius often carries with it a definitive lack of common sense.


26 posted on 03/20/2017 11:46:34 AM PDT by traderrob6
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Hawking is way past his expiration date.


27 posted on 03/20/2017 11:46:50 AM PDT by TexasCruzin (Trump is the man. #TrumpPence16)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Why wouldn’t a fellow adulterer be welcomed?


28 posted on 03/20/2017 11:47:33 AM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Make all future spacecraft handicap accessible.

Problem solved.


29 posted on 03/20/2017 11:47:38 AM PDT by Bratch ("The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." - Edmund Burke)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Yahoo is using this poor soul to advertize for a pill to enhance mental abiliy. He may be smart, but in everything that I read that he has said, I think not so much.


30 posted on 03/20/2017 11:47:38 AM PDT by maxwellsmart_agent (EEe)
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To: Pontiac

Hawking has no ability to understand society, culture, or government, much less religion or politics. The ability to carry obtuse abstractions to the Nth power does not equate with being able to understand human affairs. He may be a genius at math but he is a functional illiterate in the area of human dignity, as are all liberal globalist leftists.


31 posted on 03/20/2017 11:48:02 AM PDT by Louis Foxwell (The Left has the temperament of a squealing pig.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

No problem Steve-o. The NAZI’s are out of power now.


32 posted on 03/20/2017 11:49:09 AM PDT by <1/1,000,000th%
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

A more authoritarian approach? You mean like in Europe where you can be thrown into jail for saying something negative about a certain religion?

You might be a very smart man in your field, Mr. Hawking, but beyond that point, you don’t know what you are talking about.


33 posted on 03/20/2017 11:49:27 AM PDT by Fresh Wind (Hillary: Go to jail. Go directly to jail. Do not pass GO. Do not collect 2 billion dollars.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Oh, he’d be welcome here; he’s the world’s number one expert at milking that old sympathy teat.


34 posted on 03/20/2017 11:49:51 AM PDT by LibWhacker
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Thank you for sharing that with us.


35 posted on 03/20/2017 11:50:00 AM PDT by gogeo (When your life is based on a false premise...you are indeed insane.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

For a smart guy, that was a pretty stupid comment.

You MAY very well be welcome.


36 posted on 03/20/2017 11:50:17 AM PDT by Mr. K (***THERE IS NO CONSEQUENCE OF OBAMACARE REPEAL THAT IS WORSE THAN KEEPING IT ONE MORE DAY***)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Stephen Hawking does not look like a man who can change the sun’s activity. Nor the movements of asteroids or rumblings in the core of the earth. Sure, we’ll let him in, but he’s a little full of himself if he thinks he can change the universe.


37 posted on 03/20/2017 11:50:47 AM PDT by Yaelle
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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.


38 posted on 03/20/2017 11:52:28 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

Show me the science, nerd.

You know, hypothesis, experiment, that sort of thing.


39 posted on 03/20/2017 11:52:35 AM PDT by Dr.Deth
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Oh, you're fine, Steve, we suffer fools gladly around here.

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

No, Steve, humans cannot prevent climate change. Anyone who thinks we can either has a massive God complex or doesn't know what the hell he's talking about. Or both.

40 posted on 03/20/2017 11:53:23 AM PDT by Billthedrill
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