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Physicist Stephen Hawking bewildered by Trump
Politico ^ | 30th May, 2016 | Louis Nelson

Posted on 05/30/2016 6:04:21 PM PDT by BurgerAndFries

For Stephen Hawking, the world-renowned expert in theoretical physics and cosmology, the success of Donald Trump’s presidential campaign is a mystery.

Hawking called Trump "a demagogue who seems to appeal to the lowest common denominator,” during an appearance on the United Kingdom’s ITV network.

In addition to his scientific work, Hawking, who has a slow-progressing form of ALS, is a vocal advocate for individuals with disabilities. Trump drew criticism late last year on the campaign trail when he appeared to mock a New York Times reporter with a disability at a rally in South Carolina. Trump later denied mocking the reporter and said he had never met him.

During the same television appearance, Hawking urged British voters to vote in favor of keeping the U.K. in the European Union. The much-discussed “Brexit” vote is scheduled for June 23 and a vote to leave the EU would cost Great Britain in terms of its economy, national security and scientific research.

"Gone are the days we could stand on our own against the world,” he said. “We need to be part of a larger group of nations, both for our security and our trade."


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
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To: BurgerAndFries
Hawking is an Israel-hating douche.

Stephen Hawking, BDS, and Why Geniuses Can Be Dumb

61 posted on 05/30/2016 7:12:38 PM PDT by montag813
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To: ghosthost

He might be smart in his field of expertise, which clearly is NOT elections, politics or economy.


62 posted on 05/30/2016 7:15:58 PM PDT by Innovative ("Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing." -- Vince Lombardi)
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To: BurgerAndFries

I have a couple of “his” books and they are pretty good; he had a lot of help from others getting them ready for publication. Hawking is also now a global warming alarmist. His shocking appearance makes him look like his mental capacity is severely limited, but he still knows which side of the pop science toast his bread is buttered on. He has morphed into more weird looking Bill Nye the science guy at this point than respected physicist. His area of expertise is very narrow and his opinion on Trump is likely less informed than that of your garden variety leftist movie star.


63 posted on 05/30/2016 7:16:22 PM PDT by fireman15 (The USA will be toast if the Democrats are able to take the Presidency in 2016)
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To: BurgerAndFries

“Gone are the days we could stand on our own against the world,” he said. “We need to be part of a larger group of nations, both for our security and our trade.”

More and more propaganda for a One World Government.


64 posted on 05/30/2016 7:16:31 PM PDT by Carthego delenda est
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To: BurgerAndFries

The ruling class thinks they’re our betters. Put a sock in it, Steven.


65 posted on 05/30/2016 7:19:37 PM PDT by Ciexyz ("You know who gets hurt? The people who worked hard, lived frugally, and saved their money."- Trump)
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To: BurgerAndFries

People who are superb at one thing are often terrible at everything else.


66 posted on 05/30/2016 7:23:19 PM PDT by TChad
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To: BurgerAndFries

Hawking is Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered...


67 posted on 05/30/2016 7:24:55 PM PDT by Kickass Conservative (There is nothing Democratic about the Democrat Party. (Or the GOPe))
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To: Carthego delenda est

In Utopia, people in his condition would be considered a drain on Society and eliminated.


68 posted on 05/30/2016 7:26:48 PM PDT by Kickass Conservative (There is nothing Democratic about the Democrat Party. (Or the GOPe))
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To: BurgerAndFries

Hawking should have long ago been recognized as being as disabled in the brain as he is in his body and packed off somewhere out of the public eye. I’m astounded that anyone takes him seriously. He can’t even offer free stuff like Obama, so literally all he has to offer is the high-sounding Tardese that falls out of his ugly mouth, yet somehow he’s billed as a genius.


69 posted on 05/30/2016 7:29:12 PM PDT by Laser_Ray (Another nifty idea)
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To: All

Let me disprove that theorem.

Let the Lowest Common Denominator be x.

Now Donald Trump is y, and Bernie Sanders is z.

zzzzzzzzz.

zzzzzzzzz.

x < y

Ergo your theorem is bunk.


70 posted on 05/30/2016 7:29:52 PM PDT by Peter ODonnell (I've crossed the Rubicon -- God speed Donald Trump (just remember these are two different persons))
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To: Peter ODonnell

“Ergo your theorem is bunk.”

Wow another one of us who spent the night at a Holiday Inn Express..


71 posted on 05/30/2016 7:33:11 PM PDT by montanajoe
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To: montanajoe
Yer welcome, never knew there were so many rocket scientists and theoretical physicists on FR..I’m impressed.

Many of the real scientist types got purged ten years ago.

72 posted on 05/30/2016 7:40:01 PM PDT by ASA Vet (Jus Soli + Jus Sanguinis = NBC)
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To: BurgerAndFries

Is this the disabled one who favored the annihilation of Terri Schiavo, or was it the former Superman star, Christopher Reeve?


73 posted on 05/30/2016 7:41:21 PM PDT by Theodore R. (Trump-Santorum 2016)
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To: BurgerAndFries

Trump is not the only thing that confuses Hawking. I still do not understand why this guy is so venerated.


74 posted on 05/30/2016 7:43:11 PM PDT by DennisR (Look around - God gives countless, indisputable clues that He does, indeed, exist.)
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To: BurgerAndFries

Use your fantastic knowledge to develop a weapon that we could drop in the middle east and kill only muslim terrorists....how hard could that be???


75 posted on 05/30/2016 7:45:16 PM PDT by terycarl (COMMON SENSE PREVAILS OVER ALL)
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To: montanajoe

Dark matter is matter moviing faster than the speed of light.

...but you knew that.


76 posted on 05/30/2016 7:46:13 PM PDT by Eddie01
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To: BurgerAndFries

I heard Hawking a couple years ago - he was talking that AGW is causing damage and “we must do something.”

This was right in the middle of the coldest, longest winter here in MI ever recorded.

[CLICK] into the dustbin of history.


77 posted on 05/30/2016 7:53:42 PM PDT by quantim (Victory is not relative, it is absolute.)
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To: BurgerAndFries

Hawkings is now a political expert? Everyone has an opinion and Hawkings is free and worth every penny in this case.


78 posted on 05/30/2016 8:00:18 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: BurgerAndFries; flaglady47
I don't know of anyone uglier both in face and ideology than this old commie he-hag.

(Photo at link).

Leni

79 posted on 05/30/2016 8:03:08 PM PDT by MinuteGal ( GO, TRUMP, GO !!!)
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To: Eddie01

...but you knew that.

Actually I subscribe to a cosmic variant of the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle..so no I don’t know that.


80 posted on 05/30/2016 8:05:13 PM PDT by montanajoe
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